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BoyBlunder
Sep 17, 2008

Farking Bastage posted:

I have some Dell 6400 laptops that are pieces of poo poo and pretty much flake out on windows( the speedstep bug). Trying this out on them to repurpose them since I found a VMWare view PCOIP client for ubuntu.

I've never deployed/cloned much of anything linux before( sure as hell not setting all of these up by hand). Do you typically use clonezilla?

If it's all the same hardware I don't see why it wouldn't work.

/etc/fstab might need some futzing around though with UIDs for hard disks, but I'm not sure.

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BoyBlunder
Sep 17, 2008

you ate my cat posted:

Somehow I completely forgot about being able to switch to a terminal, and that does work fine. While doing some looking on an unrelated issue, I ran into a bug report for this same issue. It looks like it's related to Intel drivers.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/966744

Also looks like restarting lightdm will put you back to a usable desktop, and is at least faster than restarting the whole machine.

This is exactly what I've been doing on my x61.

- Boot into failsafe terminal
- sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart

Login and all works fine. It's a bummer though when Chrome won't recover any open tabs.

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