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[Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK, some testing done. Just FYI, whether I have a passing md5sum or not I always begin by running the Live CD "self-test" and this one passed with no errors. I find it's always best to double-check even though I've had less than 1% of my burns fail ......... I'm kind of anal retentive about such things ;^)

Anyway I've completed an "entire disc" install and an "auto-resize" install with only very minor issues:

#1: As you said clicking on Install from the boot menu still brings up the live desktop.

#2: Choosing "login automatically" during installation does not work.

#3: There is no "slide-show" during installation but to be honest I prefer that :^)

#4: The upstream bug #539027 (IO error after CD is ejected at end of install), but just like the live usb-creator problem these are Ubuntu issues so we just need to link to Ubuntu release notes I'd think.

But otherwise I find things to be quite usable, even that version of pcmanfm seems quite intuitive. Due to poor eyesight I keep a custom xorg.conf on my flash drive and I always copy it to home using pcmanfm, then use the terminal with "sudo" to move it to /etc/X11, and it just works great as does browsing through multiple other OS's and data partitions.

IMHO there are no real show-stopper bugs in this iso, although I know from having played with Lubuntu on my old Micron w/335mhz PII and 256MB RAM that installing from live does not work, but generally installing by choosing install from the boot menu will, so we'd probably be doing somewhat low-spec users a favor by having that work.

NOTE: That old PII 335mhz is painfully slow with Lubuntu, but no slower than Win XP. Puppy is a somewhat better fit but it gives me fits with my wired router whereas Lubuntu has no connection problems at all.

Sorry to get a bit off topic. It looks to me like you're very close on this and just FYI I'm testing on actual hardware:

Intel Atom 230 CPU @ 1.60GHz
System Memory 2GB DIMM
Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics

Thanks again for all your hard work,

Lance

--- On Sun, 7/31/11, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Second Test Lubuntu Lucid 10.04.3 ISO image available
To: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, July 31, 2011, 11:37 PM

On 07/31/2011 06:09 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:

> HOWEVER: *first*, the 10.04.3 image needs to work as designed, and
> actually install to a hard disk :)  ...


Well, I'm a significant step closer. A file called
lubuntu-lucid-20110801-i386.iso is being uploaded to Phill W's site as I
type.  It still has a non-functional "Install Lubuntu" menu item, but
the "Try Lubuntu without installing" one now has an appropriate
installer icon on the desktop, and clicking it works, allowing you to
install Lubuntu 10.04.3 to your hard drive.  At least, it works for me
in VirtualBox.

Once the upload finishes, it should available using

  wget -c http://phillw.net/lubuntu-lucid-20110801-i386.iso

I'm not sure how much more time I will be able to spend on this during
the work week, so I'm uploading a second test 10.04.3 ISO that I know
still has at least one significant flaw.  If anyone out there is
expecting a "real" fully working and fully tested Lubuntu 10.04.3
release image, then "These are not the ISOs you are looking for" :)

Jonathan

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