Ubuntu Edgy Eft and Aspire 9300

After killing all the bugs on the current project, I got a time finally to install linux on my new acer. The distro that I chose is the newest Ubuntu Linux Edgy Eft. The installation didnt go as smoothly as I expected, since they combined the installer and the live cd into one. I prepared my partition first before I boot from the live cd. 2Gb for SWAP partition and only 8 Gb for Linux ext3 partition. Not that much huh.. well, I will only used my Linux box for the development of the project only and not for my main operating system anyway.. so I guess 10 Gig will be more than enough (I do need my photoshop and dreamweaver though!!).

After I prepared my partition, I boot from the live cd. It went smoothly, it recognized my graphic card, and my wifi seems to work.. (wooohooo…!!). After that, I hit the install button on the desktop for launching the installation wizard (yep.. no more text based installation thingy..). It will ask you for your name, blahh blahh.., and then the fun part begins…., For partitioning the disk, I chose the manually edit partition so I can have a full control of my partitions. I assigned the root to my newly created ext3 partition, the swap partition and assigned mount points to the rest of my harddisk (Windows). But for some reasons, it gave an error that I havent assigned the root to any of the partitions.. what??!! Then, I killed the installation wizard and start all over again.. guess what? It still showed me the error.

Then, I chose to use the alternate installation cd (text based installation), just like good ol days!. And this one works seemelesly!! Less than half an hour, fully installed Ubuntu Edgy Eft already running as dual boot on my computer. The next fun thing begun, It didnt give me the right screen resolution (1440×900) and I can only reached 1024×768 top!. Since my acer has nvidia geforce 6100, I downloaded and install the nvidia graphics driver from synaptics package manager. With a help from Sebastian (one of the linux guy at the office) and a little bit of tweaking on the xorg.conf file, .. I got it running with the appropriate screens resolution.

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