Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] minimal install.
Hiyas Gang, the iso has been safely installed onto my server area and the md5 checks out okay. (Many thanks to bioterror for doing the transfer) The link is http://phillw.net/lubuntu-alternate-10.10.iso If some one could confirm that it installs I'll put on to the wiki area. The md5 is at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2351433/Lubuntu-Alternate/lubuntu-10.10-alternate.iso.md5which I'll transfer over once I know the iso works. Regards, Phill. On 19 October 2010 09:49, Leszek Lesner leszek.les...@web.de wrote: Am 19.10.2010 01:07, schrieb Phill Whiteside: Crikey, Leszek, that's an awesome amount of work. If you and julien agree on it, then I would be more than happy to host it. I agree ;) Here is the first still unoffical Lubuntu 10.10 Alternate Install CD. It is a little bit bigger as I put some language files more in there and included lxkeymap, lxproxy aswell as lubuntu-control-center. They won't install by default. By default only lubuntu-desktop and its dependencies are installed. There is only one known bug so far, I forgot to change the date in the label of the CD ISO Image so it still claims the 7ths of October to be its build date. :P Here is the ISO Image (669 MB) : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2351433/Lubuntu-Alternate/lubuntu-10.10-alternate.iso and the MD5: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2351433/Lubuntu-Alternate/lubuntu-10.10-alternate.iso.md5 Please be aware that dropbox will block the file if too much traffic is produced. Therefor I only send this mail to you Phill Julien not the list so that Julien has time to decide and you (Phill) the time for download and then putting in on your server ;) Thanks, Phill. On 18 October 2010 17:24, Leszek Lesner leszek.les...@web.de wrote: Am 18.10.2010 15:25, schrieb Julien Lavergne: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:59:06 +0200 Leszek Lesner leszek.les...@web.de leszek.les...@web.de wrote: I created a Install CD by simply creating a minimal install CD plus a repo. Unfortunetly the Installation fails after installing the base system, because it tries to install a package called lubuntu-desktop^ in the tasksel process which it cant find. I tried this with the modified tasksel version of yours. I even checked the modification you made but cant find the error. I'm not sure I made the correct fix for tasksel, it probably needs another fix somewhere. But I interesting to know how you made the initial CD, because I only find how doing an iso with squash filesystem, but not with .deb packages. Ok I see it wasn't quite the right fixes you made as the last line in lubuntu-desktop from the ubuntu-tasks folder contains Packages: task-fields This would as far as I understand connect to the ubuntu server and search for a corresponding task. But there isn't one. Packages: list lubuntu-desktop works much better and fixes the error I got before. To create the CD I basically took the xubuntu alternate cd. Then I copied over the whole ISO and put it into one directory(lets call it cd-img). Replaced the isolinux folder with the fancy isolinux folder from the livecd with the cool looking logo png and where you can set language with F2 and with F3 the keymap and so on. The first thing that I did afterwards was taking the xubuntu.preseed file that ships with the xubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso and changing it basically from xubuntu-desktop to lubuntu-desktop(I know there is a lubuntu.seed file on the live cd but I took the one from the other alternate cds as they were more entries and I didn't want to mess ups things). Then I put this preseed file back to my copy of the minimal install cd(so the cd-img folder) into the preseed folder. I did change the txt.cfg file in isolinux so that the default option would boot with the preseed file option of the lubuntu.seed . Then the little bit more tricky part create a repository. For creating this repository I know that I need every package that needs to be installed when installing lubuntu-desktop. Every means every , so also xorg and those other stuffs. As I had a Minimal Install ISO aswell I simply created a minimal installed cli only system in virtualbox and apt-get install(ed) lubuntu-desktop. All the required deb files are stored in /var/cache/apt/. The only thing to do now is getting those deb files outside the virtual machine. Then there is a cool package called apt-move which is pretty handy as it can automatically copy or move those deb files in a repository like hierarchical folder view. So it will create automatically the structure of a repository that you need, by putting in lubuntu-desktop for example in a pool/l/lubuntu-meta/lubuntu-desktop_xXX-i386.deb file/folder structure. By default this repository structure will be put into /mirrors/debian so you need root right to run apt-move. But I guess the default folder is changeable I just was to lazy to read the
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] minimal install.
