in line answers... 2013/6/17 Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjja...@gmail.com>
> Hello, > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Iberê Fernandes < > ibere.fernan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Hardware has been cleaned and Ubuntu 10.04 is installed again. >> > > Obviously, that lead me to a guess that it is a Kernel Issue or could be a > driver issue. > Ubuntu 10.04 Kernel does support some old hardware. Later one, starting > from 10.10, some support had been dropped, that is exactly why we keep > Lubuntu 10.04 available for people to install, or to be more accurate (I > just checked our Wiki > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/PreviousReleases and > moergaes<https://launchpad.net/~moergaes> has > removed that part about Lubuntu 10.04 or maybe someone else did). Anyway, > we kept Lubuntu 10.04 on our area for all that time for that reason. > > I am NOT asking or telling to keep an old version, I'm just guessing that > could be the issue :) > Next weekend I'll try Lubuntu 10.04 on that desktop. > > > >> Somehow I did not manage to install neither Lubuntu 12.04 nor Lubuntu >> 12.10. >> > > 1GB RAM is WAY TOO MUCH and NO WAY the installer will fail due to the RAM. > Unless, something is seriously wrong. > > > As Jonathan suggested, have you checked the RAM? > > When booting the machine, can you go to "Try Lubuntu without installation" > and see the Live Desktop? > > Menu > System > Task Manager > What does it say? 1024MB RAM? > Task Man says 1024MB both from Live Desktop and installed Ubuntu 10.04. > > Just out of curiosity, have you considered to try Saucy? > At first I wanted to install one of the production Lubuntus. But I can try Saucy too next weekend. > > With old HDD, I have an approach, it helped me each and every time I do > it. Using GParted, I wipe the whole HDD by creating new Partition Table. > > What is the Size of your HDD? > Few times, I had to use 'dd' but these are rare cases when I had to do it. > > IMHO, I do NOT think it is a memory issue that crashed the installer. > > Sometimes, the fix is really easy that we don't even see or notice. I'm > interested a lot to get this machine up and running. > > From LiveCD, what does: > > sudo lshw -C display > > show? > > Have you tried 12.04 and 13.04? > > I do hope you won't give up and try more :) > I'm very interested in this so keep me updated, please! > Don't worry. I did not give up. But only on weekends I'll have time to start testing again. I'm very interested in spreading Lubuntu in Brazil, specially for those with old/low specs hardware that think Lubuntu cannot be powerful and beautiful compared to Ubuntu. You'll hear from this desktop in a few days again. ;-) Thank you! > > -- > > "All of us are smarter than any one of us." > > *Best Regards,* > *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>* > *Start > Ubuntu<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu> > * > > *Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - **Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with > 489MB RAM* > >
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