One of the most fun things I have done lately is setup the tablet functions on my TC1100, (aka Hal the tablet-y boy).
Having had fun pulling various bits of howtos and other information together, with most of the information from a couple of great entries in the Ubuntu Forums (the TC1100 howto, and the Pen Functions Howto), I thought I might put it all together for my critically unacclaimed (K)Ubuntu 8.04 HP TC1100 Tablet Functions Howto.
So, one of today’s adventures was finally making time to sort out my tablet PC - the magic TC1100 (which is souped up to 100GB hdd, and 1GB ram from original).
The install process took a bit of figuring out. OpenSolaris does NOT like being installed on a fourth or later partition (I had three for Ubuntu previously - / and swap, and of course Windows on the first). So, I deleted Ubuntu and started again, (this is why we back up kids - tar up your home directory, as I do, or use whatever back up method suits:) ).
Now, my 100GB hdd looks like this -
primary partitions: /dev/sda1 Windows XP /dev/sda2 OpenSolaris /dev/sda3 Ubuntu (mounted as / )
extended partition: /dev/sda5 Swap
Next step was working out what boot loader I would use. OpenSolaris uses a very modified GRUB (GRand Unified Boot loader) to cope with zfs, so I would need to invoke that. From reading, I knew the preferred method was to install Ubuntu last, or reinstall the Ubuntu Grub, to then call the OpenSolaris Grub. That is the path I elected to choose - the one of least resistance:)
Therefore, with XP already installed, I installed OpenSolaris, checked both O/S booted fine, then installed Ubuntu. I checked that booted XP & Ubuntu fine, and then while in Ubuntu, modified that Grub to call up OpenSolaris Grub, (no modifications are necessary to the OpenSolaris Grub).
The file is /boot/grub/menu.lst, and the relevant parts are below.
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1
title OpenSolaris root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 savedefault makeactive
Now I can boot into OpenSolaris in a slightly fiddly but working fine kind of way:) I will post more about my adventures as I go…next is reinstalling all the tablet niceties I had working so well on previous Ubuntu install.
Oh, and Kde4. Not a Gnome type, it is really a personal preference thing, so I tend to move to Kubuntu asap. Especially as I have Gnome to play with in OpenSolaris - or at least until I get Kde4 on that, too;)
…the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
A great review of ScribeFire, my blogging tool of choice. Especially on the eeePC this extension to Firefox is feature rich and highly customisable. I have used on FF2, and now on the FF3beta5 I am running on the eee at the moment:) My blog is a Wordpress blog, hosted on Dreamhost.
And to my Southern friend YatPundit, thanks for the pointer to a site I will be following with interest.
Good geek sites are highly valued here:)
Well, I have been afk for a bit, because, well, I needed some downtime.
But, during said time, I got a new shiny!!!!
Yes, my brother gave me the amazing gift of the gorgeous 4Gb Black eeePC. It rocks.
I plan to blog about my experiences with the new Hal. For yes, this little laptop has won my heart to the point where he is now my primary device. Welcome to Hal4500.
Things learnt so far:
eeeuser.com has the best tips, programs, guides, forums etc. A lot of links will come from there:)
Add more Xandros repositories. I also pinned the system, due to a few other odd repositories I added/will be adding.Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list. deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701 p701 main
deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701/en p701 main
deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free
deb http://dccamirror.xandros.com/dccri/ dccri-3.0 main
deb http://www.geekconnection.org/ xandros4 main
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/eeepcrepos/ p701 main etch
deb http://ftp.linux.hr/asuseee/xandros/ binary/
deb-src http://ftp.linux.hr/asuseee/xandros/ source/ Don’t forget the key for the main repo, but there is one that doesn’t have a key, ignore it griping.
Emeditor is easier than hand editing the menu. Trust me. I don’t mind using vim to do it, a lot of you will find the gui easier.
SDCards. Find the biggest you can for storage. SDHC is cheaper than SD atm. I am looking at 8Gb for about AU$70.00. Hint - camera shops have them cheaper than computer shops.
It is relatively simple to customise the webmail for using your Google App domain. Hint - change the link in Emeditor for Gmail, or add another one in.
Need a blogging tool. Drivel is basic, but no success posting yet. Want something I can use offline.
Wow,cool!!! I never heard of this one - but very glad to include it in honour roll of computers:)
The CSIRAC Story “The honour of building the first modern computer went to the British, when ‘Baby’ computed its first result on 21 June 1948, in Manchester.
During this period, a young English scientist in Sydney had already been planning the development of a machine to bring Australia into the computer age…”
