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| ebel | hmm, we haven't had an irc meeting in a while. we should probably have another one shortly (see email) | 10:11 |
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| tdr112 | email saw +1 | 10:53 |
| czajkowski | ello | 10:53 |
| tdr112 | hey czajkowski | 10:55 |
| czajkowski | hows folks | 10:55 |
| puffisocks | y0 czajkowski | 10:58 |
| ebel | yo | 11:13 |
| automaciej | does anyone have experience with precise-based netbooks? I've got a eeepc with a 4GB hard drive. I installed lubuntu-desktop, and it left me with 180MB of free space on disk,lol. | 12:29 |
| automaciej | the needs are: connect to a wifi network, fire up a web browser and play a youtube video (html5 is enough, no flashplayer needed) | 12:30 |
| automaciej | I tried to fiddle with installing fluxbox and network-manager by hand, but it was generally unsuccessful. I didn't know what the right mix of packages is. | 12:31 |
| automaciej | networkmanager cli din't want to work, and the sound wouldn't work. | 12:31 |
| czajkowski | automaciej: hmm no chance of increasing the hd? | 12:32 |
| automaciej | hm. potentially yes, if that's the easiest option. | 12:33 |
| automaciej | I was kind of hoping for a known minimal set of packages. | 12:33 |
| automaciej | for example, I started with ubuntu-server which left about 2GB of disk free. | 12:33 |
| automaciej | I was thinking: How much more could a minimal desktop take? X.org is something like 60GB. A browser is another 60GB. | 12:33 |
| czajkowski | automaciej: have you askked in lubuntu channel | 12:34 |
| czajkowski | they may know how to tweak it | 12:34 |
| automaciej | no, this is the first channel I'm trying. | 12:34 |
| automaciej | I might try with passing --no-install-recommends | 12:34 |
| automaciej | I haven't tried that one yet. | 12:34 |
| czajkowski | ok | 12:35 |
| * automaciej joins the lubuntu channel | 12:36 | |
| czajkowski | they may know more | 12:37 |
| czajkowski | automaciej: sorry I'm not more help | 12:37 |
| automaciej | redirection to #lubuntu is good help, thanks! | 12:38 |
| ebel | automaciej: odd that the default install takes ~ 3.8ishGB | 12:52 |
| ebel | maybe start removing packages. Remove openoffice/libreoffice? | 12:52 |
| puffisocks | automaciej: maybe try debian minimal? should be about 300mb or less | 12:53 |
| ebel | automaciej: The "dpigs" command line programme shows you what packages are using lots of disk space | 12:53 |
| ebel | Go through that and remove things? | 12:54 |
| ebel | You could try removing any music/video players? | 12:54 |
| slashbel | 'apt-get clean' may help | 12:55 |
| automaciej | ebel: libreoffice is not installed; the dpigs utility looks very useful, I'm removing some packages, let me see how much space I can free up. | 14:19 |
| automaciej | with the packages, it could be more of a long tail thing, it's the many small packages that amount for the most space taken | 14:20 |
| automaciej | ok, almost 800MB of free space now | 14:22 |
| czajkowski | yay | 14:24 |
| czajkowski | making progress | 14:24 |
| automaciej | 848MB. I declare it good enough for now. | 14:27 |
| automaciej | ebel++ | 14:28 |
| czajkowski | brilliant | 14:28 |
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| fivepoundnote | I can't open the Network Panel from the top panel, as advised in Help for connecting to wireless. I've used nm-tools and gone through troubleshooting. All was well on home wireless network, but couldn't select wireless networks in cafes, although nm-tools and diagnostics told me they were being detected. I just couldn't select by opening network panel as suggested. I (foolishly) removed | 18:38 |
| fivepoundnote | Network Manager, and tried to re-install. Now it is telling me it cannot access the internet to install. Surpise! Now no longer working on home wireless network. How will I tackle re-installing without a network connection? Accessing internet now through windows machine. Grrr... | 18:38 |
| fivepoundnote | download a .tar.gz and install? Is that a reasonable strategy? | 18:48 |
| automaciej | fivepoundnote: static configuration via /etc/network/interfaces? | 20:32 |
| automaciej | you'd have to look up how to configure wpa_supplicant. | 20:34 |
| fivepoundnote | thanks automaciej, I'll check that out. | 21:25 |
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