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["Goh Lip" <g.lip@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:03:59 +0800, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:20:54 -0400
> Ben Coleman <oloryn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 10/14/2010 07:24 PM, Benny Hult wrote:
> > > But it lacks with packages if you compare to Lubuntu.
> > > Hope we can see you using Lubuntu still in the future, becouse the  
> > grass
> > > ain't greener on the other side of the fence ;)
> >
> > Well, turns out that my other Lubuntu candidate (A Compaq Armada 7800
> > running a PII/266) is i686-class despite being slower than the AMD, so
> > Lubuntu 10.10 should run OK on it, if I can manage to burn a Lubuntu
> > CD-R that it will read (the CDROM reader on this machine tends to be a
> > bit finicky, and it's old enough that I don't think that it will boot
> > from USB Flash).
> It is unfortunate this problem as it mainly effects AMD chips as far as  
> I can gather.   
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/587186I
> One solution if you want to run Lubuntu on the 586 machine would be to  
> use the10.04 (Lucid) version, which is what I’ve done on a couple of  
> machines.
>
> If you’re having problems with the CD drive it may be worth looking at  
> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ which has a couple of ways of booting  
> flash drives, using either a floppy  
> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/use-a-floppy-to-boot-usb-pendrive-linux/#more-294  
> or CD.

Or use an existing grub2 menu and manually boot up the usb OS. Of course,  
you can let the OS with the grub2 generate the usb OS menu with  
update-grub (with the stick attached).

Regards - Goh Lip


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