[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 16.04 Alternate from a USB stick No network

[E James]

On 31/05/16 13:30, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 31 May 2016 at 14:29, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 31 May 2016 at 10:32, E James <e_james at moladn.net> wrote:
>>> I recently tried to install 16.04 using a USB stick but I couldn't get it to boot up; probably because it's a 2003 PC. However, as I recall, there's a point in the installation setup where you say yes or no to configuring the network adaptor. If you said no and it still wants network details, then I would say there's a bug in the installer.
>>
>> The PLOP Boot Manager will get around that. You can run it from CD or
>> floppy disk, and it will boot a USB device.
>>
>> However, be warned, booting off USB *1* is *very* slow. USB 2 works fine.
> 
> 
> Forgot the link!
> 
> https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html
> 

The longer story....

I have a Shuttle with an Athlon XP 2000+ cpu and 512MB ram. It is configured for dual boot - Windows (XP Pro) / Linux (now Lubuntu 14.04).
It was running Lubuntu 12.04 and I wanted to use ffmpeg but I got an error messsage - "illegal operation" so I thought to upgrade it to 16.04.
I have a 32GB usb stick which currently has 21 different boot/install options using YUMI multiboot. I wasn't sure if the PC would boot from it but it did, up to the point of the YUMI menu. Every option I tried from the menu would start to boot and then hang at apparently the same point in the boot process. The PC has a DVD drive but won't boot from DVD, only CD. The 16.04 Alternate iso won't fit on a CD. So I did a distribution upgrade to 14.04 and still ffmpeg wouldn't run. Then I caught on that the version of ffmpeg I was using was too modern for the cpu so I compiled one which worked. I can presumably do another upgrade to 16.04 if I still want it, but not until the option is available from the update manager. Currently the PC is doing what I want it to do ... slowly. I am in no hurry to make further changes.


Thunderbird puts mailing list messages in a hierarchy according to rules which I don't quite understand. Some of the incoming messages have a "Reply List" button and some don't. I think gmail may be a factor. Without the "Reply List" option it is a bit more difficult to make sure my reply goes to the appropriate part of the list.