{"id":8433,"date":"2013-04-14T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T22:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=8433"},"modified":"2013-04-14T18:29:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T22:29:01","slug":"ubuntu-on-the-samsung-series-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/14\/ubuntu-on-the-samsung-series-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu on the Samsung Series 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Late 2008 MacBook was getting a little slow, so I went laptop shopping. I ended up with the Samsung Chronos 7 (<a title=\"NP700Z5CH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/ca\/consumer\/office\/mobile-computing\/notebook\/NP700Z5C-S04CA-spec\" rel=\"nofollow\">NP700Z5CH<\/a>). Under my budget, but met my spec in every way.<\/p>\n<p>Installing Ubuntu was a minor trial, but it works, and has preserved the Win 8 (blecch!) dual-boot. If it helps anyone, the procedure I followed was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Updated the BIOS, made a recovery DVD and shrank the Windows partition using the DISKPART app (which reminds me so much of the old VMS admin tools).<\/li>\n<li>Broadly following the <a title=\"UEFI\" href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/UEFI?highlight=%28%28UEFI%29%29\" rel=\"nofollow\">UEFI<\/a> instructions, I got the 64-bit <a title=\"Linux-Secure-Remix\" href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/linux-secure\/files\/?source=navbar\" rel=\"nofollow\">Linux-Secure-Remix<\/a> ISO and wrote it to a USB stick with <a title=\"UNetbootin\" href=\"http:\/\/unetbootin.sourceforge.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">UNetbootin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the BIOS (F2 when the Samsung logo shows), I disabled Secure Boot and Fast Boot, but kept EFI on, as Win8 won&#8217;t work without it. I also disabled (temporarily, with Shift+1) the HD and Windows Boot Manager from the boot sequence, moving USB boot up to first place.<\/li>\n<li>After trying Ubuntu from the LiveUSB, I installed it. Once it had finished and rebooted, I re-enabled HD and Windows Boot Manager in the BIOS.<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu would work fine from here, but to restore Win8 to a usable (?) state, I had to reboot with the LiveUSB image and run <a title=\"Boot-Repair\" href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/Boot-Repair\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boot-Repair<\/a> as suggested in the UEFI documentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fan maybe runs a little more than it should, but everything I&#8217;ve tried works. There&#8217;s clearly been a lot of work done on Samsung\/UEFI support recently, as any of the web tutorials I found from even 8 months ago recommended really arcane stuff I didn&#8217;t actually need.<\/p>\n<p>(abstracted from my Reddit query: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SuggestALaptop\/comments\/1c7b2x\/linuxfriendly_futureproof_macbook_replacement\/\">Linux-friendly future-proof MacBook replacement [13-15&#8243;, CA, $1600] : SuggestALaptop<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Late 2008 MacBook was getting a little slow, so I went laptop shopping. I ended up with the Samsung Chronos 7 (NP700Z5CH). Under my budget, but met my spec in every way. Installing Ubuntu was a minor trial, but it works, and has preserved the Win 8 (blecch!) dual-boot. If it helps anyone, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2657,270,2658,2656,305,268],"class_list":["post-8433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-efi","tag-linux","tag-reddit","tag-samsung","tag-ubuntu","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8435,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions\/8435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}