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Ubuntu 10.04 does not work out of the box on the Thinkpad X220, and Ubuntu | Ubuntu 10.04 does not work out of the box on the Thinkpad X220, and Ubuntu | ||
11.04 has too many annoying changes (and some irritating bugs that affect | 11.04 has too many annoying changes (and some irritating bugs that affect | ||
| − | usability). To make matters worse, the X220 does not accept a standard | + | usability) to be considered as an option. To make matters worse, the X220 does not accept a standard notebook drive (it needs one of the new 7mm slim drives), so one can't move the old drive to the new laptop (I think the Thinkpad engineers screwed up big-time here, but that's just my opinion). |
| − | notebook drive, so one can't move the old drive to the new laptop. | ||
| − | + | Anyway, if you already have a working Ubuntu 10.04 installation on your machine | |
and want to move it to your new X220 here's a simple recipe: | and want to move it to your new X220 here's a simple recipe: | ||
Revision as of 16:59, 14 June 2011
Ubuntu 10.04 does not work out of the box on the Thinkpad X220, and Ubuntu 11.04 has too many annoying changes (and some irritating bugs that affect usability) to be considered as an option. To make matters worse, the X220 does not accept a standard notebook drive (it needs one of the new 7mm slim drives), so one can't move the old drive to the new laptop (I think the Thinkpad engineers screwed up big-time here, but that's just my opinion).
Anyway, if you already have a working Ubuntu 10.04 installation on your machine and want to move it to your new X220 here's a simple recipe:
- boot the X220 with a Ubuntu 11.04 CD
- partition the disk in the X220 to your liking
- transfer your existing installation to the X220 disk over the network; I prefer using netcat + dump/restore, but rsync will work too
- chroot to your new installation
- add the following at the top of your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty main restricted universe
- as root, run the following:
apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-generic-pae linux-firmware
- make sure you install a boot loader in the new disk
And that's all it takes. You'll end up with your existing 10.04 installation running a recent kernel that supports the hardware on the X220.
Graphics
The recipe above will use the framebuffer for your graphic session. It is recommended that you install the intel driver from glasen as described here
