The DNS problem could be this, particularly if you are using a fairly old router.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1609546 Colin On 13 March 2017 at 16:40, B S <bzipiti...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I installed Lubuntu 17.04 beta 1 on a private label Intel NUC with a core > i5-6260U and a 250G SSD that came with Windows 10. I did not use wifi, > though the system has it. Hooked it up to the LAN with an ethernet patch > cable. The issues I ran into are: > > > Twice, DNS didn't work after booting from the installation media (which I > put on a USB flash drive). The system connected to the network. It even > found some DNS servers. ping 8.8.8.8 worked. But somehow, DNS queries > weren't working. ping google.com did not work. I edited > /etc/resolv.conf to add 8.8.8.8 as a nameserver, and then it worked. > > > Apparently, the first time I tried to install, it didn't detect that the > system is UEFI. It asked me where to install GRUB. I am not familiar > with UEFI, and didn't understand that it wasn't supposed to ask. I told > it to put GRUB on /dev/sda. That didn't work, and I tried installing > again, this time putting GRUB on /dev/sda1. That didn't work either, and I > tried to edit the Windows boot with bcdedit. Didn't work, and broke > Windows. Ended up zeroing out the start of the SSD, and scrounging up an > external DVD drive so I could do a fresh install of Windows 10. Then I > tried installing Lubuntu again, from the flash drive, and that time it > worked, didn't ask where to install GRUB. From what I read, seems it's not > easy to tell if a UEFI system is in UEFI mode, or in legacy BIOS mode. To > me, it doesn't make sense that this is hard. Surely UEFI has some > identifying feature to distinguish it from BIOS, that is easily queried, if > only one knows how? > > > Finally, I used rsync to copy my files. Some power saving, screen > locking, and/or hibernating feature kicked in after a while (15 minutes?) > and caused rsync to abort. > > > That's all the issues I've run into so far. No doubt I'll see more > problems when I start trying to use it. > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > >
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