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Kamilionoh, the guy from #libreboot's here.00:31
Kamilionguess he took my advice about learning more linux00:31
Kamilion(the bobsmith83 guy)00:31
wxlyeah he's been around quite a bit actually00:32
KamilionIIRC he's on some kind of freshly cleaned acer chromebook00:32
Kamilionhas no idea what he's doing in linux00:32
GuyFawkesHello - Can anyone tell me what the differences are between lubuntu, lubuntu laptop and openbox?  I discovered that at sign-in the other day and laptop seems to work best on my machine14:11
GuyFawkestesting...is anybody out there?14:25
pleia2could be no one lurking knows the answer right now :) feel free to hang around14:26
GuyFawkesYeah, that's the plan.  I can't even find anything in the support docs, so...hoping at least for a link.14:28
Dishonoredhello, guys i recently installed a font, and opened leafpad and tried changing a text to that font, its shows correctly in the preview but doesn't work in the actual text.14:37
JohnDoe_71Rusmost of the documentation is shared with ubuntu14:37
GuyFawkesMost eh?  keep looking is what you're saying?14:50
GuyFawkesok, maybe something easier then, for someone fairly new to *ubuntu:  Software update launches, tells me there are updates, I click install and it fails.  what can I do on the command line?15:00
boi222hey can anyone help me with a boot issue? i installed lubuntu in a vm but when the vm restarted, i only see a blank screen. i've tried several restarts16:43
bobsmith83good morning.  i must be a total moron, because I've spent almost an entire day, and still cannot seem to complete a simple task: copy a .img file from HDD to SD card, then copy it back to another machines HDD to create a backup17:55
bobsmith83can anyone hold my hand please and try and explain this mount thing? gahhh!17:56
wxlyou have both things mounted? if so, where?17:57
bobsmith83well, when i do fdisk -l, i see the sd card as /dev/sdb17:57
wxlmount is where you see things are mounted17:58
bobsmith83the hdd is mounted all four partitions, contains os, etc17:58
wxlif you don't see sdb-something there, you don't have it mounted17:58
wxlif it's not mounted you can't use it17:58
bobsmith83ok, how and where to mount then?  I've tried...17:59
wxlyou need to create a directory to mount it to17:59
wxlyou could for example:18:00
wxlsudo mkdir -p /mnt/sdcard18:00
bobsmith83ok, cant i just mount it to /media, or /mnt?18:00
wxlmount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdcard18:00
wxlassuming it does actually have a partition on it and 1 is the partition you wish to mouhnt18:00
wxlwell you need to put it in a folder within /media or /mnt or else it makes the whole thing useless to anything else18:01
wxlyou CAN do it, but you don't want to :)18:01
bobsmith83maybe thats the problem.  It has no partitions.  i used "disks" to format it with no partitions18:01
bobsmith83so, do i need to create partitions first?18:02
bobsmith83I made the dir successfully...18:04
bobsmith83looks like it.  so, how to do that? back to "disks" and reformat it wiht other options?18:06
wxlyes you need to create the partitions, bobsmith8318:06
bobsmith83maybe with "disks" or "gparted"?18:07
wxlwell a partition :)18:07
bobsmith83or cmd line...18:07
wxleither would work18:07
bobsmith83i want to learn cmd line solid.  can you walk me thru it? if you have time?18:07
wxlcfdisk is fairly friendly command line wise18:07
wxlotherwise it's fdisk you need to use18:08
wxlcfdisk is an example of a CLI utility with a visual UI18:08
bobsmith83lets try fdisk18:08
wxlsudo fdisk /dev/sdb18:09
wxlstart with the command p to see what's there18:09
wxlassuming there are indeed no partitions (/dev/sdb[1..n])18:09
wxlthen i'd start by changing units18:10
wxlto gb18:10
wxlwith u18:10
wxloh fooey18:11
wxli guess that's not an option on this version. annoying........18:11
bobsmith83lol18:11
wxlwhatever18:11
wxlfor fun you can create a new partition table with o18:12
wxlthen n for a new partition18:12
bobsmith83lots of "annoying" things coming from my dos background and trying to learn new language18:12
wxlmake it primary18:12
wxlgive it a number (probably 1)18:12
wxlthe first sector should be 018:13
bobsmith83first cylinder, 2 default?18:13
wxlthen the last sector can be the end or you can use +8G e.g.18:13
wxloh yeah you're on cylinders18:13
wxlsure18:14
bobsmith83ok, did defaults for clyinders.  back to command18:14
