<div>Hi Rich,</div><div><br></div>There are several e-books you can have a read of to learn the 'innards' of Lubuntu and linux in general. But, before you trouble yourself with that, may I quote our mission statement..<div>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Lubuntu is targeted at PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware that, in most cases, just don't have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the "full-featured" mainstream distributions. Members of the team take care of LXDE and other packages that are part of Lubuntu.</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Please let us know how you get on, you have an important thing to bring to lubuntu... that of a new user. Let us know what we do well, and what we do not[1]. The entire Ubuntu group (ubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, kubuntu, studio, edu, etc...etc) are a family... It will take some time for you to get used to how we work :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Phill.</div><div>1. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/GettingInvolved">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/GettingInvolved</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 December 2012 03:19, Richard Bloss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sneydblois@gmail.com" target="_blank">sneydblois@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Phill,<div><br><div>thanks for taking time to respond personally. Yes I am new to linux but so far enjoying. Put Lubuntu on this old P3 with 512MG RAM some months back because it was just so slow with Win XP. Lubuntu made it once again usable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks to SuperUsers like you, Toz & oldfred I have learned much. Actually glad I started out with Lubuntu & not Ubuntu. Might be getting more experience with linux & the terminal this way.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I will leave it as is. Kinda cool having all the options avail to me. Want all the exposure I can get. Have been a Windows user for many years & really have no idea what goes on behind the curtain so-to-speak. Maybe Lubuntu will make me a better computer user overall?</div>
<div><br></div><div>thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Rich</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Phill Whiteside <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PhillW@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">PhillW@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Hi Richard,<div><br></div><div>1) Welcome to Lubuntu....</div><div><br></div><div>But what you are more worried about is the screen on booting.... That is the default boot screen and is completely normal (in fact it shows to others that you have a very healthy install).</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>You can silence that display if you wish and remove the countdown. I'm a fan of the start up screen, others scream that it really confuses new comers. Later that day: Removed all but one of the SSD's from the Wish List - Crucial 512GB m4 SSD $400. All but one of the Radeon 68xx GPU's too.</div>
<div>Put a 500 watt Corsair PSU in there & placed an ATI Radeon 4850 GPU in the Wish List.</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>If the computer is working happily, then just turn it on and relax while it stretches its fingers and toes to check if it is a 'happy computer'. I'm guessing you have not had a linux system running before? Count down, the computer will choose the top option unless you decide to change it..... If nothing is wrong, simply follow an Apollo countdown 3....2...1.... We have lift off! :D</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="line-height:20px;text-align:justify;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The default Linux bootloader, Grub, has a 5 - 10 second delay in booting. This is provided so that the user has the time for selecting another Kernel/OS. </span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Phill</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 December 2012 01:04, Richard Bloss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sneydblois@gmail.com" target="_blank">sneydblois@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi again,<div>actually the options don't read linux 3.0.0-1. I can't quite make out what it reads because it's covered with Letters (P & M) & other symbols. The rest of the msg is correct as far as I can make out.</div>
<div>I copied the "options" from a ticket on the Ubuntu forums. Some other folks are getting the same msg.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks<div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Richard Bloss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sneydblois@gmail.com" target="_blank">sneydblois@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<div>Last week this msg popped up during boot: (sorry if this sounds like rambling - new to linux)</div><div><span style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px"><span style="color:rgb(153,51,153);background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">GNU GRUB version 1.99-12ubuntu5.1</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px"><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">options are:</span></span></div>
<div><div><font color="#993399"><span style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">Ubuntu, with linux 3.0.0-1-generic</span><br style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">
<span style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">Ubuntu, with linux 3.0.0-1-generic (recovery mode)</span><br style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">
<span style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">Previous Linux versions</span><br style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">
<span style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">Memory test (memtest86+)</span><br style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">
<span style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,"Ubuntu Beta",UbuntuBeta,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)</span></font></div>
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</span></font></div><div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">After 10 seconds it boots normal & all looks as it should.</font></div>
<div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Can anyone tell me why this msg just started to appear?</font></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Did not to my knowledge shut the PC down during any kind of install.</span></div>
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</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245)"><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Here are the </font><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">steps</font><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> I have </font></span><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">performed in an attempt to make this msg go away.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">1) In recovery mode I performed</font></div>
<div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> a) fsck - Check all file systems (no errors)</font></div>
<div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> b) remount - remount / read/write & mount all other file systems</font></div>
<div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> c) dpkg - Repair broken packages</font></div>
<div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> d) grub - Update grub bootloader</font></div>
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<div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">2) Also downloaded YannBuntu's boot-repair iso. </font><span style="font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)">Had to run it in failsafe mode, non failsafe mode just hung each time I tried it. It did indicate one problem fixed & that the document would be avail to view after restart. However after restart from HD I cannot find the document that Boot-Repair generated. Don't remember exactly what it repaired </span><img border="0" alt="" title="Sad" style="vertical-align:middle;font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(247,246,245)"></div>
<div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">3) Using Lubuntu install disc booted into terminal (try Lubuntu before installing) & ran </font><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-size:13px"><b>fsck -a /dev/sda1</b></span></div>
<div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">& from terminal in fully loaded OS ran </font><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-size:13px"><b>sudo shutdown -r -F now</b></span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-size:13px">neither of these found any errors.</span></div><div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Beta, UbuntuBeta, Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans, Tahoma, HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The </font><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);color:rgb(153,51,153);font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">GNU GRUB version 1.99-12ubuntu5.1 </span><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">continues to appear @ startup. Should I be worried about this msg?</span></div>
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</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">& during shutdown I get this msg: <b>initctl = event failed</b> goes by so fast that's all I can read but don't remember getting that msg before, perhaps I wasn't paying so close attention as I am now.</span></div>
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</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">on another note: wanted to use <b>apt-get update</b> for boot-repair so that I could run it </span><span style="background-color:rgb(247,246,245);font-family:Ubuntu,Ubuntu,'Ubuntu Beta',UbuntuBeta,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px">while in terminal (Lubuntu install disc) but I was unable to get my WIFI working. Apparently iwconfig only works for WEP & not for WPA/2. How can I get the wireless working?</span></div>
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