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:22:27 +0100 Phill Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hiyas Gang, the iso has been safely installed onto my server area and the md5 checks out okay. (Many thanks to bioterror for doing the transfer) The link is http://phillw.net/lubuntu-alternate-10.10.iso If some one could confirm that it installs I'll put on to the wiki area. The md5 is at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2351433/Lubuntu-Alternate/lubuntu-10.10-alternate.iso.md5which I'll transfer over once I know the iso works. Wonderful! :D ...apart from the links not working :( -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Lubuntu-desktop] cmov
Hey, I just tried installing Lubuntu 10.10 on a K6 450 notebook and ran into the cmov missing problem. Since this distribution is designed to run on low end machines cmov support should be compiled into the kernel (imho). I just wanted to check if you're already aware of the missing cmov support in recent kernels. Best Regards, Chris -- This message was sent from Launchpad by =?utf-8?q?Christian_St=C3=B6veken?= (https://launchpad.net/~excogitation) using the Contact this team link on the Lubuntu team page (https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop). For more information see https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] cmov
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:07:04 - Christian Stöveken launchpad@excogitation.de wrote: Hey, I just tried installing Lubuntu 10.10 on a K6 450 notebook and ran into the cmov missing problem. Since this distribution is designed to run on low end machines cmov support should be compiled into the kernel (imho). I just wanted to check if you're already aware of the missing cmov support in recent kernels. Sadly, yes. See this thread https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-desktop/msg02587.html -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] minimal install.
Oops, my bad http://phillw.net/lubuntu10.10-alternate.iso http://phillw.net/lubuntu10.10-alternate.isoRegards, Phill. On 20 October 2010 18:31, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:22:27 +0100 Phill Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hiyas Gang, the iso has been safely installed onto my server area and the md5 checks out okay. (Many thanks to bioterror for doing the transfer) The link is http://phillw.net/lubuntu-alternate-10.10.iso If some one could confirm that it installs I'll put on to the wiki area. The md5 is at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2351433/Lubuntu-Alternate/lubuntu-10.10-alternate.iso.md5which I'll transfer over once I know the iso works. Wonderful! :D ...apart from the links not working :( -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] cmov
Julien, as we are the last post of support for older computers, to with Canonical and them dropping the support from the kernel for i586 and below that I thought that was the 'raison d'etre' for Lubuntu. We cannot turn our backs on these people. Just my 2 cents worth. Regards, Phill. On 21 October 2010 00:02, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:07:04 - Christian Stöveken launchpad@excogitation.de wrote: Hey, I just tried installing Lubuntu 10.10 on a K6 450 notebook and ran into the cmov missing problem. Since this distribution is designed to run on low end machines cmov support should be compiled into the kernel (imho). I just wanted to check if you're already aware of the missing cmov support in recent kernels. Sadly, yes. See this thread https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-desktop/msg02587.html -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Lubuntu GRUB and PLOP
As requested, the sender's details have been removed, Any comments / Is it worth editing for the Advanced / Expert users section ? Regards, Phill. Hi, As requested an email summarising how to do it (as discussed with bioterror). If you decide to use any of this please respect my anonymity. Outline of Circumstances and Objectives. Various older/low spec machines are in use here that are at/approaching the end of their life. Objective 1: Extend useful life. Resolution - Move to a Linux distro specifically designed to require few demands on system resources. Machines are unable to satifactorily run current commercial OS's and apps. Objective 2: Employ lightweight OSS OS and apps. Resolution - Lubuntu Users here are non-expert and do not want to understand why, only to know how. Objective 3: Users not to be exposed to technicalities. Resolution - Inherrent in Lubuntu design. Users are reluctant to move from what they know. Objective 4: Employ familiar uncluttered GUI. Resolution - Inherrent in Lubuntu design. Objective 5: Offer similar/like-for-like apps. Resolution - Extensive range of apps in Ubuntu repositories. Objective 6: Reduce fear factor by demonstrating both old and new side-by-side Resolution - Enable multi-boot of new and existing OS/apps on current machines. Machines have differing abilities to boot from a range of devices/sources Objective 7: Provide a common means of booting to enable the same booting ability at each machine. Resolution - Employ PLOP boot manager. Outline of Setting-up Lubuntu and PLOP PLOP is a boot manager that requires the presence of a bootloader (GRUB) to load the OS. In a multi-boot set-up GRUB is not to be placed in the MBR (ref PLOP web site). The following was found to produce a working multi-boot set-up. 1: When installing Lubuntu from the CD-ROM choose to manually partition the disk 2: Create a small primary partition (250MB) and set its mount point as /boot 3: Create an extended partition for Lubuntu (anything above 3.5GB) and set its mount point to be / 4: On the same page is an option to choose the location of the bootloader (GRUB). Set this to point at /dev/sdXX i.e. /boot 5: The installation then continues as normal and when GRUB is installed to /boot it also scans for other bootable OS's and adds them to the list of boot options in the GRUB menu. Currently, the test-rig PC is started with PLOP on a floppy disk. It offers to boot from various hard disk partitions. Selecting the one created as /boot displays the usual GRUB menu which includes all the OS's on the hard disk. The only step left now is to move PLOP from floppy to the hard disk, however the proof of concept is complete. Regards SamK ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp