| genii | Any idea how much space an ARM install takes? I'm putting it on an 8G sdcard and like to get an idea how much room to play with after | 05:14 |
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| ianorlin | I don't really have the arm hardware so I can't tell you about that | 05:23 |
| holstein | !arm | 05:25 |
| ubottu | ARM is a specific (RISC) processor architecture used in a variety of applications such as handhelds and networkdevices. For more information see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM . For ARM specific support, stop by the #ubuntu-arm channel. | 05:25 |
| holstein | well.. thats just the iso size.. | 05:26 |
| holstein | i cant imagine it ending up any larger than a stock i386 install.. probably quite similar bases | 05:26 |
| anut | Hello, everyone. Might I ask some help with a problem I'm having? | 10:04 |
| Silverlion | don't ask if you are allowed to ;) just ask | 10:05 |
| Silverlion | we'll see how we could help | 10:05 |
| hateball | !ask | 10:06 |
| ubottu | Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-) See also !patience | 10:06 |
| anut | Fair enough. :) I just installed Lubuntu 12.04 on a fairly ancient machine I'm planning on gifting to someone. The ethernet connection worked fine during install, but after installing, it says that it's disconnected. ifconfig shows an eth0 connection, with zero packets sent / recieved. | 10:10 |
| Silverlion | anut first of all you should not take 12.04 because it reached end of support long time ago | 10:12 |
| Silverlion | I'd suggest you try 14.04.1 LTS | 10:12 |
| anut | Bleh - I picked up an Ubuntu CD I had on my desk and read the label, 12.10. The one I'm using in this machine is in fact 14.10. Sorry, I'm tired - been banging my head on this for a bit. :) | 10:14 |
| Silverlion | anut: how old is that machine? older than 10 years? | 10:15 |
| anut | Not sure. It's running an Athlon 64 with a gig of RAM, onboard ethernet, plus a hard drive and CD-ROM from The Parts Box. | 10:15 |
| Silverlion | well 1 gig RAM for a 64 bit sounds a little to weak for my understanding | 10:16 |
| Silverlion | you might want to test xubuntu instead | 10:16 |
| hateball | It's not like having 1GB of RAM will magically make your ethernet not work | 10:17 |
| anut | If xubuntu would work better on older hardware, willing to give it a try, definitely. I'd been thinking of Linux Mint, too - I'm told it works pretty well on less powerful machines. | 10:19 |
| Silverlion | anut: I'd go for xubuntu in a secondary step. but another thing is: have you had a read in the ubuntu forums? there are lots of threads about that problem | 10:20 |
| Silverlion | anut: have a read of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2210921 f. ex | 10:21 |
| anut | I'd done some googling and checked out a few forum threads - a lot of them discussed machines that hadn't had the ethernet work even during installation. Hadn't seen the one you just linked, though. Giving it a read now. | 10:21 |
| anut | This thread seems to be talking about someone who's got working wired and no wireless, though. | 10:24 |
| Silverlion | it says you should re-install linux-firmware-nonfree | 10:27 |
| Silverlion | that might do the trick | 10:27 |
| anut | Let me see how that goes. | 10:28 |
| anut | Unable to locate package linux-firmware-nonfree. Well, there's maybe a problem. | 10:30 |
| anut | Hmm. With no internet connection, can I download the package to a portable disk and sneakernet it over to this machine? | 10:31 |
| anut | Giving that a try... | 10:34 |
| just4humans | hi | 10:36 |
| hateball | anut: linux-firmware-nonfree is in multiverse, that repo may not be enabled | 10:36 |
| Silverlion | just4humans: o/ | 10:37 |
| anut | Just downloaded it from the Ubuntu site and walked it over with my portable disk. Which the lubuntu machine isn't talking to properly - rebooting with it plugged in, seeing if it mounts properly... | 10:39 |
| anut | And linux-firmware-nonfree is installed. Reboot again, see if the internet works? | 10:41 |
| Silverlion | I'd give it a try ;) | 10:43 |
| anut | Done. Still reads disconnected. Unplugged and replugged the cable, and it went through a 'wait' icon for a little while, looked connected for like a second, and then disconnected again. -_- | 10:46 |
| Silverlion | anut: then I'd suggest you put a question up at ask ubuntu .com or join lubuntu facebook group where you can post your case | 10:56 |
| anut | All right. I'll play around with it a bit, and see if ask.ubuntu.com can help out - but first, I think I'm going to sleep, before I attempt any percussive maintenance. :) Thanks for the help. | 10:59 |
| Silverlion | hi leszek | 11:22 |
| MManuela | Hi. Do you know if there is any improvement on the "random: nonblocking pool is initialized" malfunction that halts the booting process? | 12:48 |
| Dd_fr | hi. I want to try Lubuntu on Eee PC Asus seashell series (netbook). I've never used linux before... | 12:49 |
| Dd_fr | no sorry | 12:58 |
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| b43help | help, my laptop wireless isnt working, i get b43 error during boot, please? | 19:29 |
| holstein | !broadcom | b43help | 19:29 |
| ubottu | b43help: Help with Broadcom bcm43xx can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx | 19:29 |
| potatobreath | trying to run lubuntu in virtualbox and this happens when I choose to either run it as live OS or install it. http://i.imgur.com/2UEeYFI.png | 19:56 |
| holstein | !nomodeset | 19:56 |
| ubottu | A common kernel (boot)parameter is nomodeset, which is needed for some graphic cards that otherwise boot into a black screen or show corrupted splash screen. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 on how to use this parameter | 19:56 |
| holstein | potatobreath: or, i would try getting the guest additions installed via the commandline.. in.. | 19:57 |
| holstein | !tty | 19:57 |
| ubottu | To get to the TTY terminals 1-6, use the keystroke ctrl + alt + F1-F6 respectively (Alt+F7 will get you back to your graphical login). To change the resolution for your TTY, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ChangeTTYResolution | 19:57 |
| potatobreath | holstein: how will guest additions install before the OS does? | 19:57 |
| holstein | potatobreath: it wont | 19:57 |
| holstein | potatobreath: you would install, and then add that | 19:57 |
| holstein | !mini | 19:57 |
| ubottu | The Minimal CD image is very small in size, and it downloads most packages from the Internet during installation, allowing you to select only those you want. The installer is text based (rather than graphical as used on the Desktop DVD). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD | 19:57 |
| holstein | you can use that iso ^ if you cant get the other to work.. | 19:58 |
| potatobreath | thanks | 19:58 |
| holstein | then, you can add the guest additions, or whatever else you may need. not sure why you are not just having "automagic" support.. you should | 19:58 |
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