[lubuntu-devel] How to install Lubuntu Cosmic

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Simon,

Another bug report, this time in UEFI mode, but not yet with secure boot,

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/1781015

Best regards
Nio

Den 2018-07-10 kl. 16:37, skrev Nio Wiklund:
> Hi again Simon,
> 
> Thanks for the bugfixes in and aroung Calamares :-)
> 
> Unfortunately there are more bugs along the road. I am reporting two 
> more now after testing again in the computer from 2008 with an Athlon CPU.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/1780977
> 
> and
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calamares/+bug/1780984
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 
> Den 2018-07-10 kl. 08:14, skrev Nio Wiklund:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> [replying inline]
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>> Den 2018-07-09 kl. 20:36, skrev Simon Quigley:
>>> Hi Nio,
>>>
>>> On 07/09/2018 09:50 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>> I tried to install Lubuntu Cosmic from the 64-bit daily iso file (dated
>>>> July 7). I failed after trying in several ways to install it via a USB
>>>> pendrive (cloned with mkusb), a DVD disk (burned and verified with 
>>>> k3b).
>>>> Several different errors were displayed, depending on what options I
>>> tried.
>>> It would be great if you could get the error logs from those.
>>
>> During the next few days I will try to run several test cases and 
>> report bugs if/when I find new ones.
>>
>>>> The target was my Toshiba laptop with Intel i5 (generation 3), that I
>>>> have used to test Lubuntu since 2013. It seems to me that Calamares 
>>>> does
>>>> not work, at least not as it is bundled in Lubuntu Cosmic right now.
>>> How did you launch Calamares? Right now, you need to go to the start
>>> menu and search "Install System" which should launch it. If not, type
>>> `sudo calamares` (yes, sudo, pkexec doesn't work and sudo doesn't break
>>> anything in this case) in QTerminal.
>>
>> I started Calamares via the start menu.
>>
>> I have not yet tried 'sudo calamares'
>>
>>> <snip />> If *you* can install Lubuntu Cosmic with Calamares, please
>>> describe with
>>>> details, how to select options in the different steps, and tell me if
>>>> there are other things to consider, for example about the computer
>>>> (hardware components and settings).
>>> You just go through the install like normal.
>>
>> This is what I have tried (and Calamares fails). I have tried 
>> different options, and 'nothing' has worked so far. I have 'only' 
>> tried in real computers, not in any virtual machine.
>>
>> But installing from the Ubuntu mini.iso (also 64-bits) was successful. 
>> The result was a working Lubuntu installed system (without zram).
>>
>>> The only thing I haven't tested yet is Secure Boot, so if you have error
>>> messages from that, it would be great if you could file a bug with them
>>> against calamares-settings-ubuntu.
>>
>> Yes, I can try UEFI mode and secure boot in my Toshiba laptop from 
>> 2013, and report whatever result I get.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
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