Re: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Aere Greenway
On 10/15/2014 09:41 PM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: Having set up four P4 machines with Netflix (via Chrome) in the last couple of weeks... I advise tripling the RAM for that adventure. Although I've never actually watched live television on a P4 machine, I'd imagine you'd want the same - at least 1.5

Re: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Bradshaw
Eric Bradshaw wrote: >PS > >Having set up four P4 machines with Netflix (via Chrome) in the last couple of >weeks... I advise tripling the RAM for that adventure. Although I've never >actually watched live television on a P4 machine, I'd imagine you'd want the >same - at least 1.5 GB of RAM.

Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Bradshaw
PS Having set up four P4 machines with Netflix (via Chrome) in the last couple of weeks... I advise tripling the RAM for that adventure. Although I've never actually watched live television on a P4 machine, I'd imagine you'd want the same - at least 1.5 GB of RAM. Eric-- Lubuntu-users mailing

Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Bradshaw
ryan.ns.l...@ntlworld.com Sent: October-15-14 6:23 AM To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Installer from live CD not launching Hi guys, attempting to revive an old pc to put in my daughters bedroom for watching TV. (mainly peppa pig on YouTube!). It's a pentium 4 with about 512mb ram [s

Issues installing

2014-10-15 Thread Ryan . ns . lee1
Thanks to everyone for the help, it would seem that the root of my problem was bad media and a failing optical drive. Swapping from the dvd drive to the cdrw allowed me better access to booting and finding a ps2 keyboard (old mobo wouldn't let me use USB until in the os) meant I could do a disc

Re: AW: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Aere Greenway
On 10/15/2014 12:05 PM, Israel wrote: I think the BOOT option to INSTALL requires 384+ MB So 512MB is very easy to do this way. Try it this way first!! The reason I have normally done the install from the live CD desktop, is that I have had problems getting my wireless to work from within the

Re: AW: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Israel
Hi, My experience has been 512MB is on the edge for installing Lubuntu. I agree with the statement that running the installer ONLY, rather than the Live desktop AND installer will be the best thing for that little RAM. The Live System is a great way to test a computer! But when you have 512 RAM,

Re: AW: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Aere Greenway
On 10/15/2014 09:37 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: As I recall, when I last did this, installing from running the live desktop, it died during the install, after which I ran the install from booting (rather from the live desktop), and it succeeded. I remembered more details on the installation mentio

Re: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 15.10.2014 17:37, schrieb Aere Greenway: > On 10/15/2014 04:28 AM, leszek.les...@web.de wrote: >> I am not completely sure but I think you need at least 768MB ram for >> the installer to work. >> > I have successfully installed Lubuntu 14.04 on Pentium 3 (and Pentium > 4) machines having only 51

Re: AW: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Aere Greenway
On 10/15/2014 04:28 AM, leszek.les...@web.de wrote: I am not completely sure but I think you need at least 768MB ram for the installer to work. I have successfully installed Lubuntu 14.04 on Pentium 3 (and Pentium 4) machines having only 512 megabytes of RAM, using the Live CD. As I recall,

RE: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Marc Tremblay
Good morning, When you boot from the live CD you usually have an option to either try Lubuntu or install it right away. Instead of choosing try right away and then launching the installation from the live desktop icon choose to install right away. If this does not work you might have a corrupte

AW: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread leszek . lesner
Hi,Iam not completely sure but I think you need at least 768MB ram for the installer to work.

Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Ryan . ns . lee1
Hi guys, attempting to revive an old pc to put in my daughters bedroom for watching TV. (mainly peppa pig on YouTube!). It's a pentium 4 with about 512mb ram and the live CD runs however when I click the icon or through the menu to Install lubuntu nothing happens. Any help would be appreciated!