Make a bootable flash drive:
To make a bootable flash drive, you must have another computer with a removable harddrive!!!!
So the procedure is to create a live drive on a cd, or usb device using the iso to usb tool described on the ubuntu website (find link), then take the harddrive out of the computer, plug the usb flash drive in, and boot from the cd, and it will do its thing with the USB flash drive rather than a harddrive. When you set it up you have to choose make your own, since you do not want a swap partition on the flash drive (otherwise you will be playing with gparted to remove the swap, and enlarge the ext4 partiton to takeup the whole flash drive), your goal is to make one large ext4 partition that attaches at /
once you have booted the HP Stream off the usb thumb drive (better be a high speed usb 3 thumb drive) or sd card in a usb reader (are they really faster?)
make it go faster:
move your /tmp directory off the flash drive by adding the below to the end of the fstab http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1054129
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
# ramdisk tmp
none /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=424m 0 0
then either delete swap partition on sd card, or make one on the ssd in the stream 11 by using gparted to reduce the size of the existing windows partitions and add it.. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1588712
mine looks like this in fstab
/dev/mmcblk0p5 none swap sw 0 0
you can turn it on while running with
sudo swapon -v /dev/mmcblk0p5
Turn off datestamping all over the place
http://askubuntu.com/questions/1400/how-do-i-optimize-the-os-for-ssds
p.s. Yes you can watch .ts on this rig with vlc, it just causes the cpu to get burning hot, and there isnt a fan to cool it built into the stream
p.p.s you can get adobe lightroom 4 to run using wine, via the adobe lightroom 5 installer in the playonlinux (play on linux) app (which will install all needed modules for 32 bit wine on a 64 bit ubuntu.. you can find a lightroom 4 in adobes downloads section, all light room updates are complete installers, with a 30 day trial if you don’t have a key for it…
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
Fix WiFi and touch pad issues:
According to http://www.amazon.com/review/R28HR668I6LU8Y/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg6?ie=UTF8&asin=B00NSHLUBU&cdForum=Fx32V5DBEJH4RUL&cdPage=6&cdThread=Tx1I5CUWGAIAGT5&store=pc#wasThisHelpful the way to fix things is:
The wifi issue can be fixed with a new driver by….. You can get the zip from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new [on the right side of the page about half way down is the download button ]. Now, extract the directory, cd to that directory, type “sudo make”, “sudo make install” and reboot. The wifi now seems to be fine.
The mouse might need fixing, but I have noticed that a slow double tap over the right corner (dont press the button) will bring up the right click menu.
will try this from above link soon
To solve the right-click problem I had to modify the settings for synaptics. I copied the file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf. I then changed the line “MatchDriver “synaptics”” with “Option “ClickPad” “on”” and the line “Option “SoftButtonAreas” “50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0” with “Option “SoftButtonAreas” “50% 0 50% 0 0 0 0 0”. After a reboot I could right-click again.
first things to install
goto settings, software & updates and enable the universe and multiverse
in firefox add the noscript plug in to keep scripts from bogging down the ultralight
sudo apt-get gparted
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install Synaptic
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
(according to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1680397 when it gets to the mscorefonts-installer, you should… use the ‘Down’, and ‘left’ button on your keyboard until the “OK” is highlighted.)
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-addons
sudo apt-get install vlc
sudo apt-get install streamtuner2
to get a recent flash player…..
sudo apt-get install gdebi
get in your browse and visit http://www.google.com/chrome
download the linux version of chrome
cd Download
sudo gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Since the above, I’ve changed the window manager to xfwm4, you only want the window manager, not the whole desktop, will add command here soon
