[Rustington] UBUNTU 12.04 LTS RELEASE

[Stuart McFadyen]

12,04 LTS will not load on my ageing Laptop as the kernel requires PAE enabled [page extension >4GB]. Unfortunately  Pentium M does not support PAE.
No problems though on the Intel Atom netbook .... Ah progress eh ?
I had none of the problems Paul had on my Desktop, newer version of Pentium.
Stuart.

-original message-
Subject: Re: [Rustington] UBUNTU 12.04 LTS RELEASE
From: Paul Willis <phwillis at gmail.com>
Date: 28/04/2012 2:01 am

I got the x64 desktop on thurs and quickly put it on a bootable stick
which I ran live on a u3a laptop at the sussex lug. All well. When I
got home I started to upgrade this machine which had been happy on
11.10, and went to bed.... In the morning the machine was off so I
restarted it and as if from sleep it put me straight back to the
middle of the upgrade but with some problem that I cleared and it
continued. I went out for a few hours and returned to find it stuck
again waiting to tell me something needed replacing so I OKed and off
it went again. This repeated several times over the following hours
until it finally seemed happy and I let it reboot. On logging in I had
a blank screen - no menu, no launcher and no keyboard shortcuts I
could think of. A right click to change desktop background let me into
settings where eventually I set the usual control-alt-t to open the
gnome terminal. (cont-alt F1 etc had worked for the tty terms and I
had killed my way out of some sessions). I was able to run a 2D login
OK with the usual unity stuff and I have changed my nvidia driver
twice to try and get 3D working without success so far. I can at least
raise a terminal and run firefox, but I have to say as an upgrade this
has been a total pain. I think I'm going to try a fresh install if I
cant frighten this system into behaving soon! As I said the live cd
version was fine on a laptop which I'll try upgrading later...


On 26 April 2012 17:50, Stuart McFadyen
<stuart.624mcfadyen at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just loaded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release and all seem to be fine, apart
> from the fact that my ageing PC ( I am not into games ! ), does not have
> graphics support for the HUD (head Up Display) function.
>
> Maybe my "live" 12.04 DVD could be loaded onto a modern laptop next week ?
> (Please Derek !)
>
> I will bring a .ISO memorystick copy of 12.04 to the meeting, if anyone
> would like to copy the file for burning.
>
> It must be burnt to a DVD due to the file size.
>
> Stuart.
>
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