Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Dell Mini-9 issues
Hi Phill, Yes, the md5sum of the Maverick alpha-2 CD I burned checks out correctly using that approach. Sorry, need more coffee or something. :) Bob On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi Bob, you can use md5sum from the command line to check the downloaded iso. If you're a bit rusty on the command http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=94 has the 10.04 version, just change the file name. To check the CD you'd need to know the size of the iso file (I haven't downloaded it yet) and divide it by 2048, that would then be the figure for count in the dd check For the 10.04 release, the filesize is 546285568 and 546285568 / 2048 = 266741 so the command is. dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum It is all covered in detail at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM The reason for using the block size of 2048 is that it makes the checking of the cd much faster than using a block-size of one (try it some time !!), that document also explains why you cannot just do md5sum /dev/cdrom. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Phill, The ISO I'm using is the one Julien pointed us to in this list. The Maverick beta: Torrent: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-maverick-alpha2.iso.torrent Download: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-maverick-alpha2.iso Md5sum: http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/md5sum.txt Isn't that the one we're all working with at this point? If not, then I'm more confused than I realized. :) Regards, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi Bob, does the iso that you are using pass the md5? If you're using the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#Download Lubuntu then I can ask as to how the iso burns to a usb with checking the md5. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I'll try to wrap my head around the whole problem and see if I can write it up coherently.. after a bit of sleep. :) In the meantime, with the USB install, I have the same issues I noted in my opening post.. and looking at the USB stick I notice that the boot.cat file still has the wrong md5sum (if that's relevant.) So, my initial post still stands if any of those things are of interest at the moment. Tomorrow I'll see precisely what it takes to overcome the dim display problem. And I have to sort out wireless and a few other things. Let me know, please, what would be most useful to you folks at this stage. Night, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi Bob, If the CD is not burned at 4X speed, it can cause horrors. In 9.10 I could burn at that rate, in 10.04 I cannot. As a part of these 'funnies' that happen, one of the tech guys told me that he could not burn at 4X in 9.10 but can do in 10.04 . I have learned to 'cheat' and use CD-RW's or DVD-RW's which keeps the burn speed down. Oh, and I've used brassero etc., it seems to be a kernel issue but one that is really hard to nail down. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I can write up a version for Maverick, as soon as I understand what's actually happening with the whole process. I mean, I took Andy's advice and made a bootable USB stick instead (much faster than the CD.. glad I learned about that) but I still don't know why the CD burn process is causing errors, etc. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Those instructions are solely for the 10.04 disk, if you are using a different installation method then the check sum will be different. If you pop over to the thread http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=94 that gives the 10.04 release, I would need to update it for the release levels for the alphas, or I could give you the instructions as to how to write them :p Possibly the md5 | cdrom command may be easier for people, as it only requires the md5 sum to check against. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, well, hmm. I don't get the correct md5sum according to this method either, Phill. b...@ub32:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum 0e9fac900c8288b243e875d9b1b65479 - 266741+0 records in 266741+0 records out 546285568 bytes (546 MB) copied, 112.087 s, 4.9 MB/s So, I tried yet another approach and burned one with Nautilus as per the instructions. For the first time, I got an actual error during the burn. It didn't tell me what was wrong, but at least it alerted me to the burning
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Dell Mini-9 issues
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05,July,2010 09:04 PM, Bob Trevithick wrote: Hi Phill, Yes, the md5sum of the Maverick alpha-2 CD I burned checks out correctly using that approach. Sorry, need more coffee or something. :) Bob I've not followed this thread in detail, so I don't recall everything you've tried. Sorry if I am repeating something. I've not yet had a chance to install Maverick alpha2, but it boots to the desktop just fine on my test system (PIII-866, 256MB RAM). The md5 checksum is correct, and self-checking the CD indicates there is an error in 1 file. But it has done that through all versions of Lubuntu, so I don't worry about it. Bob, have you tried the CDs you've created on another system besides the Dell Mini-9. I. e., is it possible the problem is with the optical drive of the Mini-9? Regards David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMMlC/AAoJED4CrHV2P1q4FKAH/1cU29Va3iGhAGfKPJ7Ozsaq tKn3Oa0yvsAuveiybKMQDRA1RpPuVrAtmZ2SFxvuRrfu4HzIyyEiCpYPOZ9FcmGa MpWt5E2NAfJQ3bZRHPO8wXujIvXrsrxqaAWGZVa//zz8dfV3/+IVW+EeLtE8A05l etcohsfcFNUBmxZXzPYvxBorEalGK25HGirH3dIXXGgLYuKunpDTgNX9XKd+NT7x +guupmTay9ERdQ89z98K2yn/HxU5i8m7pmNSTzg+Gotds9P17Z119VY9DroAm/9p 58/fJcEwW+pJPJVhMNd8fvakxP5ChaQ6VOIHmF5vYMHcpnREr6Od5N/rla3IcBU= =gEq+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Did you MD5 test the ISO? If you installed using a CD, did you check the CD for defects? -Andy On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: I just did the alpha-2 install on my Mini-9 Netbook, and there were various little issues that arose. I'm not sure what level of detail you want at this point, or if you want a distinct thread started for each issue, so I'll just quickly list some here and perhaps you could indicate which, if any, are of interest to pursue further? 