[03:23] <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
[22:42] <Hanit> Hello, can anyone help me out with a tool that I can use for my project
[22:43] <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
[22:44] <Hanit> I do have a 4gb flash drive. How can I use my flashdrive to install Lubuntu onto my computer?
[22:46] <Hanit> note, I'm not really interested in a live Lubuntu for trial purposes. I want to install Lubuntu onto my hard drive
[22:47] <Hanit> Unless that live instance can also be used to install the OS onto my hard drive
[22:51] <krytarik> Hanit: Yes, it can.
[23:41] <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
[23:42] <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
[23:43] <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
[23:44] <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
[23:45] <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
[23:47] <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
[23:48] <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
[23:49] <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
[23:50] <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?
[23:51] <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)
[23:53] <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
[23:54] <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
[23:55] <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
[23:56] <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
[23:57] <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
[23:59] <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