{"id":1071,"date":"2012-09-03T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2012-09-03T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T21:33:26","slug":"thinkpad-t60-new-ubuntu-desktop-12-04-1-lts-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Thinkpad T60 New Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1 LTS Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already got a partition set up for the installation, \/dev\/sda7, which was the upgraded Ubuntu 12 version I&#8217;m not happy with.<\/p>\n<p>The first step is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/download\/help\/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu\">create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu 12 on it<\/a> using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/download\/desktop\">Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS ISO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The USB booted up into a Ubuntu installation with an icon on the desktop to install Ubuntu.  I used \/dev\/sda7 which was the previous upgrade from 10 to 12 that I wasn&#8217;t happy with.  The boot loader will be installed to \/dev\/sda as before.  I added a separate 2 GB swap partition different than that used by Ubuntu 10.<\/p>\n<p>The new system booted pretty quickly, but of course, I don&#8217;t have all my stuff on it yet.   On to the check list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu 10 still works<\/li>\n<li>Windows XP still works<\/li>\n<li>Wireless networking works<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl-Alt-Delete brings up the dialog box (by default!)<\/li>\n<li>Suspend works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While checking out the system, Upgrade Manager started itself to look for updates, but it crashed.  I sent the crash report in and restarted it and installed the 20 updates that were waiting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Used the Software Center to install GKrellM, EMacs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Chrome<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~fingerprint\/+archive\/fingerprint-gui\">Fingerprint GUI<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/install\">Dropbox<\/a> and KeePassX.<\/li>\n<li>Fingerprint reader works.<\/li>\n<li>Lexmark Pinnacle Pro901 printer driver&#8211;The Printing application found the printer when I told it I had a network printer and entered its IP address.  It identified the printer as Lexmark Pro800-Pro900, but had no driver for it.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=809\">installed Lexmark&#8217;s (disk space wasting) driver<\/a>.  I chose the 32-bit Postscript PPD for CUPS-based and OpenOffice Printing with Debian-based packaging.  After installing it, I couldn&#8217;t figure out what to do next, so I ran <code>dpkg --contents lexmark-inkjet-legacy-1.0-1.i386.deb<\/code> and saw the file <code>lxPro800-Pro900.ppd<\/code> in <code>\/usr\/local\/lexmark\/v3\/etc<\/code>.  I gave that file to the Printing application with &#8220;supply a PPD file&#8221;.  The test page printed just fine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already got a partition set up for the installation, \/dev\/sda7, which was the upgraded Ubuntu 12 version I&#8217;m not happy with. The first step is to create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu 12 on it using the Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS ISO. The USB booted up into a Ubuntu installation with an icon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}