{"id":406,"date":"2006-05-03T21:34:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T02:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/03\/ubuntu-510-on-the-ibm-thinkpad-r51"},"modified":"2006-05-24T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T02:28:54","slug":"ubuntu-510-on-the-ibm-thinkpad-r51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/03\/ubuntu-510-on-the-ibm-thinkpad-r51","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 5.10 on the IBM Thinkpad R51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On another partition, I popped Ubuntu 5.10 on the Thinkpad R51. I figured I need to eat some of my own dogfood, and give it more use. Here are some notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installation went smoothly, installing side-by-side with FreeBSD. It however, didn&#8217;t write to GRUB that FreeBSD actually exists, and use that as an option for booting. It also, didn&#8217;t give me an option (or I missed it?) to say if I didn&#8217;t want it to install the bootloader. Anyways, in \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst, add:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>title FreeBSD<br \/>\nroot (hd0,0,a)<br \/>\nkernel \/boot\/loader<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My WiFi (ipw2100) actually just works. Ubuntu includes the firmware it&#8217;d seem, which explains why RMS doesn&#8217;t think Ubuntu is free software.<\/li>\n<li>96.9MB of updates were waiting for me the moment I logged into GNOME. The kernel update broke around 50%, but I was amazed to see it <em>resume<\/em> the download from there. Is this some dpkg\/apt cleverness that we could use in rpm\/yum?<\/li>\n<li>I tried to install something (gforge-*), and apt barfed. 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