1 - Install went fine until it reached the 95% point of Installing System, running dpkg, at which point it simply stopped for about a half hour and then completed the install successfully. I was almost ready to abort, and I suspect many people would have. 2 - My screen was so dim that it literally wasn't usable until I Googled for this issue and added appropriate commands to the grub startup command (both during the install and for subsequent boots). 3 - On first run of Synaptic, it reports Auto Removable items. It also generates errors, when I Reload, about signatures which couldn't be verified. 4 - The browser has some minor problems, but I see that there are already bugs filed on chromium-browser which cover those. I haven't had a chance to test it much. Is there a particular test regimen you'd like run, or aren't we at that point quite yet? Regards, Bob ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Hi Bob, the 95% stall on install is a known 'bug'. I do not know how much RAM you have on the Dell, but a couple of pointers that may help from this problem... Then a perused through the bios setting and found the setting APIC Mode was set to Disabled. I changed it to Enabled and that seemed to do the trick and the thread http://newyork.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1473819 I've seen it noted that it can take several hours on low RAM machines to do the final part of the cleanup. Regards, Phill. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: I just did the alpha-2 install on my Mini-9 Netbook, and there were various little issues that arose. I'm not sure what level of detail you want at this point, or if you want a distinct thread started for each issue, so I'll just quickly list some here and perhaps you could indicate which, if any, are of interest to pursue further? 1 - Install went fine until it reached the 95% point of Installing System, running dpkg, at which point it simply stopped for about a half hour and then completed the install successfully. I was almost ready to abort, and I suspect many people would have. 2 - My screen was so dim that it literally wasn't usable until I Googled for this issue and added appropriate commands to the grub startup command (both during the install and for subsequent boots). 3 - On first run of Synaptic, it reports Auto Removable items. It also generates errors, when I Reload, about signatures which couldn't be verified. 4 - The browser has some minor problems, but I see that there are already bugs filed on chromium-browser which cover those. I haven't had a chance to test it much. Is there a particular test regimen you'd like run, or aren't we at that point quite yet? Regards, Bob ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
@Phill: Thanks.. the 95% bug I should have looked up! If I can ever burn a CD (see below) I'll try the install with ethernet unplugged. :) @Andy: Okay, this is weird. I did check the md5sum of the ISO I downloaded, but I did *not* check the CD I burned.. and I should have. I've now made three coasters, four counting the original one, and no matter what system I use to burn the CD, the file boot.cat comes out with the wrong md5. It's the only error on the CD. Neither Brasero nor Xfburn can put this image on a CD without screwing up that one file. And neither one warns me of the error. I wonder why it's always the same file? Anyway, my apologies.. I should have checked the CD as well as the ISO, obviously! There's something I won't forget to do ever again. :) Now if I can just get it to burn accurately, just once, I can start over and hopefully things will work better. Regards, Bob ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Re: md5checksum on CD There is a bug on testing the CD, again it has been noted and when Julien and Ian get some time it can be looked into. - If the person who gave me the quicker instructions rather than the one I have I will pop it onto the wiki. * * *Next, you can burn the cd (** https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto*https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto *). Once it is done, check the CD by issuing: * * * #* * #*Code:**dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum* * It should also report back **386a227968cbabc89e1a23b95035160e**. If not, the CD did not burn correctly.* Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: @Phill: Thanks.. the 95% bug I should have looked up! If I can ever burn a CD (see below) I'll try the install with ethernet unplugged. :) @Andy: Okay, this is weird. I did check the md5sum of the ISO I downloaded, but I did *not* check the CD I burned.. and I should have. I've now made three coasters, four counting the original one, and no matter what system I use to burn the CD, the file boot.cat comes out with the wrong md5. It's the only error on the CD. Neither Brasero nor Xfburn can put this image on a CD without screwing up that one file. And neither one warns me of the error. I wonder why it's always the same file? Anyway, my apologies.. I should have checked the CD as well as the ISO, obviously! There's something I won't forget to do ever again. :) Now if I can just get it to burn accurately, just once, I can start over and hopefully things will work better. Regards, Bob ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Ah, well, hmm. I don't get the correct md5sum according to this method either, Phill. b...@ub32:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum 0e9fac900c8288b243e875d9b1b65479 - 266741+0 records in 266741+0 records out 546285568 bytes (546 MB) copied, 112.087 s, 4.9 MB/s So, I tried yet another approach and burned one with Nautilus as per the instructions. For the first time, I got an actual error during the burn. It didn't tell me what was wrong, but at least it alerted me to the burning error. Okay, I've tried to burn this on three different machines, using three different burning applications, and two different types of blank CDs. Maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of work. ;-) I'll download the 32-bit alternate CD, do a command-line install, and then apt-get the lubuntu-desktop package. That should give me the same thing I'm trying to do here, right? Thanks! Regards, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Burn as SLOWLY as you are allowed. Even 1x if you can. It will give a better image on the CD and will reduce errors by jitter and such. Using a USB device alleviates the need for moving CDs and such (assuming you can boot USB). If not definately burn slow, try another brand if you still get issues and try not to use CDRWs. -Andy On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: @Phill: Thanks.. the 95% bug I should have looked up! If I can ever burn a CD (see below) I'll try the install with ethernet unplugged. :) @Andy: Okay, this is weird. I did check the md5sum of the ISO I downloaded, but I did *not* check the CD I burned.. and I should have. I've now made three coasters, four counting the original one, and no matter what system I use to burn the CD, the file boot.cat comes out with the wrong md5. It's the only error on the CD. Neither Brasero nor Xfburn can put this image on a CD without screwing up that one file. And neither one warns me of the error. I wonder why it's always the same file? Anyway, my apologies.. I should have checked the CD as well as the ISO, obviously! There's something I won't forget to do ever again. :) Now if I can just get it to burn accurately, just once, I can start over and hopefully things will work better. Regards, Bob ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Yep, I was using the slowest speeds available. I've now installed unetbootin and am creating a USB to boot this from. With any luck... :-) I'll let you know how I make out. Thanks for the assist! On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Andrew Woodhead andrew.woodhead...@googlemail.com wrote: Burn as SLOWLY as you are allowed. Even 1x if you can. It will give a better image on the CD and will reduce errors by jitter and such. Using a USB device alleviates the need for moving CDs and such (assuming you can boot USB). If not definately burn slow, try another brand if you still get issues and try not to use CDRWs. -Andy On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: @Phill: Thanks.. the 95% bug I should have looked up! If I can ever burn a CD (see below) I'll try the install with ethernet unplugged. :) @Andy: Okay, this is weird. I did check the md5sum of the ISO I downloaded, but I did *not* check the CD I burned.. and I should have. I've now made three coasters, four counting the original one, and no matter what system I use to burn the CD, the file boot.cat comes out with the wrong md5. It's the only error on the CD. Neither Brasero nor Xfburn can put this image on a CD without screwing up that one file. And neither one warns me of the error. I wonder why it's always the same file? Anyway, my apologies.. I should have checked the CD as well as the ISO, obviously! There's something I won't forget to do ever again. :) Now if I can just get it to burn accurately, just once, I can start over and hopefully things will work better. Regards, Bob ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Those instructions are solely for the 10.04 disk, if you are using a different installation method then the check sum will be different. If you pop over to the thread http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=94 that gives the 10.04 release, I would need to update it for the release levels for the alphas, or I could give you the instructions as to how to write them :p Possibly the md5 | cdrom command may be easier for people, as it only requires the md5 sum to check against. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: Ah, well, hmm. I don't get the correct md5sum according to this method either, Phill. b...