install ubuntu 8.10 w/ bios rev F.04 (recommended method)

[Lebenskuenstler]

How did you get 3D working on this machine with Fedora? Just curious, I'm sorta wanting to try another distro but the fact that Via has (had?) only released drivers for Ubuntu and SLED kept me running Ubuntu.

I have an HowTo for installing Fedora: http://hp2133.umsw.de

If i have some time, I 'll care about the layout, which is currently really ugly

In essence, I did only filtered the necessary command of VIA Ubuntu Install script.

[earlycj5]

Interesting. Thanks!

[Geoff 42]

I could not get the bios ISO to work so here is a link to the file on HP's site

http://tinyurl.com/87rmnh

You can use it to create a floppy a usb disk or a CD iso
I used a usb disk with no problem

After several attempts to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my new 2133,
I spotted messages about downgrading the bios from 05 to 04.
As I have no CD, I followed the instructions for setting up a
USB stick on a windows machine. This appears to work, but
when I transfer it to the 2133, it does not boot.

I press F9 at power-on and select the memory stick. I get
the message "Invalid system disk". I take it that this means
that the memory stick is not bootable, although it is the
same one which I used for installing Ubuntu on an Asus EeePC
and my attempts on the 2133.

Have I misunderstood the instructions?

Geoff

[Geoff 42]

I have now borrowed a USB CD/DVD drive.
On my Win XP box I burned the ISO from the HP download sp40310.exe
onto a CD, using InfraRecorder.
The 2133 booted cleanly from the USB CD/DVD drive and installed
F.04 as the bios.
I am now setting up my USB memory stick to install
Xubuntu 8.10.

Geoff

[Geoff 42]

I am now setting up my USB memory stick to install
Xubuntu 8.10.

Which I can report worked nicely.

Geoff

[Geoff 42]

I press F9 at power-on and select the memory stick. I get
the message "Invalid system disk".
Geoff

Over on the #! site reports that you can only flash the bios
with a small USB memory stick, probably not more than 1 GB.

Geoff

[earlycj5]

I press F9 at power-on and select the memory stick. I get
the message "Invalid system disk".
Geoff

Over on the #! site reports that you can only flash the bios
with a small USB memory stick, probably not more than 1 GB.

Geoff

No, I have used one of my 2GB sticks to do this.

[Geoff 42]

Over on the #! site :-
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/13136/#p13136
m0nk3ym4n reports that you can only flash the bios
with a small USB memory stick, probably not more than 1 GB.

No, I have used one of my 2GB sticks to do this.

Mine failed with a 4 GB stick, so maybe there is a 2 GB limit.
It seems to boot FreeDos. Does that have some file system limit?

Geoff

[tomski]

Unfortunately, the link to the F.04 Bios iso file does not work. Could anyone upload this file? This would be great, as HP only provides a Windows .exe file.

[mikez]

Over on the #! site :-
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/13136/#p13136
m0nk3ym4n reports that you can only flash the bios
with a small USB memory stick, probably not more than 1 GB.

No, I have used one of my 2GB sticks to do this.

Mine failed with a 4 GB stick, so maybe there is a 2 GB limit.
It seems to boot FreeDos. Does that have some file system limit?

Geoff

It may be using MS-FAT-16 rather than MS-FAT-32 for the file system -
That would limit the size of the file system.
Build one - check the file system type.