{"id":113,"date":"2008-07-01T19:36:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T00:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/brain\/dell-inspirion-530n-with-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:57:27","slug":"dell-inspirion-530n-with-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/dell-inspirion-530n-with-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Inspirion 530n with Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a Dell Inspirion 530n with Ubuntu with the following specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspiron 530,Intel Pentium Dual Core processor E2180 (2.00GHz,800FSB)<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 with DVD Playback<\/li>\n<li>2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz<\/li>\n<li>250GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM)<\/li>\n<li>256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT- DDR3<\/li>\n<li>16X DVD+\/-RW Drive<\/li>\n<li>IEEE 1394a ADAPTER<\/li>\n<li>Dell 20in E207WFP Flat Panel Analog and Digital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I immediately upgraded the RAM to 4GB with some cheap Crucial memory from Newegg.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I wanted to install 8.04, just to have the latest version with long-term support.  Also, I wanted to install Ubuntu from scratch so that I could choose the whole-disk encryption option.  I love computer security.<\/p>\n<p>I realized that Dell must have put quite a bit of working into customizing Ubuntu to work with this hardware configuration.  I know they use a non-Ubuntu-supported nvidia driver, and I&#8217;ve read about a couple of Ubuntu bugs for which Dell has included work-arounds in their custom installation.  So, I decided to skip the full-disk encrypt.<\/p>\n<p>I opted for the upgrade to 8.04 with Synaptic package manager.  When the upgrade completed, my computer went into an infinite reboot cycle.  I couldn&#8217;t find anything that looked similar to my issue online, so I restored to the factory installation.<\/p>\n<p>Dell conveniently provides an ISO image of the factory installation.  Humorously, it is 5Gb &#8211; slightly too big to burn to a DVD.  The restore partition worked fine, but if my disk crashes, I&#8217;ll be out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recorded all the <a href=\"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/brain\/ubuntu-710-customizations\/\">modifications I&#8217;ve made to my system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a Dell Inspirion 530n with Ubuntu with the following specs: Inspiron 530,Intel Pentium Dual Core processor E2180 (2.00GHz,800FSB) Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 with DVD Playback 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz 250GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM) 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT- DDR3 16X DVD+\/-RW Drive IEEE 1394a ADAPTER Dell 20in E207WFP Flat Panel Analog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}