| iv_tavares | I'm new using linux and I've installed lubuntu in a old notebook that I have but the touchpad or even the mouse are not working properly. The left click doesn't work eveytime | 03:23 |
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| Hanit | Hello, can anyone help me out with a tool that I can use for my project | 22:42 |
| Hanit | I have a laptop with no disk drive but it has a hard drive | 22:43 |
| Hanit | I wish to install lubuntu onto it, but i obviously cannot burn a disk with the installation package | 22:43 |
| Hanit | I do have a 4gb flash drive. How can I use my flashdrive to install Lubuntu onto my computer? | 22:44 |
| Hanit | note, I'm not really interested in a live Lubuntu for trial purposes. I want to install Lubuntu onto my hard drive | 22:46 |
| Hanit | Unless that live instance can also be used to install the OS onto my hard drive | 22:47 |
| krytarik | Hanit: Yes, it can. | 22:51 |
| Hanit | Thanks Krytarik, I've tried making a live disk using unetbootin. I plugged the drive into my computer and booted from the flash drive | 23:41 |
| Hanit | The initial screen asked if i wanted to run the live OS or install it, etc | 23:41 |
| Hanit | But after choosing either of the options, It failed miserably | 23:41 |
| wxl | Hanit: did you have unetbootin download the ISO? | 23:42 |
| Hanit | the screen displayed weird symbols/distorted image, and went black after some time | 23:42 |
| Hanit | it never booted | 23:42 |
| Hanit | no, i got the iso myself | 23:43 |
| wxl | did you check the hashes? | 23:43 |
| Hanit | i chose the desktop x64 iso | 23:43 |
| Hanit | what does it mean to check the hashes? | 23:43 |
| wxl | !md5 | Hanit | 23:43 |
| ubottu | Hanit: To verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which an MD5 checksum is provided), see http://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM or http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LQ_ISO/Checking_the_md5sum_in_Windows | 23:43 |
| wxl | you can find the hashes here: | 23:44 |
| wxl | !hashes | 23:44 |
| ubottu | See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes for the md5sums of all downloadable Ubuntu releases | 23:44 |
| wxl | you should verify the ISO to make sure it downloaded correctly | 23:44 |
| wxl | then when you boot, you should check the media to ensure it copied correctly | 23:44 |
| wxl | barring those issues, my guess is that you're probably having some sort of issue with your graphics card | 23:45 |
| wxl | using e.g. nomodeset to boot might help | 23:45 |
| wxl | !nomodeset | 23:45 |
| 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 | 23:45 |
| Hanit | so i'm unable to access the system32 folder on this windows machine | 23:47 |
| Hanit | it's a school computer here at our computer lab | 23:47 |
| Hanit | i can try the md5 checksum tonight on my own machine | 23:47 |
| Hanit | if indeed the files downloaded and copied over correctly, then it must be nomodeset? | 23:48 |
| Hanit | let me check out how to set that parameter | 23:48 |
| wxl | no, then it must be something else, which is most likely a graphics issue | 23:48 |
| Hanit | right, ok | 23:49 |
| wxl | yuou should be able to hit ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a virtual terminal | 23:49 |
| Hanit | but solving it would be to set the parameter aclled nomodeset | 23:49 |
| wxl | you can login and look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and it should give you some hints | 23:49 |
| wxl | nomodeset is a common fix for graphics problems but it's not necessarily universal | 23:49 |
| Hanit | perhaps i should remind you i am on a windows machine | 23:50 |
| Hanit | win7 i believe | 23:50 |
| Hanit | ctrl+alt+f1 did nothing | 23:50 |
| wxl | that should be irrelevant | 23:50 |
| Hanit | and i dont think terminal exists on windows | 23:50 |
| wxl | while you're looking at the screwy boot screen? | 23:50 |
| Hanit | ohhh, i thought you meant on the other computer which i am using to chat here right now | 23:51 |
| wxl | i mean if your goal is trying to boot linux, you can't do it very well inside windows | 23:51 |
| Hanit | let me give that a shot | 23:51 |
| wxl | (unless you use a virtual machine) | 23:51 |
| Hanit | it will take some time to re-copy the .iso contents using unetbootin again | 23:53 |
| Hanit | meanwhile, please let me briefly explain the pretext of my situation | 23:53 |
| Hanit | I bought a used computer with windows 10 preloaded. Upon powering it up, i discovered I was plagued by this annoying encryption system called bitlocker recovery | 23:54 |
| wxl | brb | 23:55 |
| Hanit | after much fiddling and research i figured out that I genuinely can't get past this bitlocker garbage because it's trying to protect the original user's data | 23:55 |
| Hanit | so i decided to use this opportunity to just get rid of windows altogether... I plan to use this computer for things that dont require windows, and the specs on the machine are just low enough that it would greatly benefit from lubuntu | 23:56 |
| Hanit | or really any linux distro | 23:56 |
| Hanit | so i tried Remix os and lubuntu so far | 23:57 |
| Hanit | both unsuccessful, similar reason. Upon booting from the flash drive I get an ugly garbled splash screen and it never boots | 23:57 |
| Hanit | so now that you know the whole story, i hope you havent determined that my machine isn't capable of running a linux os | 23:59 |
| Hanit | im worried that this bitlocker thing is an unavoidable obstacle or something | 23:59 |
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