[ubuntu-us-ut] Has anyone tried playing with lubuntu-desktop yet?

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:50:31 -0700
Chad Bryant <chadabryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Charles Curley
> <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:44:44 -0700
> > Chad Bryant <chadabryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Charles Curley
> >> <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:01:54 -0700
> >> > Chad Bryant <chadabryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >
> >>  If it will read a commercially-pressed disc, get a 9.10 disc. The
> >> best method would be to install a command-line system, then sudo
> >> apt-get lubuntu-desktop. I make no guarantees if your old Compaq
> >> has less than 64MB RAM, though.
> >
> > I found a live CD, http://blog.lxde.org/?p=514. I set it up on a
> > 64MB VM and the live CD bombed, complaining of lack of memory. I'll
> > try an install to the VM, which will give it some swap space.
> 
> The beta live CDs are live-only, and don't allow an install. You have
> to do a command-line install from an alt-install CD, then apt-get for
> the lubuntu-desktop package.

The one I found above is live. You can type in "live" at the boot
prompt or not. Not doing so gets you a live CD with an option to
install. I didn't get the "live" option to book successfully so I quit
trying it.

I started with 64MB, and the GUI wouldn't even run. At 128 MB, the GUI
would run, but it had problems: windows would start migrating off the
bottom of the screen on their own. Clicking and double clicking on the
"Install" icon produced nothing, not even on the CPU usage meter in the
allegedly minimal display.

I manually partitioned the hard drive, made a swap partition, and ran
"swapon". That made no difference.

I then changed the memory to 256MB and saw the same symptoms as above.
At that point I gave up for the day. So far, I am not impressed with
the lice CD effort. (I think I'll leave that typo intact; it seems to
fit my mood. :-)

This is on libvirt-bin 0.6.1-0ubuntu5.1 i386 on Jaunty.


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