Jason Golod Blogs » debian http://www.golod.com One man's quest for global domination Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:09:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a Thinkpad x22 http://www.golod.com/installing-ubuntu-810-on-a-thinkpad-x22/ http://www.golod.com/installing-ubuntu-810-on-a-thinkpad-x22/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:59:22 +0000 Jason http://www.golod.com/?p=517

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For those of you trying to install Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad x22 or X2x series laptop, you will need to hit F6 and then enter vga=771 and then press enter when the installer menu comes up. I ended up finding success using the “Ubuntu 8.10 Alternate CD” ISO. The Thinkpad laptops’ video doesn’t play ...

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For those of you trying to install Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad x22 or X2x series laptop, you will need to hit F6 and then enter vga=771 and then press enter when the installer menu comes up. I ended up finding success using the “Ubuntu 8.10 Alternate CD” ISO. The Thinkpad laptops’ video doesn’t play nice with the Debian/Ubuntu installer, but using the vga=771 flag makes it all good in the hood.

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