ceoxtc
July 25th, 2008, 03:38 AM
I've spent the last two weeks trying to install Ubuntu MID on my Samsung Q1. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong so I'll list my steps here and maybe someone can point me in the right direction:
1) I download the McCaslin install image from here (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mobile/releases/hardy/)
2) I transfer the image to my blank USB thumb drive (2Gb Sandisk) by using the dd command: dd if=<image name> of=/dev/sdb
When I do this and view the thumb drive in file manager, the following files are listed:
ldlinux.sys
rootfs.img
install.sh
bootfs.img
vmlinuz
boot.msg
initrd0.img
3) I plug the thumb drive in the Q1 (after having set the Q1 to boot first from 'removable media' and
4) The Q1 boots from the hard drive, which up until 2 days ago had Vista on it.
Thinking somehow that I need to make the USB drive bootable, I downloaded syslinux and installed the bootloader, which added syslinux.cfg to the file list on the USB drive.
5) When I insert the stick in again and boot, no luck - in either the Q1 or my WinXP PC.
So I hooked up an external DVD burner via USB and installed Ubuntu 8.04 from the liveCD. Now I have Ubuntu on the Q1 with a non-functioning touchpad.
Can anyone tell me why the USB stick won't boot from the USB drive? Is the McCaslin image supposed to be bootable or should I instead by trying to run the install script from a terminal within Ubuntu?
1) I download the McCaslin install image from here (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mobile/releases/hardy/)
2) I transfer the image to my blank USB thumb drive (2Gb Sandisk) by using the dd command: dd if=<image name> of=/dev/sdb
When I do this and view the thumb drive in file manager, the following files are listed:
ldlinux.sys
rootfs.img
install.sh
bootfs.img
vmlinuz
boot.msg
initrd0.img
3) I plug the thumb drive in the Q1 (after having set the Q1 to boot first from 'removable media' and
4) The Q1 boots from the hard drive, which up until 2 days ago had Vista on it.
Thinking somehow that I need to make the USB drive bootable, I downloaded syslinux and installed the bootloader, which added syslinux.cfg to the file list on the USB drive.
5) When I insert the stick in again and boot, no luck - in either the Q1 or my WinXP PC.
So I hooked up an external DVD burner via USB and installed Ubuntu 8.04 from the liveCD. Now I have Ubuntu on the Q1 with a non-functioning touchpad.
Can anyone tell me why the USB stick won't boot from the USB drive? Is the McCaslin image supposed to be bootable or should I instead by trying to run the install script from a terminal within Ubuntu?