On 05/23/2014 11:09 AM, Matt McKenzie wrote: > My tale is similar but I ended up moving away from Ubuntu to Linux Mint. > I did find a nice workaround for booting however that might be of help. > > I have a similarly old laptop, non-PAE, and doesn't boot from USB directly. > It is a whitebox Compal CL-50, Centrino 1.6ghz, 1GB RAM.
Mine is an Acer Aspire 1640Z, Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz, 2GB RAM. > I found a solution to the booting issue, and not wanting to burn through a > bunch of CDs/DVDs, by using PLOP boot manager[1] on CD, and then using that > to boot from USB, and so I could then more easily change what I was > actually booting with on the USB flash drive. That sounds helpful. > I read up on some of the solutions to try to boot Ubuntu with a non-PAE > kernel, and tried a few different ways, which is one of the main reasons I > wanted to do this boot method with USB flash. I was unable to get Ubuntu to > work though, although the PLOP boot CD then booting from flash did work > well. > > I decided to just go with Mint 13 LTS, which is the last version with > non-PAE kernel (by default anyway), and since it is LTS will continue to > get updates for 5 years. I'll have to give that a try. I'm trying to standardize on mostly the same environment. If I can make Mint with GNOME look mostly like Ubuntu 12.04, then I could probably live with that. The laptop is not going to get heavy use. I usually will sit in the living room and be available to look up stuff on the web. I also use it to connect to myth-web to schedule recordings on my MythTV installation. The other use the laptop gets is when I travel. I copy my entire Thunderbird profile to the laptop so nothing changes with e-mail. Then, when I get home, I copy it back to my main machine. > As for your issue of having installed Xubuntu, and wanting to just install > the Ubuntu gnome packages- my first question would be, have you made sure > your sources.list is updated to pull from the internet servers and not just > the install CD? This is running from a full installed Xubuntu system right, > not just the install CD? Yes. The first two entries in /etc/apt/sources.list are the cdrom, and are commented out. Most of the rest of them point to us.archive.ubuntu.com, or some variation. Knowing that I can get GNOME after a standard Ubuntu install, I decided to try: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop That is progressing as I type. We'll see how it works after lunch. Thanks for your help. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
