Ubuntu 7.10(Gutsy Gibbon) Setup
A. A very simple Boot Setup
| Parameter | Function |
| splash | boot with a startup image |
| quiet | keep boot message from displaying |
| vga=xxx | setup console frame buffer, detail in section B. vga=normal, keep normal frame buffer vga=ask, ask you which mode to choose when boot. *This argument is not supported by default setup of Ubuntu 7.10. |
B. Setup Console Frame buffer
If you suffer from 80x25 console and you want a higher resolution, look here:
This guide of setup Console Framebuffer comes from http://www.savvyadmin.com/2007/12/25/console-framebuffer-in-ubuntu
$ echo "fbcon" | sudo tee -a /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
2. Remove (or comment out) "vesafb" from blacklisted modules in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.
3. Add the desired framebuffer variable to the default kernel options section in /boot/grub/menu.lst. For 1024x768, the string should look like the following.
| Colour depth | 640x480 | 800x600 | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 | 1400x1050 | 1600x1200 |
| 8 (256) | 769 | 771 | 773 | 775 | | |
| 15 (32K) | 784 | 787 | 790 | 793 | | |
| 16 (65K) | 785 | 788 | 791 | 794 | 834 | 884 |
| 24 (16M) | 786 | 789 | 792 | 795 | | |
5. If Usplash is configured for a higher resolution than your framebuffer, it will appear off-centered. So adjust /etc/usplash.conf to use the same resolution.
yres=768
6. Update initramfs to rebuild the initrd image.
C. Chinese Font Support
$ sudo cp (Windows Fonts) /usr/share/fonts/winfont
$ cd /usr/share/fonts/winfont
$ sudo mkfontscale
$ sudo mkfontdir
$ sudo fc-cache
3. Install Chinese X11 font support (needs test whether this is required after last step)
4. Setup preferred fonts by editing /etc/fonts/language-selector.conf
Here is a part of my own setup, the fonts before SimSun is used for other languages.
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
<family>DejaVu Serif</family>
<family>SimSun</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
<family>SimSun</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
<family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
<family>SimSun</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
Window Title font: Tahoma Bold(10)
Fixed Width font: Courier New(10)
Rendering: Monochrome
6. Restart X(Ctrl + Alt + Backspace) to make all setup take effect.
D. Install a Compact theme for GNOME
It is obviously take up too much space and leave working area too small.
After hunting around, I found a very compact GNOME theme.
Download & install it here: http://martin.ankerl.com/files/ClearlooksCompact.tar.bz2
Thanks Martin Ankerl's great work!
E. Install & Setup Firewall - GuardDog
2. Open GuardDog, it may report missing file when open it for the first time, leave it.
3. GuardDog default has no rule, you must know exactly which rules you need, here is some guide.
Open tab Advanced, check 'Enable DHCP on Interfaces'.
4. Add New Protocol for QQ(the most widely used IM client in China)
Open tab Protocol, enable QQ protocol.
5. Press apply to take effect
F. Install IME - SCIM
1. To install the languages you plan to use along with their input method engines go to:
System -> Administration -> Language Support
and select the languages you need.
2. If you want scim to work with programs that use Qt you need to install scim-qtimm:
QT_IM_MODULE=”scim”
Replace with:
QT_IM_MODULE=”xim”
3. Set scim as default input method
G. Play Real media
$ sudo dpkg -i realplayer_10.0.9-0.1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -r realplayer
2. If RealPlayer freezes or playback is jerky, you should install alsa-oss and setup RealPlayer
If failed to install alsa-oss, reboot as recovery mode and install(run dhclient to get an ip)
if [ -n "$LD_PRELOAD" ]; then
echo "Warning: LD_PRELOAD=/"$LD_PRELOAD/""
fi
and add these after them:
LD_PRELOAD="$LDPRELOAD:/usr/lib/libaoss.so"
export LD_PRELOAD
H. Using the Desktop / LiveCD and Overwriting the Windows bootloader
Using the Desktop/LiveCD and Overwriting the Windows bootloader
Boot from a Live CD and open a terminal. You'll need to run a few commands as root so you can use sudo -i to get a root shell and run them normally instead of using sudo on each of them. Be extra careful when running a root shell, especially for typos !
We'll need to find which partition your Ubuntu system is installed on. Type the command fdisk -l. It will output a list of all your partitions, for example :
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 8 64228+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9 1224 9767520 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 * 1225 2440 9767520 a5 FreeBSD
/dev/hda4 2441 14593 97618972+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 14532 14593 498015 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 2441 14530 97112862 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Here I have three Linux partitions. /dev/hda2 is my root partition, /dev/hda1 is my /boot partition and /dev/hda6 is my /home partitoins. If you only have one, obviously this is the one your Ubuntu system is installed on. If you have more than one and you don't know which one your Ubuntu is installed on, we'll look for it later. First, create a mountpoint for your partition, for example :
$ mkdir /mnt/root
Then mount your partition in it. If you don't know which one it is, then mount any of them, we'll se if it's the correct one.
$ mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/root
Of course, replace /dev/hda2 with the correct name of your partition. You can check if it's the correct one by running ls /mnt/root, which should output something like this :
bin dev home lib mnt root srv usr
boot etc initrd lib64 opt sbin sys var
cdrom initrd.img media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz
If what you have looks not at all like this, you didn't mount the correct partition. Do umount /mnt/root to unmount it and try another one. You also need to mount your /boot partition if you made one, like this :
$ mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/root/boot
To make sure it was the correct one, run ls /mnt/root/boot, which sould output something like this :
config-2.6.18-3-686 initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686.bak System.map-2.6.18-3-686
grub lost+found vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686
initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686 memtest86+.bin
Once again, if what you have doesn't fit, unmount it and try another partition.
Now that everything is mounted, we just need to reinstall GRUB :
$ grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/root /dev/hda
If you got BIOS warnings try:
$ grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/root /dev/hda --recheck
Of course, replace /dev/hda with the location you want to install GRUB on. If all went well, you should see something like this :
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
(hd0) /dev/hda
Now you can reboot and the GRUB menu should appear. If you see a warning message regarding XFS filesystem, you can ignore it.