Ubuntu 9.04 and Asus EeePC 1000HE, What I Did.

Ubuntu 9.04 eeePC 1000HE Install

What I did with lots of help from the Internet.

I used at least 10 different sources, ranging from personal blogs and message boards to the official Ubuntu site. Help sought ranged from partitioning the hard drive all the way to installing flash and such. I'm posting this in the odd case that someone can use this information, as well as for my own purposes. Enjoy.

Partition the harddrive

I'm quadruple booting on my netbook, so space is limited. After setting up partitions for Windows XP, OS X, and Windows 7 (all primary partitions), I set up the rest of the hard drive as an extended partition and set up logical partitions the following way:

30G Extended Partition
8G ext4 Mount as /
20G ext4 Mount as /home
2G linux-swap

Then booting off the Ubuntu Disc, selected the Live Disc mode (boots into Ubuntu without installing it), and clicked on the Install icon on the dekstop. It's a pretty simple install. The more complicated part is setting up the partitions (making sure they mount at the specific place) but it's pretty much a breeze. Once all the information is entered, it installs and the following is what I did once Ubuntu was installed.

1) System > Administration > Update Manager
Update and install all available updates.

2) Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 5000
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bluez-compat
hcitool scan
You should see something like
Scanning ...
00:1D:D8:98:90:B1 Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000
Copy the hardware address found above.
sudo gedit /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
device 00:1D:D8:98:90:B1 {
name “Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000”;
}
sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
You should see some thing like
* Restarting bluetooth [ OK ]
sudo hidd --search
Searching ...
Connecting to device 00:1D:D8:92:59:F6

3)Install WICD (for using 64Bit WEP)
sudo apt-get install wicd

4) Connect to wireless network (note, I swapped out the default WiFi card with an Apple Airport Broadcom BCM94321MC. This is what I had to do to get it to work)
Open Wicd (I put a shortcut by the Bluetooth and Sounds shortcuts in the notification tray)
Click on Preferences
Under General Settings enter "eth1" (no quotations) where it asks for Wireless Interface
System > Preferences > Startup Applications and remove "Network Manager" from the list.

5) Add repositories
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty universe multiverse
sudo apt-get update

6) Add Codecs
System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
mplayer
mencoder
mplayer-skins (optional)
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs
After installing mplayer files
As of this writing it is essential-20071007.tar.bz2.
Accesories -> Terminal
sudo nautilus
/usr/lib/ and make new folder name it as codecs,
extract all the files to /usr/lib/codecs
System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad,
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

7) Install Flash
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

8) Edit Grub menu.lst
sudo gedit /boot/grub.menu.lst

## ## End Default Options ##

title Microsoft Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Apple OS X Leopard
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Ubuntu 9.04
uuid c7b3a2b3-4e7a-41ce-b1b8-f73bdc827552
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=c7b3a2b3-4e7a-41ce-b1b8-f73bdc827552 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid c7b3a2b3-4e7a-41ce-b1b8-f73bdc827552
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=c7b3a2b3-4e7a-41ce-b1b8-f73bdc827552 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Memtest86+
uuid c7b3a2b3-4e7a-41ce-b1b8-f73bdc827552
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet


The Microsoft Windows option loads the Windows 7 Bootloader, giving the option of booting into XP or 7. Would be nice to just have an option for both on the Grub menu, but it's not a big deal to me. If anyone has an easy way to do this, by all means leave a comment, and I'll try it out.

And there we go. Everything is working... well, I haven't checked the webcam yet or the microphone, so I'll give those a whirl later. Good Luck.

Late.