Sager NP9262 and Ubuntu 8.10

[isg0nnarain]

Any Sager NP9262 owners having trouble installing the latest linux OS such as Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10? I have wasted about 6 cds just on Ubuntu alone.

If no, please tell me what you did to have it working.

If yes, are you able to run 8.04 or an earlier ver of a linux os?

If you are able to run 8.04, were you able to install it?

If you installed it, is it your main or OS, part of dual boot or part of a tri boot?

If tri boot, did you install it on a separate hard drive within your laptop?

If yes, how did you do so? Please tell me for I have been trying to run Ubuntu for the past week.

Please check this site out, it details the exact problem I have and been trying to solve.

http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?p=30360#post30360

If anyone has any idea on how to fix this please post a reply.

Thx.

[Justin_W@XoticPC]

A good person to talk with would be Zatara214 (http://www.xoticpcforums.com/member.php?u=9040) as he's played around with a couple different versions of linux. Reference a thread here (http://www.xoticpcforums.com/showthread.php?p=10964#post10964)

[Zatara214]

Any Sager NP9262 owners having trouble installing the latest linux OS such as Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10? I have wasted about 6 cds just on Ubuntu alone.

If no, please tell me what you did to have it working.

If yes, are you able to run 8.04 or an earlier ver of a linux os?

If you are able to run 8.04, were you able to install it?

If you installed it, is it your main or OS, part of dual boot or part of a tri boot?

If tri boot, did you install it on a separate hard drive within your laptop?

If yes, how did you do so? Please tell me for I have been trying to run Ubuntu for the past week.

Please check this site out, it details the exact problem I have and been trying to solve.

http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?p=30360#post30360

If anyone has any idea on how to fix this please post a reply.

Thx.

Sorry it took me so rediculously long to reply to this, I don't really visit the forums much anymore. I figure I'll change that. Anyway, to answer your questions...

I do not have your model laptop. However, getting linux to work, especially those distros, has become a linear process within the last few years. Fedora is slightly harder to set up than Ubuntu, as Ubuntu has a tool built for it called EnvyNG, which will automatically install your video drivers through a graphical interface. Fedora requires a bit of Terminal work.

I have never tried anything on this laptop other than the newest versions of Linux. I got it in August of last year, and so I waited until newer versions were released to ensure compatibility, which is ALWAYS a good idea, especially if you plan on using Linux as your main OS like I do. Compaitibility is always step number one.

I dual boot. I use Ubuntu 8.10 (soon to be 9.04) as my main OS, but I still have Windows installed. At this point, because of how well I've come to know Linux, and how much more I like it, the only reason I use Windows is to use my download manager, and to use Guitar Pro, which I use to write songs for my band. As soon as I find replacements for these, I plan on getting rid of Windows.

I use my internal hard drive for both operating systems. You can easily install Linux on an external hard drive, or even a flash drive, if you prefer, but it will be significantly slower, depending on the hard drive interface (USB is slower than eSATA, etc). I recommend installing both internally.

To do this, I installed Windows first, taking up the entire hard drive. Once installed, I decided to use Linux. I shrank my Windows partition to half its size, splitting the hard drive in two and creating a separate partition. Once this was done, I installed Ubuntu in the free space of the new partition, and it booted up, no problem.

As for your link, if you plan on tri-booting, I recommend installing Windows XP first. If you install Vista first, and XP over it, the boot sector will not detect windows Vista, and you will only be able to boot into Windows XP until you install Ubuntu (as GRUB can basically boot anything).

Again, sorry for the wait, not even sure if you have the issue anymore, but I figure I might as well answer for anyone else who wants to do this.

[Cortez]

I have only limited experience with Ubuntu on my systems. I will share my experience trying to get Linux running my NP2092. I especially had trouble dual-booting when I usually don't. I abandoned that idea and bought a second drive. If you have a system with 3 drives and want to run some form of RAID you are adding more complications. I managed to install Novell Suse 10 SP2 x64, get up and working without too much problem. However, Suse 11 was just released a few weeks ago and it installed amazingly well on this system. Much better hardware support and general ease of use. I can even open my Microsoft Office 2007 documents with the new version of OpenOffice it comes with. Plus the Nvidia drivers integrate easily during setup and the desktop effects are better than ever. Hope this helps.

[RaderCad]

Any Sager NP9262 owners having trouble installing the latest linux OS such as Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10? I have wasted about 6 cds just on Ubuntu alone.

If no, please tell me what you did to have it working.

If yes, are you able to run 8.04 or an earlier ver of a linux os?

If you are able to run 8.04, were you able to install it?

If you installed it, is it your main or OS, part of dual boot or part of a tri boot?

If tri boot, did you install it on a separate hard drive within your laptop?

If yes, how did you do so? Please tell me for I have been trying to run Ubuntu for the past week.

Please check this site out, it details the exact problem I have and been trying to solve.

http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?p=30360#post30360

If anyone has any idea on how to fix this please post a reply.

Thx.

Well Well.

The first thing I want to say is that I use Kubuntu not Ubuntu and have not have a problem.

I have also heard that there is a problem with some laptops recognizing the Ubuntu CD under 8.04 and 8.1.

Anyway I have been using Kubuntu since I got the beast. It is actually more of a 'nerd' interface with all kinds of goodies to baffle and confuse you. It is installed on it's own drive on my sager 9262, with a dual boot system with Vista 64 Ultimate. Prior to that I installed it on a Toshiba laptop in a partition with windows vista 32 home this was three versions of Kubuntu / Ubuntu ago (two years, not counting updates). We did have problems originally getting all the stuff to work at first as some of the drivers were a problem. We discovered that notebook sound is actually the front channel setting on some machines. Since then I have installed two more releases up to and including 8.1. The releases have been getting more and more things right and configured on install. Then Kubuntu 8.1 installed and came up flawlessly, everything worked. OK there is a lot to pick and choose from, it is a pain to learn another OS, and use the command window (dos like interface) to compile and install some software, but this is often the 'restricted' software.

Restricted software is the stuff you are not really supposed to have in the old country (USA). This is because of copy right infringement problems and testing wireless hubs security and other things like that. Since we have residency in Mexico there is no problem getting it from the University of Mexico's Ubuntu site (hint hint).

I like Kubuntu as I am being re-introduced to Unix, I learned on a command line dumb terminal in college. The Ubuntu distros are getting better and easier to use all the time. You just have to go out and browse the forums to see what the problems are prior to choosing and installing a linux distro. Research means 'to look again'.

Now if they would only come up with a KILLER GAME INTERFACE, they would rule the world.

good luck I hope this helps.