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Installing Skype on eee 1000 running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

I have an eee 1000 netbook running Jaunty netbook remix. Installing and configuring Skype was pretty simple:

Add the Medibuntu repository:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update

Install skype:

sudo aptitude install skype

Video worked out of the box. To configure sound, got to Options -> Sound Devices. Set:
Sound In: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
Sound Out: Pulse
Ringing: Pulse

2009
05/23
CATEGORY
Linux
Ubuntu
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Ubuntu recovery console with no root password

So your Ext3 root partition is corrupted. No matter how you try to log into your system, your system asks you for . But you are a good, obedient user. And you do not have a root password set. You can press , but that just reboots. Are you boned?

No. problem. press ctrl+alt+delete. You will get a messy screen about having trouble launching your X session, but you will get a login towards the bottom of the screen. So just use your normal user login and password. after that, I use
sudo su

2009
01/05
CATEGORY
Ubuntu
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