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Installing Ubuntu Server with Chrome Browser How-To

Create Bootable USB Drive from your Mac

Download Ubuntu Server for amd64 http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server (on a Mac).

Plug in a USB flash drive.

Convert the .iso file to .img using the convert option of hdiutil e.g.,

hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso

Run

diskutil list

again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2).

Run

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN

(replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2).

Execute

sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m

There should be a Mac OS X Finder prompt, at which point you can eject.

References: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx

Boot up Family Room Pro from the USB Stick

Plug in the USB drive, and right after hitting the start button, hit the del key to load up the firmware.

Select the USB key as the first two boot options.

Save & Exit firmware, to boot.

Run Ubuntu Installer

Install linux, and select entire hard drive with LVM. Select 100% of your drive to give it to use.

Select SSH server to install, which makes saving odd video driver issues easier to get to.

Let install finish, and reboot

Fix swap issue (actually a kernel video issue)

Boot into recovery mode (you should have a 2 second chance to select this in grub2), and edit grub settings:

nano /etc/default/grub

(ctrl-o and then ctrl-x to save and quit)

Add nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" lines, e.g.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"

Then run update-grub to tell grub to use these options.

update-grub

References: http://blog.jamesrhall.com/2014/05/update-grub-2-options.html http://blog.jamesrhall.com/2014/04/ubuntu-server-1404-fun.html http://serverfault.com/questions/546079/ubuntu-server-hanging-on-adding-swap

Fix apt-get hanging issue

Edit GAI config (?): open /etc/gai.conf

nano /etc/gai.conf

change line ~54 to uncomment out the following:

precedence ::ffff:0:0/96  100

(ctrl-o and then ctrl-x to save and quit)

References: http://askubuntu.com/questions/574569/apt-get-stuck-at-0-connecting-to-us-archive-ubuntu-com

Reboot

reboot or sudo reboot.

Setup Wifi

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Add

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wpa-ssid <your_router>
wpa-psk <your_wpa_key>

Run

sudo ifup -v wlan0

Update OS

Do the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install NVIDIA Drivers

sudo apt-get install nvidia-331

Install Desktop (xfce4)

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

Install Chrome

Just search it in Firefox.