| romare | trying to install lubuntu | 17:22 |
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| romare | The ext4 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed. | 17:22 |
| romare | got this error | 17:22 |
| romare | what would that be? of course I googled it but no solution | 17:23 |
| testdr | romare: that looks like there is no partition table -- more info? | 18:54 |
| romare | testdr what do you mean? forgive me, I'm really new to it | 18:58 |
| romare | I clicked "do something else" and new there's a free space | 18:58 |
| testdr | romare: its what i said -- such error can be triggered if the writing is not possible | 18:58 |
| romare | with 40GB | 18:58 |
| romare | you mean it's hardware-related? | 18:59 |
| testdr | romare: could be - but you can create such things. If you install from an usb-stick - first dont do the install, run the live-version and try to partiition and format your medium, where you want to install later --this is to check for errors. Without errors its not necessary. | 19:00 |
| romare | shall I format it in what type? ext4? | 19:02 |
| romare | I'm running it on cd right now | 19:02 |
| testdr | romare: yes - and mount it then from your running ubuntu-live-version and check it works -- same goes for all your hardware if you dont know. | 19:03 |
| romare | I'm so sorry, what do you mean by mounting? | 19:03 |
| romare | ok it's formatting. gosh looks like it'll take too much time | 19:04 |
| testdr | romare: if you have a faulty harddisk - you may have to run a "badblocks"-check and if there are a lot of errors you may need a replacement | 19:04 |
| testdr | romare: if formating takes a lot of time - check the error logs like syslog, kern.log -- and if there are a lot of read/write errors and timeouts for this drive .. it may be old and defective | 19:05 |
| romare | it's pretty old, but I'm quite sure there's no problem with the disc | 19:06 |
| romare | I need to know how to check those logs | 19:06 |
| testdr | romare: the logs are in /var/log and i already had a faulty drive with defect cables - changing the cables was the repair - but i too had defect drives with defect drive-head | 19:07 |
| testdr | romare: this is only a check - it only proves where to look for errors and maybe the cause, why the installation breaks at that point | 19:08 |
| romare | can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda2 | 19:12 |
| romare | this is what I saw couple of times in the logs | 19:13 |
| romare | I've tried installing arch linux a week ago, I remember I typed shitloads of commands with "sda" | 19:15 |
| romare | I wonder if that fucked it up | 19:15 |
| testdr | romare: sometimes it helps to blank the first part of harddisk and create a new partition -- you know how to blank sda with dd command? | 19:33 |
| romare | no | 19:34 |
| romare | :( | 19:34 |
| romare | I'm super new | 19:34 |
| testdr | romare: and always remember - old data will be lost! You need a backup! | 19:34 |
| romare | I'm not concerned about the data. it's an old computer that I'm not using | 19:34 |
| osho0000 | hi guys i can't get the speed of the momory of my laptop with sudo dmidecode | grep -A 15 Memory nor with sudo lshw -short -C memory | 19:35 |
| testdr | romare: if you dont need anything from your first harddisk sda, then you can blank it in a linux terminal/console as root (or with sudo) with this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda and after some harddisk-action you can terminate it with ctrl/strg-c or use the count-option ( count=10000 ) to stop it after such number of writen blocks | 19:36 |
| testdr | osho0000: check the bios settings -- and from the boot-meny try the "memtest" program -- it will display the timing it can measure | 19:38 |
| osho0000 | so, i must go in the Bios? | 19:39 |
| testdr | osho0000: normaly the compute-boot will show bios-messages about such things - but if bios is set to boot quick, you have no time to read it (humans are too slow) | 19:40 |
| romare | testdr, thank you so much for all the answers | 20:04 |
| osho0000 | redwolf in the bios i can't find the mhz od the ram | 20:13 |