wxlso p to print again, make sure everything looks right18:15
wxlyou can pastebin it somewhere if you want to make sure18:15
bobsmith83i think i have a partition now!18:15
bobsmith83time to mount?18:15
wxlalmost18:15
bobsmith83?18:16
wxlso if you're sure that's right you need to write it with w18:17
wxlnow you've done the first step18:17
wxlit still doesn't have a filesystem on it18:17
wxlyou want to use this for linux only or you want this to be compatible with windows, etc?18:17
bobsmith83i c.  it looks right18:18
bobsmith83i dont know.  I thought I'd do it just linux, but would be better if I could do compatible with windows fat18:18
wxlsudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb118:19
bobsmith83I already did " mkfs -t ext4 ..." but that was before partition, so maybe it didnt do anything18:20
wxlyeah probably not. and windows won't like ext418:20
bobsmith83I'm still in fdisk.  how do i exit?18:20
wxl   w    write table to tidks and exit18:21
wxlhahahah well, disk18:21
bobsmith83k18:21
bobsmith83created fat file system18:22
wxlnow mount it18:23
bobsmith83k18:23
bobsmith83success!18:25
wxlbtw took you through "the hard way"18:26
wxlthe easy way is parted18:26
wxlthe really easy way is cfdisk18:26
bobsmith83of course18:26
bobsmith83now, id like to create a file, save it on the hard disk, copy it to the sd card, then copy it back to the hd in a different sopt18:27
wxli assume you can create the file and save it XD18:28
wxlone you have the file:18:28
wxlcp /path/to/file /mnt/sdcard (or whatever you called it)18:28
wxlctually18:28
wxlactually18:28
wxlcp /path/to/file /mnt/sdcard/18:28
wxlthat slash will ensure it goes IN the directory, though usually collisions won't happen, it's good practice18:29
wxlcp /mnt/sdcard/file /path/to/new/file/location18:29
bobsmith83ok, whats the txt editor that comes in lubuntu? so i can create a file?18:30
wxlyou can create a file (without adding anything to it):18:31
wxltouch file18:31
wxlthere you have a file18:31
wxlif you want to edit it, nano is a command line utility, but i prefer vi (though it takes some understanding to figure out how to use it. it's very powerful but not immediately intuitive)18:31
bobsmith83found it: leafpad...18:31
wxlthere's that too18:32
wxlif you want GUIs18:32
wxlbut that would be cheating, technically XD18:32
bobsmith83lol18:32
bobsmith83gonna try cp it now...18:33
bobsmith83brb18:34
bobsmith83error: cannot create regular file: /mnt/sdb1/": not a directory18:37
bobsmith83sudo?18:38
wxlshould NEED to sudo it18:38
wxlwhat's that "?18:38
bobsmith83typo18:38
wxlis the location actually /mnt/sdb1 and not /mnt/sdcard?18:38
wxlyou can always `ls /path/to/directory` to see if it exists18:39
bobsmith83my mistake.18:39
bobsmith83worked! now, going to copy it back to another dir...18:40
bobsmith83amazing- it worked!  thanks again, so much, for your help.  its like learning to walk all over again!  what about using dd instead of cp?18:43
wxldd is a bit by bit copy18:43
wxlso it's kind of a different thing18:43
wxlassuming the file contains a file system, dd'ing it will replicate that file system18:44
bobsmith83but you could do dd if=filename of=/dev/sdb1 and it does the same as cp?18:44
wxlno18:45
bobsmith83ok, well, I've heard dd called "disk destroyer" so, I feel like I'd best stear clear of it till I understand it better18:48
wxlthe only time you should really use dd is for copying a disk image onto some media18:48
wxlor you can use it for completely zeroing out a drive18:48
bobsmith83one last thing- is there any special considerations when copying .img files?18:48
wxl.img files are usually like .iso files18:48
wxlthey're disk images18:49
wxlyou can copy them around18:49
wxlbut if you wan tto restore the disk image, you'd use dd18:49
wxlbut it will wipe whatever's in its place18:49
bobsmith83OK, so, I'm making a backup of my bios flash image and trying to copy that file to a back up location18:49
wxlyou can pass the img file around like any other file18:50
bobsmith83can I just cp the flash.img as we've done here?18:50
wxlbut if you want to use it, you'd use dd to put it on an sd card or something of the sort18:50
wxlyep18:50
bobsmith83cool!18:50
bobsmith83my goal here is to replace the bios on this chromebook, with something like libreboot, fyi...18:51
wxlah cool18:52
wxlalso, re: chromebook: my condolences XD18:52
