As you have noticed, installing Ubuntu 11.10 directly on the Toshiba L745D/P745D (A6-3400M) is not possible. There are a few problems that you must first resolve. First of all, the maximum amount of partitions is used – 4. Next, the AMD 6520g video card is not supported by the open source driver. And lastly there are some BIOS bugs that you must work around. Fortunately there is a work around for each problem and below you will find the steps required to get your notebook up and running with Ubuntu.
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