Talk:Ubuntu Gutsy On OLPC XO

Please ask your questions and post comments about installation of Ubuntu on the XO here so that all may benefit :D

- How much of these instructions are Ubuntu-Specific? Could another distribution, such as DSL or Puppy, be made to work the same way?

• I think any recent linux could work. For Ubuntu I used the kernel from the original Red Hat and the modified xorg packages based from Debian as it was being developed to use the hardware display accelleration. Ubuntu had to be modified to use sysvinit instead of upstart because of how the kernel was configured. - Freelikegnu

- So basically If I had a working recent distro on a USB I could do step 7 (copy boot and other files from the XO) and it would most likely work?

When I install sysvinit, at the end I get "init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl". I assume this is related to the note that upstart wants to be PID 1. Is this error important, or can I forge on despite it? 206.248.174.6 11:30, 3 February 2008 (EST)

So I forged on despite the error, and in the middle of installing xorg/xfce I started getting error messages every 2 seconds that start with ata2.00. I assume these are the ata errors that the instructions say are harmless. However, when I try to shutdown (sudo halt) I get "shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl". I rebooted with reboot -f and the ata errors reappear during startup (right after the "starting system log daemon" line, I think). 206.248.174.6 12:05, 3 February 2008 (EST)