@ub32:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum 0e9fac900c8288b243e875d9b1b65479 - 266741+0 records in 266741+0 records out 546285568 bytes (546 MB) copied, 112.087 s, 4.9 MB/s So, I tried yet another approach and burned one with Nautilus as per the instructions. For the first time, I got an actual error during the burn. It didn't tell me what was wrong, but at least it alerted me to the burning error. Okay, I've tried to burn this on three different machines, using three different burning applications, and two different types of blank CDs. Maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of work. ;-) I'll download the 32-bit alternate CD, do a command-line install, and then apt-get the lubuntu-desktop package. That should give me the same thing I'm trying to do here, right? Thanks! Regards, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Sure, I can write up a version for Maverick, as soon as I understand what's actually happening with the whole process. I mean, I took Andy's advice and made a bootable USB stick instead (much faster than the CD.. glad I learned about that) but I still don't know why the CD burn process is causing errors, etc. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Those instructions are solely for the 10.04 disk, if you are using a different installation method then the check sum will be different. If you pop over to the thread http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=94 that gives the 10.04 release, I would need to update it for the release levels for the alphas, or I could give you the instructions as to how to write them :p Possibly the md5 | cdrom command may be easier for people, as it only requires the md5 sum to check against. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, well, hmm. I don't get the correct md5sum according to this method either, Phill. b...@ub32:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum 0e9fac900c8288b243e875d9b1b65479 - 266741+0 records in 266741+0 records out 546285568 bytes (546 MB) copied, 112.087 s, 4.9 MB/s So, I tried yet another approach and burned one with Nautilus as per the instructions. For the first time, I got an actual error during the burn. It didn't tell me what was wrong, but at least it alerted me to the burning error. Okay, I've tried to burn this on three different machines, using three different burning applications, and two different types of blank CDs. Maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of work. ;-) I'll download the 32-bit alternate CD, do a command-line install, and then apt-get the lubuntu-desktop package. That should give me the same thing I'm trying to do here, right? Thanks! Regards, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Hi Bob, If the CD is not burned at 4X speed, it can cause horrors. In 9.10 I could burn at that rate, in 10.04 I cannot. As a part of these 'funnies' that happen, one of the tech guys told me that he could not burn at 4X in 9.10 but can do in 10.04 . I have learned to 'cheat' and use CD-RW's or DVD-RW's which keeps the burn speed down. Oh, and I've used brassero etc., it seems to be a kernel issue but one that is really hard to nail down. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: Sure, I can write up a version for Maverick, as soon as I understand what's actually happening with the whole process. I mean, I took Andy's advice and made a bootable USB stick instead (much faster than the CD.. glad I learned about that) but I still don't know why the CD burn process is causing errors, etc. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Those instructions are solely for the 10.04 disk, if you are using a different installation method then the check sum will be different. If you pop over to the thread http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=94 that gives the 10.04 release, I would need to update it for the release levels for the alphas, or I could give you the instructions as to how to write them :p Possibly the md5 | cdrom command may be easier for people, as it only requires the md5 sum to check against. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, well, hmm. I don't get the correct md5sum according to this method either, Phill. b...@ub32:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum 0e9fac900c8288b243e875d9b1b65479 - 266741+0 records in 266741+0 records out 546285568 bytes (546 MB) copied, 112.087 s, 4.9 MB/s So, I tried yet another approach and burned one with Nautilus as per the instructions. For the first time, I got an actual error during the burn. It didn't tell me what was wrong, but at least it alerted me to the burning error. Okay, I've tried to burn this on three different machines, using three different burning applications, and two different types of blank CDs. Maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of work. ;-) I'll download the 32-bit alternate CD, do a command-line install, and then apt-get the lubuntu-desktop package. That should give me the same thing I'm trying to do here, right? Thanks! Regards, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Okay, I'll try to wrap my head around the whole problem and see if I can write it up coherently.. after a bit of sleep. :) In the meantime, with the USB install, I have the same issues I noted in my opening post.. and looking at the USB stick I notice that the boot.cat file still has the wrong md5sum (if that's relevant.) So, my initial post still stands if any of those things are of interest at the moment. Tomorrow I'll see precisely what it takes to overcome the dim display problem. And I have to sort out wireless and a few other things. Let me know, please, what would be most useful to you folks at this stage. Night, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi Bob, If the CD is not burned at 4X speed, it can cause horrors. In 9.10 I could burn at that rate, in 10.04 I cannot. As a part of these 'funnies' that happen, one of the tech guys told me that he could not burn at 4X in 9.10 but can do in 10.04 . I have learned to 'cheat' and use CD-RW's or DVD-RW's which keeps the burn speed down. Oh, and I've used brassero etc., it seems to be a kernel issue but one that is really hard to nail down. