| === BrianG61UK_ is now known as BrianG61UK | ||
| jbwncster | I’m trying to put lubuntu on my old MacBook hdd | 02:14 |
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| jbwncster | It got stuck on the newest distro so I’m trying 21.04 | 02:14 |
| jbwncster | I know if that works I probably can update it myself | 02:14 |
| jbwncster | It’s stuck creating the initramfs | 02:17 |
| guiverc | jbwncster, Lubuntu 21.04 is EOL & thus unsupported here, only 20.04 LTS & 22.04 LTS are supported (currently) | 03:04 |
| guiverc | jbwncster, https://lubuntu.me/hirsute-eol/ | 03:05 |
| jbwncster | I was going to use it to do the initial install and then update it manually with the terminal | 03:05 |
| jbwncster | But it didn’t work either | 03:06 |
| guiverc | 21.04 release-upgraded to 21.10, but that's not available either as it's EOL too | 03:07 |
| teward | jbwncster: i see guiverc got to you. but yes 21.04 is dead as well. So is 21.10. Lubuntu 20.04 LTS is the only version still supported other than Lbuntu 22.04 | 03:18 |
| teward | so if Lubuntu 22.04 is not able to work on your system then you need to use 20.04 | 03:18 |
| jbwncster | I wasn’t even at that part | 03:18 |
| jbwncster | I was trying to install it on an external hdd | 03:18 |
| jbwncster | It wasn’t even in a machine | 03:19 |
| guiverc | 'it got stuck' tells us nothing, so I can't comment on descriptions like that on your comment ~an hour ago... | 03:21 |
| jbwncster | It was stuck creating initramfs | 03:22 |
| guiverc | You said that with 21.04; we don't support that release. | 03:23 |
| jbwncster | On all the releases | 03:24 |
| teward | you tried 22.04 as well? You also waited because initramfs can take a long time to create if you're using an external hard drive? | 03:24 |
| teward | (USB drives are slow as sin, compared to direct on-board SATA or NVMe) | 03:24 |
| jbwncster | teward: I waited 10 minutes | 03:25 |
| jbwncster | If I had a cd burner I’d be able to install it with the drive inside | 03:26 |
| jbwncster | The old MacBook doesn’t allow booting from usb | 03:26 |
| guiverc | 10 minutes isn't that long (some slow devices can take a looong time), but I'd have switched to a text terminal & explored system logs (journalctl, dmesg etc... for clues) as I'd expect (hope?) to see evidence if it was looping (and not just super-slow)... | 03:26 |
| jbwncster | Yeah | 03:27 |
| jbwncster | Maybe I’ll try again and leave it overnight | 03:27 |
| guiverc | jbwncster, just fyi.. but I'd have tried a xubuntu/kubuntu or other flavor Ubuntu 22.04 instead of 21.10/21.04 (or EOL release).. the initramfs steps are the same for each Ubuntu system (inc. Lubuntu), but other flavors use `ubiquity` installer which can make a difference for some 'strangish' hardware (each installer has its strengths & weaknesses). I'd expect it to end the same, but if didn't I'd then make that the flavor (lubuntu) you | 03:37 |
| guiverc | want... you can use #ubuntu which has more eyes & thus may get reponses (people who use old macbooks with external drives maybe) | 03:37 |
| === BrianG61UK_ is now known as BrianG61UK | ||
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