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Welcome to my page on the Ubuntu Wiki.

I want to record all my steps and experiences installing Ubuntu on my laptop. Hopefully you will find this useful and interesting. Its going myto be a slow process, since I only have occasional evenings after work for this. All the same, the goals are ambitious:
 * AMD64 install.
 * Get every aspect of the hardware working. That's including the modem, firewire, IR, WiFi, suspend, etc.
 * Make a comfortable "home" environment, for surfing, watching movies, IM.
 * Dual boot with Windows, for Windows-only games and occasionally working from home.

The whole time I will always be trying the Ubuntu way first - using the default install and tools, Ubuntu forums. This is my first experience using a Wiki, so I'll be learning as I go. Hopefully there will be an occasional update from anyone who has spotted an error or improvement. The final aim is to have less of a blog, and more of a start-to-finish guide to running this excellent distribution on this excellent laptop.

== About the Amilo A1630 ==

I bought this laptop for its hardware :). Its a early example of a full AMD64 laptop, with a widescreen and Radeon graphics card - what more could you want? Well, actually a bigger harddrive, and more RAM. But otherwise, it was a great deal and I have been happily using it for a year now.

The system specs are on the Fujitsu-Siemens site at [http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/products/mobile/notebooks/amilo_a.html].

It comes with Windows XP (SP2), and a couple of useful bits of Windows software like Nero.

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[Sat 5 Nov 12:00 TS] Next update: hardware details, default win install.

INSTALLING UBUNTU BREEZY ON A FUJITSU-SIEMENS AMILO A1630 (AMD64) LAPTOP

Welcome to my page on the Ubuntu Wiki.

I want to record all my steps and experiences installing Ubuntu on my laptop. Hopefully you will find this useful and interesting. Its going myto be a slow process, since I only have occasional evenings after work for this. All the same, the goals are ambitious:

  • AMD64 install.

  • Get every aspect of the hardware working. That's including the modem, firewire, IR, WiFi, suspend, etc.

  • Make a comfortable "home" environment, for surfing, watching movies, IM.
  • Dual boot with Windows, for Windows-only games and occasionally working from home.

The whole time I will always be trying the Ubuntu way first - using the default install and tools, Ubuntu forums. This is my first experience using a Wiki, so I'll be learning as I go. Hopefully there will be an occasional update from anyone who has spotted an error or improvement. The final aim is to have less of a blog, and more of a start-to-finish guide to running this excellent distribution on this excellent laptop.

About the Amilo A1630

I bought this laptop for its hardware :). Its a early example of a full AMD64 laptop, with a widescreen and Radeon graphics card - what more could you want? Well, actually a bigger harddrive, and more RAM. But otherwise, it was a great deal and I have been happily using it for a year now.

The system specs are on the Fujitsu-Siemens site at [http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/products/mobile/notebooks/amilo_a.html].

It comes with Windows XP (SP2), and a couple of useful bits of Windows software like Nero.

[Sat 5 Nov 12:00 TS] Next update: hardware details, default win install.

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