bobsmith83thanks again for you're help.  I;m sure we will be talking mor soon.  btw- what is your relation to lubuntu?18:52
wxli'm one of the release managers (but technically tsimonq2 is in charge) and head of qa18:52
bobsmith83re chromebook- i hope to rid it of crome os and eventually replace it with lxde debian18:53
bobsmith83cool, thanks again!18:53
wxlnp18:53
oki_hello19:41
lubot<tsimonq2> Hey hey19:42
brunomotterhello! I am trying to install Lubuntu 17.10 on an old laptop and if I run from live CD it runs fine, but when I install the graphics get sluggish and with 640X480 resolution! any hints?21:58
tsimonq2brunomotter: What machine are you on?21:59
brunomotterItautec W763021:59
brunomotterCeleron m processor22:00
brunomotter1.5GB RAM22:00
tsimonq2What kind of graphics card?22:00
brunomottervia graphis22:02
brunomotterhttp://suporte.itautec.com.br/eportaldownload_ptb/start.swe?SWERowId=2-AOCM5E&SWEField=s_3_2_24_2&SWERowIds=SWERowId0%3d2-AOCM5E&SWENeedContext=true&SWESP=false&SWEMethod=Drilldown&SWECmd=InvokeMethod&W=t&SWEVI=&SWEPOC=&SWETargetView=&SWEDIC=false&SWEReqRowId=1&SWEView=ITC+Driver+Download+TotalDrivers+Notebook+View&SWETVI=&SWEC=9&SWEM=&SWEBID=-1&SWESPa=&SRN=&SWEContainer=&SWETS=&SWETA=&SWEApplet=ITC+Drivers+Download+TotalDrivers22:04
tsimonq2Hmm.22:05
tsimonq2wxl: See something I'm not?22:05
tsimonq2Otherwise if he doesn't respond soon brunomotter, I'd try #ubuntu.22:06
brunomotterso... I tried ubuntu... it works, but REALLY slow performance22:06
brunomotteron Lubuntu performance is good but no graphics22:06
tsimonq2I mean the IRC channel. This isn't a Lubuntu-specific issue. ;)22:06
brunomotteroh, I see!22:07
brunomotterwell... if he does not respond I will try that then... where can I find Ubuntu IRC?22:07
tsimonq2In your IRC client, type the following: /join #ubuntu22:08
tsimonq2:)22:08
brunomotternice!22:08
brunomotterwill try that22:08
brunomotterthanks for being so helpful22:08
tsimonq2You're welcome, let me know how it goes. :D22:08
brunomotterok!22:09
brunomotterbye22:09
tsimonq2o/22:09
bobsmith83wxl around?22:12
tsimonq2bobsmith83: I can help as well. What's up?22:13
bobsmith83thx.  I'm on to next step: $ git clone https://git.code.paulk.fr/libettereboot.git but I get error:22:14
bobsmith83error: gnutls_handshake() failed” when connecting ...22:14
tsimonq2Let's see if I can reproduce that.22:15
bobsmith83found this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/186847/error-gnutls-handshake-failed-when-connecting-to-https-servers#18719922:16
tsimonq2I wouldn't do that.22:16
bobsmith83i didnt want to22:17
tsimonq2I think it's a server problem, because I can't clone it at all.22:18
bobsmith83like server down, or someting?22:18
tsimonq2Could be.22:18
bobsmith83i c.  so, what does git clone do, roughly?22:19
tsimonq2It takes a remote Git repository hosted on a server somewhere and it pulls all the necessary files that you would need to work with it locally.22:20
bobsmith83ok, cool.  thanks for your help.  I will contact paul and c if he has ideas.  maybe he's working on it or something.  you guys are awesome here.  hope you dont mind me keep bugging u with all these questions!22:21
bobsmith83cheers!22:22
tsimonq2It's all good, cheers :)22:22
wxlthat's up peeps?22:39
tsimonq2yooo22:39
tsimonq2bobsmith83: If you're still around, wxl's here :)22:39
bobsmith83still around indeed.  I got the clone thing rolling.  I'm on a thinkpad t60, wifi adaptor must be old and slow, cause its taking a looong time to pull down files...23:10
bobsmith83still faster than my first machine- commodore64- was soo cool when i could dial up connect to q-link on my 300 baud modem!23:14
wxlbeen there done that, though i had a c12823:14
genii!lunix23:32
ubottuLUnix is a Little Unix for your Commodore 64, dust it off and visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/lng/ !23:32
geniiJust in case you guys still have them kicking around.23:32
wxli wish :(23:34
bobsmith83that would be fun. but its long gone garage sale, no doubt, probably in the 90's23:34
geniiYeah, mine too.23:35
geniiI did hang onto the 1701 for a TV hooked to the VCR for a long time after23:35
* genii wanders back to the coffeepot23:36
bobsmith83got this thinkpenguin usd wifi n dongle.  maybe i should plug it in and see if it magically automatically connects and speeds things up?23:38
wxlworth a shot, bobsmith8323:51

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