Hi Barry, sorry that you had problems. I'll set up a VM with 256MB RAM and try a standard alternate install. I've not had problems with guided - use entire disk, in fact this is my standard choice for when installing. I am assuming that you are using the 12.04 Lubuntu AMD64 Alternate image. Just to completely sure, could you please run the CD self check and ensure that a byte has not escaped / been corrupted from the image on the CD.
Regards, Phill. On 7 February 2013 15:44, Barry Titterton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is my first post on the Lubuntu mailing list. I have been using > Ubuntu for three years but this is my first experience of Lubuntu, and it > didn't go very well. > > I used to attend a computer club in Derbyshire and had been evangelising > Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular for over a year. A couple of > weeks ago a club member asked me to help him install Linux on an elderly > laptop. The machine in question is a Toshiba S2410-504 with only 256Mb of > RAM. I decided that this was a good candidate for Lubuntu, and the low RAM > suggested that I needed the Alternate Install CD. The install went well > until the very last item when it failed to install GRUB, after this the > laptop would not boot. I spent several hours trying, and failing, to fix > this manually. Most of the proposed solutions for a failed GRUB install > referred to a dual boot situation or required running a live CD but this > machine really struggled to run the live CD. I did manage to run GParted > which suggested that the partitioning of the disk was faulty. I had chosen > the default partitioning option of "Guided. Use whole of the disk.", > however GParted showed that the partition 'sda' didn't have a mount point > (should have been '/') and was not flagged as being bootable. I therefore > repeated the installation but chose a different partition option "Guided. > Use whole of the disk with LVM". This time the installer gave me feedback > screens which confirmed what partitions would be created and their size and > mount points. This feed back was missing from the first install attempt. > The rest of the install went smoothly, GRUB included, and the laptop booted > into Lubuntu. > > Does anyone have experience with the Alternate CD? > Is this unusual behaviour for the Alternate CD? > Does it need reporting as a bug with the installer? > > This whole episode was rather embarrassing as it happened in front of a > potential convert to Linux. It could get even more embarrassing as he > intends to report back to the club members with an account of the > installation attempt. As a small apology to him I have also invested a few > pounds in more RAM boosting it from 256 to 768Mb, which has made a big > improvement in the performance. > > I have two more points to make about my first encounter with Lubuntu: > > Firstly the Alternate CD comes with Chromium as the default browser, > however my experience showed that Chromium would not work reliably on a > machine with only 256Mb of RAM. Should the Alternate CD build have a > lighter weight browser as its default? > > Secondly Lubuntu has the touchpad 'tap to select' feature turned on as the > default. I could turn this off after installing the software but it made > using the live CD very difficult indeed: it was so sensitive that, unless I > was very gentle, when I tried to scroll the curser I would unintentionally > selected something. > > Both of the above points are merely annoying to an experienced Ubuntu user > but they could make a bad impression with a brand new user. > > Cheers, > Barry T. > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > -- > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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