I worked all this out with a lot of help from the tutorial on pilot-link.org – changing things to suit the Centro’s slightly different interface, and putting in Ubuntu 8.10 specific stuff.

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Note: this post is a bit of a work in progress – I hope to add a section on external monitor support soon.

This is a brief guide to installing Intrepid on an HP Pavillion DV4T laptop. It is NOT a step-by-step guide, I will just list the steps specific to this laptop. I assume that you already know how to install Ubuntu and configure disk partitions. If you need a more in-depth way to install and configure Ubuntu, please read Getting Started With Ubuntu.

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