| osho0000 | only the size | 20:15 |
| redwolf | in the BIOS? | 20:15 |
| redwolf | well, that will depend on your computer and core version | 20:16 |
| redwolf | but osho0000, if you want to know your memory and other physical things about your computer use Hardware Profiler | 20:16 |
| osho0000 | it is a program? | 20:17 |
| testdr | romare: if you install for a special language setting - then it may help to cut the internet during the first install and install language-parts later, after you are shure the install works | 20:19 |
| romare | testdr, I installed and restarted it. now it won't boot to lubuntu. it says "out of range" (it's the monitor's interface) for a while and then screen goes dark and the led of the monitor becomes orange. | 20:23 |
| testdr | romare: yes - could happen with some hardware. Does it work to switch to a console with ctrl/strg alt F1 (all pressed together) | 20:26 |
| romare | forgive me, what is strg? | 20:27 |
| romare | oh oh okay | 20:28 |
| romare | at what screen should I press them? | 20:28 |
| testdr | romare: the same like "ctrl" .. some keyboards have this written on --its the key left from alt | 20:28 |
| romare | nothing works | 20:31 |
| testdr | romare: then reboot and in the grub-boot-menu select the repair option to boot into the non-graphic-screen --- looks like your install uses a setting for a wrong monitor or graka-output. You know what graphic-card is used? | 20:33 |
| testdr | romare: to get into the boot-menu (if it is not enabled to pop up) press Shift-key at booting | 20:33 |
| Chaotic_Fear | Heya. How can I make desktop notifications play an alert sound in Lubuntu? Google has failed me. | 20:34 |
| testdr | romare: the menu-entry in the gub-boot-menu is in an submenu called "extended" or advanced and there it is called "recovery mode" | 20:37 |
| testdr | romare: if you can use google for more infos - there are web-hints with images how to get into the ubuntu recovery mode and reset drivers like a wrong graphic-card-driver | 20:38 |
| cimbakahn | Hello! | 20:48 |
| cimbakahn | Does Lubuntu come with PPAs when it is first installed? | 20:48 |
| cimbakahn | How fast is Lubuntu? | 20:49 |
| krytarik | cimbakahn: Nope. Very. | 20:52 |
| Unit193 | No official Ubuntu flavor does. | 20:52 |
| cimbakahn | You mean no official flavor in the Ubuntu camp comes with PPAs, correct? | 20:53 |
| cimbakahn | And it is very fast, yes? | 20:54 |
| testdr | cimbakahn: if you speak about 32bit-enhanced memory usage for old computers - only very old ones had it enabled, its a kernel-build thing | 20:55 |
| testdr | cimbakahn: a think ubuntu-10.04 or 8.04 32bit had it as default | 20:55 |
| cimbakahn | I just want a operating system that is lite on CPU and resorce usage. | 20:56 |
| cimbakahn | resource | 20:56 |
| testdr | cimbakahn: sorry -- what you tink is PPA -- do i understand it wrong? | 20:57 |
| Unit193 | testdr: PPA == Personal Package Archive (or something like that.) | 20:58 |
| testdr | Unit193: thanks .. right -- i thought (why? dont know) its the access to extended memory in old 32bit mode | 21:01 |
| Unit193 | testdr: Tjat | 21:01 |
| Unit193 | Erm.. | 21:01 |
| Unit193 | That's PAE. | 21:01 |
| cimbakahn | A PPA is what you paste into your sources to be able to get extra programs that normally don't come with the distro. <---- These PPAs is what i wanted to know about. | 21:01 |
| testdr | Unit193: yes .. thats the 3 chars .. i got into mind | 21:01 |
| romare | testdr I press shift but it won't work | 21:02 |
| romare | fuck I gotta walk my dog | 21:03 |
| romare | it's not a good day | 21:03 |
| Unit193 | romare: No cursing please. | 21:04 |
| testdr | romare: you have a "long way" to fix it, first check this for press SHIFT at boot: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16042/how-to-get-to-the-grub-menu-at-boot-time | 21:05 |
| testdr | romare: a single press of SHIFT is not enough -- you have to keep it down or click it all the time at boot | 21:07 |
| romare | it's cancer. I stop now | 21:48 |
| romare | for a long time. | 21:48 |
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