Questions about installing Lubuntu. I downloaded an iso for lubuntu (- for some reason it uses AMD in the title at the web-site. This is sure to confuse some people.) I burned a CD, and used the "live" feature to run gparted and repartitioned my disk, leaving a set of 3 win7 partitions and setting up swap, /, home and boot as 4 logical partitions.
Then I used the CD again, choosing the install option. The install program tried to find our wifi with dhcp connection to the net, presumably to fetch other files needed to complete the installation. It annouced it had failed, which is correct, because I do not even have a wireless card; I have a wired local network with fixed ip numbers manually assigned to each machine and to our gateway router. question 1: The install process did NOT drop into a state where it would ask for my ip number, gateway ip-number, netmask, etc. Why not? This seems to be a terrible oversight. (And as i recall KDE did ask a few years ago.) And did I just not hit some magic key or something that would have caused the install to behave properly? After installing, I powered-off, restarted and selected ubuntu from the grub menu. The boot worked okay. I did not set up our net connection (yet) but just shutdown. Then I restarted and booted win7. It worked okay. Then I restarted and booted ubuntu. The boot started, the 5 dots appeared, and the screen then went full blue and nothing happened. I though maybe this hanging was due to looking for a wifi connection, but remember I booted successfully before. question 2: what is happening in this state? Then I powered down, and rebooted and selected the "advanced ubuntu" option from the grub menu. This gives a menu from which I can select disk checking, single-user mode (under another name), etc. I just selected "resume normal boot". Now the boot worked fine, (except screen resolution was degraded to some lower resolution.) I then immediately shutdown. Then I restarted and selected the normal ubuntu boot option from the grub menu. Now the system booted fine and with the correct resolution! (and now I could configure my network connection if I wished.) question 3: What happened here? Why did this "work", and what issue was overcome, and how? question 4: Can you predict what will happen when I boot win7 again? [The answer is the win7 anomaly does not re-occur. - But still, what happened?] question 5: what should I do to finish my lubuntu installation? I need TeX, Gcc, emacs, etc, etc. Is there a graphical update program in my CD install that will get me a full-fledged system without too much grief? [Answer, there is something called the Software Center Manager, or something like this. When I ran it, it had a very few programs one could select from a dozen categories to download. I could get Emacs though. I then ran the synaptic program - this was much better and i was able to get teX, but it is still deficient - I like the Software Center Interface (sort-of,) because it has categories, but it needs to have "everything" available. Later I read a web-site that said to execute the commands: sudo -i apt-get install lubuntu-desktop apt-get dist-upgrade (This does the downloads and takes awhile.) apt-get autoclean rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb But there was no description of what each step does, or why i want to do it. (But I did it, and it worked. I still don't have gcc or a bunch of other stuff however.) ] So I would like to suggest that the install program be fixed to ask me for my net-connection, or at least that the Lubuntu manual on installation that i found via a google search be expanded to explain in more detail what different kinds of users might expect to see happen when they install. question 6: If I ran the "live" version of Lubuntu off the CD, and then set-up my net-connection = ip-number, gateway, DNS server ip Numbers, etc., and THEN ran the install program in an xterm, would my install be more civilized? And what is the name of the install program and in what directory is it in? I would need to know that in order to run it. If this is a good way for people like me to install, maybe it should be in the manual, and described in options when booting the CD. I will try installing the so-called LTS Lubuntu system in a few weeks, since i don't want to struggle with installing every 10 months or so. -------------------------------------------- -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
