Archivo Mensual de julio, 2010

Installing Linux on a Toshiba NB305

I’ve just written this installation guide. It’s amazing how compatible Linux is with such a new hardware.

http://www.immv.es/index.php?page=linux-on-a-toshiba-nb305

I’m not extremely happy with battery life, though, but it might get better with newer kernels or disabling some tweaks that are now needed for suspend to work.

julio 25, 2010

Solved: Unetbootin won’t boot my netbook (Toshiba NB305)

After lots of unsuccessful attempts trying to boot several Linux distributions via a USB drive using unetbootin, I solved the issue by copying menu.c32 over vesamenu.c32 on the root folder of the USB media. So the steps should be:

  1. Create your USB boot media with unetbootin
  2. Copy menu.c32 to your USB media with name vesamenu.c32, i.e.
    cd /usr/share/syslinux
    cp menu.c32 /media/yourUSBdrive/vesamenu.c32
  3. Good luck!

If you don’t have the file above, install the packaget syslinux on your system.

Works for me, no liability accepted in case you break something! ;)

julio 23, 2010