<div dir="ltr">First things first... Did you configure your network connection with nm-applet?? On a Live Lubuntu or a Installed 14.04 (LTS), you can run it with Alt+F2 shortcut. Just type "nm-applet" and click OK. The networks manager will be shown as a "tray" icon...</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-20 20:57 GMT-03:00 brendanperrine <<a href="mailto:walterorlin@gmail.com" target="_blank">walterorlin@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, 20 May 2014 18:58:16 -0400 Gary Knott <<a href="mailto:garyknott@gmail.com">garyknott@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Questions about installing Lubuntu. > > I downloaded an iso for lubuntu (- for some reason it uses AMD in the > title at the web-site. This is sure to confuse some people.) > I burned a CD, and used the "live" feature to > run gparted and repartitioned my disk, leaving a > set of 3 win7 partitions and setting up swap, /, home and boot > as 4 logical partitions. > > Then I used the CD again, choosing the install > option. The install program tried to find our wifi > with dhcp connection to the net, presumably > to fetch other files needed to complete the installation. > It annouced it had failed, which is correct, because > I do not even have a wireless card; > I have a wired local network with fixed ip numbers > manually assigned to each machine and to > our gateway router. > > question 1: The install process did NOT drop into a > state where it would ask for my > ip number, gateway ip-number, netmask, etc. > Why not? This seems to be a terrible oversight. > (And as i recall KDE did ask a few years ago.) > And did I just not hit some magic key or something that > would have caused the install to behave properly? > > After installing, I powered-off, restarted and selected > ubuntu from the grub menu. The boot worked okay. > I did not set up our net connection (yet) but just shutdown. > > Then I restarted and booted win7. It worked okay. > Then I restarted and booted ubuntu. The boot > started, the 5 dots appeared, and the screen then went full blue and > nothing happened. I though maybe this hanging was due to looking for a > wifi connection, but remember I booted successfully before. > > question 2: what is happening in this state? > > Then I powered down, and rebooted and selected > the "advanced ubuntu" option from the grub menu. > This gives a menu from which I can select disk checking, > single-user mode (under another name), etc. > I just selected "resume normal boot". > > Now the boot worked fine, (except screen resolution was > degraded to some lower resolution.) > I then immediately shutdown. > > Then I restarted and selected the normal ubuntu > boot option from the grub menu. > Now the system booted fine and with the correct > resolution! (and now I could configure my network > connection if I wished.) > > question 3: What happened here? Why did this > "work", and what issue was overcome, and how? > > question 4: Can you predict what will happen when I > boot win7 again? [The answer is the win7 anomaly > does not re-occur. - But still, what happened?] > > question 5: what should I do to finish my lubuntu > installation? I need TeX, Gcc, emacs, etc, etc. > Is there a graphical update program in my CD install > that will get me a full-fledged system without too much grief? > > [Answer, there is something called the Software Center Manager, or > something like this. When I ran it, it had a very few programs one > could select from a dozen categories to download. I could get Emacs > though. I then ran the synaptic program - this was much better and i > was able to get teX, but it is still deficient - I like the Software > Center Interface (sort-of,) because it has categories, but it needs to > have "everything" available. > > Later I read a web-site that said to execute the commands: > sudo -i > apt-get install lubuntu-desktop > apt-get dist-upgrade (This does the downloads and takes awhile.) > apt-get autoclean > rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb > > But there was no description of what each step does, or why i want > to do it. (But I did it, and it worked. I still don't have > gcc or a bunch of other stuff however.) > ] > > > So I would like to suggest that the install program > be fixed to ask me for my net-connection, or at > least that the Lubuntu manual on installation that i found via a > google search be expanded to explain in more detail > what different kinds of users might expect to see happen > when they install. > > > question 6: If I ran the "live" version of Lubuntu > off the CD, and then set-up my net-connection = > ip-number, gateway, DNS server ip Numbers, etc., > and THEN ran the install program in an xterm, > would my install be more civilized? And what is the > name of the install program and in what directory is it > in? I would need to know that in order to run it. > > If this is a good way for people like me to install, > maybe it should be in the manual, and described in > options when booting the CD. > > I will try installing the so-called LTS Lubuntu system > in a few weeks, since i don't want to struggle with > installing every 10 months or so. > > -------------------------------------------- > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> </div></div>This is a small bug in the release notes that the nm-applet is on by start which you just need to run and then you can click on it as a GUI. Yes you need to install Tex but not everyone knows what you want synaptic has a search feature. Also lubuntu comes with two GUI package managers the old synaptic and lubuntu software center. On my 14.04 install I just set up a network connection through ethernet with nm-applet. I think you will need to connect to the internet to get apt to work or there was apt-offline. -- brendanperrine <<a href="mailto:walterorlin@gmail.com">walterorlin@gmail.com</a>> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -- Lubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>