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Started 1 month ago by nickitson
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nickitson
Member

Hi,

I have found bits of information relevant to my problem in these forums, but nothing quite simple enough and broad enough for me to follow to success I'm afraid. Apologies for covering familiar ground again.

As a newcomer I am suffering the frustrations of getting to grips with linux. I have an AAO with a 16Gb SSD and 1Gb RAM. I have got Linpus to where I want it and particularly like the speed at boot. However, I have been following KUKI and really like what I see on the live install. I have attempted a full install to my aao but have run in to issues with the disc partitioning, purely from ignorance on my part.

I would choose to have Kuki fully install itself and overwrite linpus, but I note I will end up with an ext3 file system, not ext 2 as recommended. I imagine I will also end up with a swap partition, which I believe may not be necessary given the 1Gb RAM? I guess this is because the default arrangement is geared towards HDDs. If I go for a manual install, the partitioner shows me three partitions on the disc, including swap, plus a little free space. I've not managed to reconfigure all this and make a successful install by my own devices. (I did get Kuki to boot once from the SSD, but the subsequent update process appeared to run out of install space). There is a location on the SSD for my own data files under linpus, but I choose to store my information on an additional 8Gb SD card in the left hand slot, so no danger of loosing anything (I hope).

Can anyone please point me to a concise source for the linux challenged, or offer a view on how to manually partition the SSD (sizes, mount points etc), which will allow me to make an optimum installation of Kuki. Any and all help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Posted 1 month ago #
zorofroozo
Support Team

Now you firstly need to make a choice, do you want to be able to hibernate your system or not? Hibernation stores al data in the swap space and shutsdown your pc. Starting up again brings you to the last state of the system. This does put more wear on your ssd.

1) Do you want hibernation?

A) yes: you need a swap space. 300mb should be enough, 500 to be on the safe side.
B) no: no need for swap space.

2) What file system to choose?

A) only one real option here, use ext3, this is ext2 with journaling. You simply need to edit the fstab file to get ext2. You do this by changing the word ext3 to ext2.
--> the reason behind this is that journaling keeps track of copy/move operations and therefore your ssd will have more work, as thus get more wear. You can 'safely' go whithout journaling.

3) The install process. Be sure to remove your sdcard as to be sure you don't erasse it. Insert your usb stick and boot up your system, press F12 to boot from usb. When you install you will be given the chance to automatically partition your system. We don't want to do that. Choose "Manual edit partition table" from the menu.

(I'm looking for my usb stick so I can't give you step by step instruction at this very moment, but the information below should suffice.)

Now, you want to remove all partitions. And create one big partition with the ext2 filesystem. Then we also need to define a mountpoint. / whould be the correct choice. Accept these changes and install kuki on your ssd.

if this is unclear, let me know and I'll write a more complete guide when I've found my usbstick;)

running Jollicloud and Kuki Linux 2.8 final on a AAO ZG5 120gb HD, 1gb ram (labeled by shop as AAO 150 Ab)

Posted 1 month ago #
nickitson
Member

zorofroozo you are most kind. Thanks for these simple instructions. I will now have another go!

Posted 1 month ago #
Counter
Member

Hi. Sorry but a complete linux novice. Tryed the above procedure on aspire one with 16gig SSD. while installing got an error message saying file system corrupted and that i need to run something line ex2??? to check the disk. Not sure what to do to run a disk checking program or where to get this. Still have laptop with XP beside the netbook so have access to internet. Does Kuki have this disk checker built in or do I need to download it. If so can I put in onto the same USB stick used to load linux onto the netbook? Thanks for any help you may be able to give. Kuki looks great by the way looking forward to eventually getting it going though from the SSD.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
zorofroozo
Support Team

@Counter: did you try reinstalling kuki? You whould need to choose ext2 as filesystem because you are using an ssd. This reduces wear.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Counter
Member

Hi Zorofroozo,
I tried to follow video to do install. Got as far as partitioning screen chose advanced option to be able to choose EXT2 file system. Then it started to do it and crashed saying error on disk and to please run a disk check. I could not and did not know how to do this anyway. So I tryed to install again and chose use the whole disk option and let it run. I then went back and did install again when it finished formating and preparing the disk. This time I chose advanced option and sucessfully chose EXT2 option and Kuki installed OK. Job done. Got there in the end. Please note have only being learning linux from an old red hat book for a week! I have got rid of the XP completely and don't need it anyway. I do need to play CBT Nugget Cisco training video's I have for CCNA training. They play in realplayer in Windows. The Movie player in Kuki only plays the sound when I tryed. I now need to know how to load the video codec for .WMV files. I have downloaded a Codec pack but not installed it yet. I need to unzip an I supose I will need to manually put codecs somewhere???? If you have any tips of how or where i need to put them would be much appriciated. Thanks. PS. I have read history on Wiki to get started in Linux and after a week or so it seems i need to learn Vi or VIM which says it has tutorial as well. Can I do this from Kuki? Thanks.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Counter
Member

PS - How do I check if I have EXT2 file system running. I did go into a file and could see a line mentioning EXT2 but not really sure what file system I have. Is there any easy way to check file system and also what hardware I have installed? Thanks.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
leak
Administrator

cat /etc/fstab or just issue sudo mount.

the / is the root partition and it should say what type of fs it has.

cheers

Posted 2 weeks ago #
zorofroozo
Support Team

And concerning the .wmv video format: mplayer should be able to play this. if not you can convert those files with mùencoder. If it's a video in a browser, try opera or firefox

sudo apt-get install mencoder to install mencoder
mencoder infile.wmv -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o outfile.avi to convert your file, be sure to replace the infile with the file you want to convert and the outfile with the filename you want.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
Counter
Member

Thank you Leak and zorofroozo. This is excellent help.

Posted 1 week ago #
leak
Administrator

have you managed to fix your problem Counter? :)

Posted 1 week ago #

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