So, I was able to eventually install Obuntu by extracting the file system tarball to the 2Gb partition created on my memory card.
@crazydog, I have also been working on screen rotation. As well as the change to xorg.conf, replace the contents of /etc/pointercal with:
Code:
0 65536 8 -65504 0 53726756 65536
This adjusts the touchscreen orientation to landscape using the linear module of tslib.