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Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix (with Jaunty) on an MSI Wind

Written by broderboy on

From: blog.gpowered.net

I recently picked up a MSI Wind Netbook and love the damn thing. Ubuntu Netbook Remix brings in a great UI which makes navigating on the small screen much easier.I used Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 4 as the base install, mainly because I didn't want to go through the trouble of converting my ext3 partitions to ext4 when it comes out on April 23rd, and the driver support is more complete. I haven't had many problems with it aside from a few random firefox crashes.

We're going to make a bootable USB stick to install Ubuntu
On a separate machine, Download the cd image. If you want to use 8.10, get the iso here
if you are already using an Ubuntu install of 8.10 or higher, skip to step 11
burn the image to a cd
Boot to the cd, do not install, load the demo OS
click System->Administration->Create a USB startup disk
point it to either the cd in your drive, or the iso
point to the correct USB stick
the rest of the settings can stay default
click Make Startup Disk
Insert the usb drive into your wind, power it on, and hit delete to go into the bios, change the first boot device to USB Drive
save and exit the bios
If the wind boots off of the USB stick correctly, you should see the same screen as when you had booted off the cd
Install Ubuntu
I made my partitions as follows:
|30 gig recovery partition|20 gig XP partition|15 Gig Ext4 Ubuntu Partition|4 gig swap partition|the rest of the drive as an ext4 partition
That last partition is where I will mount my home directory, as well as mount from windows xp using ext2fs (I havn't actually tried this yet)
Add the netbook remix repositories to your system. This can be be done in synaptic or by typing the following into a terminal
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu intrepid main
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install go-home-applet
sudo apt-get install window-picker-applet
sudo apt-get install maximus
sudo apt-get install human-netbook-theme
Select the "Human Netbook Theme" in System Preferences>Apperance
go into System Preferences-> sessions->startup programs and confirm that "Maximus" and "window-picker-applet" are thre
Disable Compiz Effects System Preferences->Appearance->None

This is what is required to get netbook remix running, I continued with the following to tweak it some more
Delete the bottom panel by right clicking on it
Delete all the applets on the top panel by right clicking on them
Add applets to the top panel so it ends up like:
Window Picker Applet | Trash Can |Notification Area | MixerApplet | Clock
I also made alt+q the hotkey to show the desktop, makes navigating to it faster. Another option is the show desktop applet button that can be added to the top bar. Preferences->keyboard shortcuts->"Hide all normal windows....."

More info is available here.

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