Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-10 Thread
i've had no problem with virtual machines but i did recently put 13.04 on an amd64 hp pavilion dv5000 and ubiquity really seemed to choke on the install. i ended up using alternate. runs fine, but we've always known the graphical installer was a hog. wxl On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 18:06:02 + Phill

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
> > I suspect we have the same problem with 64-bit addressing, as compared to > 32-bit addressing. All memory-references are now twice the size than they > used to be, so the compiled programs are a lot larger because of that > necessity. > > But with 64-bit architecture, you can address a expon

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hello Barry T, First of all, thank you for valuable feedback and thank you for choosing and showing Lubutnu to other people - we do appreciate that a lot and I just started a project [1] to do exactly the same thing :) Second of all, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm one of the members of Lubuntu

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Aere Greenway
On 02/07/2013 10:42 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 02/07/2013 07:04 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: [snip] 512 Megabytes of RAM used to be the 'gold-standard' for all of the Ubuntu variants, but that, alas, is no longer the case. And I realize there is little Lubuntu can do to shield us from the ever-incre

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Lars, I have much lower... I do know for low RAM users, the memory leak is a major issue. It's been passed "up the line" for further investigation. All us mere mortals can do is wait. @Chad, do you know if any progress been made on bug 109663. Regards, Phill. On 7 February 2013 18:10, Lar

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Lars Noodén
>> On 02/07/2013 07:04 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: >> [snip] >>> 512 Megabytes of RAM used to be the 'gold-standard' for all of the >>> Ubuntu variants, but that, alas, is no longer the case. And I realize >>> there is little Lubuntu can do to shield us from the ever-increasing >>> memory requirement

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Lars Noodén
On 02/07/2013 07:04 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: [snip] > 512 Megabytes of RAM used to be the 'gold-standard' for all of the > Ubuntu variants, but that, alas, is no longer the case. And I realize > there is little Lubuntu can do to shield us from the ever-increasing > memory requirements of the Linux

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi, The previous releases of lubuntu are listed here[1]. With regard to no LTS for Lubuntu, this is for lubuntu specific things (e.g. those that start lx). The kernel and browsers, for example, are updated by 'main' ubuntu and a lubuntu system will receive them normally. (This also explains why so

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Aere Greenway
On 02/07/2013 08:44 AM, Barry Titterton wrote: Hi All, This is my first post on the Lubuntu mailing list. I have been using Ubuntu for three years but this is my first experience of Lubuntu, and it didn't go very well. I used to attend a computer club in Derbyshire and had been evangelising

Re: Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Barry, sorry that you had problems. I'll set up a VM with 256MB RAM and try a standard alternate install. I've not had problems with guided - use entire disk, in fact this is my standard choice for when installing. I am assuming that you are using the 12.04 Lubuntu AMD64 Alternate image. Just t

Problem installing from alternate CD

2013-02-07 Thread Barry Titterton
Hi All, This is my first post on the Lubuntu mailing list. I have been using Ubuntu for three years but this is my first experience of Lubuntu, and it didn't go very well. I used to attend a computer club in Derbyshire and had been evangelising Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular for o