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I can write up a version for Maverick, as soon as I understand what's actually happening with the whole process. I mean, I took Andy's advice and made a bootable USB stick instead (much faster than the CD.. glad I learned about that) but I still don't know why the CD burn process is causing errors, etc. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Those instructions are solely for the 10.04 disk, if you are using a different installation method then the check sum will be different. If you pop over to the thread http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=94 that gives the 10.04 release, I would need to update it for the release levels for the alphas, or I could give you the instructions as to how to write them :p Possibly the md5 | cdrom command may be easier for people, as it only requires the md5 sum to check against. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, well, hmm. I don't get the correct md5sum according to this method either, Phill. b...@ub32:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum 0e9fac900c8288b243e875d9b1b65479 - 266741+0 records in 266741+0 records out 546285568 bytes (546 MB) copied, 112.087 s, 4.9 MB/s So, I tried yet another approach and burned one with Nautilus as per the instructions. For the first time, I got an actual error during the burn. It didn't tell me what was wrong, but at least it alerted me to the burning error. Okay, I've tried to burn this on three different machines, using three different burning applications, and two different types of blank CDs. Maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of work. ;-) I'll download the 32-bit alternate CD, do a command-line install, and then apt-get the lubuntu-desktop package. That should give me the same thing I'm trying to do here, right? Thanks! Regards, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum ___ 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] Dell Mini-9 issues
Hi Bob, does the iso that you are using pass the md5? If you're using the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu#Download Lubuntu then I can ask as to how the iso burns to a usb with checking the md5. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: Okay, I'll try to wrap my head around the whole problem and see if I can write it up coherently.. after a bit of sleep. :) In the meantime, with the USB install, I have the same issues I noted in my opening post.. and looking at the USB stick I notice that the boot.cat file still has the wrong md5sum (if that's relevant.) So, my initial post still stands if any of those things are of interest at the moment. Tomorrow I'll see precisely what it takes to overcome the dim display problem. And I have to sort out wireless and a few other things. Let me know, please, what would be most useful to you folks at this stage. Night, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi Bob, If the CD is not burned at 4X speed, it can cause horrors. In 9.10 I could burn at that rate, in 10.04 I cannot. As a part of these 'funnies' that happen, one of the tech guys told me that he could not burn at 4X in 9.10 but can do in 10.04 . I have learned to 'cheat' and use CD-RW's or DVD-RW's which keeps the burn speed down. Oh, and I've used brassero etc., it seems to be a kernel issue but one that is really hard to nail down. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I can write up a version for Maverick, as soon as I understand what's actually happening with the whole process. I mean, I took Andy's advice and made a bootable USB stick instead (much faster than the CD.. glad I learned about that) but I still don't know why the CD burn process is causing errors, etc. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Those instructions are solely for the 10.04 disk, if you are using a different installation method then the check sum will be different. If you pop over to the thread http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=94 that gives the 10.04 release, I would need to update it for the release levels for the alphas, or I could give you the instructions as to how to write them :p Possibly the md5 | cdrom command may be easier for people, as it only requires the md5 sum to check against. Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, well, hmm. I don't get the correct md5sum according to this method either, Phill. b...@ub32:~$ dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum 0e9fac900c8288b243e875d9b1b65479 - 266741+0 records in 266741+0 records out 546285568 bytes (546 MB) copied, 112.087 s, 4.9 MB/s So, I tried yet another approach and burned one with Nautilus as per the instructions. For the first time, I got an actual error during the burn. It didn't tell me what was wrong, but at least it alerted me to the burning error. Okay, I've tried to burn this on three different machines, using three different burning applications, and two different types of blank CDs. Maybe I'm not cut out for this kind of work. ;-) I'll download the 32-bit alternate CD, do a command-line install, and then apt-get the lubuntu-desktop package. That should give me the same thing I'm trying to do here, right? Thanks! Regards, Bob On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=266741 | md5sum ___ 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
