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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phill,

Please have a look at this page, where I have tried to add my experience
to the original text (at the page without /JasonOdoom). If you compare
the pages in web browser windows it is easier to see the differences
than comparing the sources (but do both if you want to find all details).

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall/JasonOdoom

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-06-21 01:19, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> usb-creator used to work 'out of the box', currently it does not. This
> does require some more work on. As dd'ing an iso to device is not the
> same as creating a live boot area with persistance, they are two very
> different things. For CLI, I'd have to check what
> 
> apt-get install --no-install-recommends lubuntu-desktop
> 
> 
> does that the two options in tasksel do not. Please do remember that
> that page, like many, was started before lubuntu got adopted and it is
> more than likely that it does need an overhaul. (I'm still chuckling at
> my image having  10.04 lubuntu hard disk there - crikey, I'm getting
> old! :) ). 
> 
> To let you have full freedom to edit, without fear of 'breaking' a
> 'live' wiki page, I've
> updated https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall/JasonOdoom which
> is where we hold our area for that page before it goes fully live.
> (Jason is the TL for lubuntu wiki and has several pages scattered about
> that we update for the forthcoming release to make release day a simple
> case of copy and paste from the new area to the 'live' area).
> 
> Don't worry that they are in his name, I had to think of something to
> name our test pages as without using the release name and so they got
> called after him :)
> 
> For example, you can see that work is already being carried out
> on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu/JasonOdoom by
> Jonathan, which is part of this push to work out what specs we state
> using ZRam... 
> 
> Thanks for your continued work on these unsung but important areas.
> 
> Phill.
> On 20 June 2013 23:49, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi again,
> 
>     Did you misunderstand the bit about USB? It does work with the 13.04
>     mini.iso, and we only need to keep it alive. Maybe it is a good thing to
>     clone the install drive to avoid writing the bootloader into it.
> 
>     What about the advice to use the CLI option instead of the default one
>     at the top of the list?
> 
>     Best regards
>     Nio
> 
>     On 2013-06-21 00:41, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>     > Hi Nio,
>     >
>     > yes, the make usb used to work (the XENVO drive is mine in that
>     section)
>     > and I am aware of work being carried out to make it work again. As we
>     > are still pre-alpha stage, I'm hopeful that a resolution will be found
>     > so making USB pendrives work again before we go to release. I do not
>     > recall which lubunuteer added the stuff for networking, he knows
>     who he
>     > is :) . For such an odd and out of the way wiki page, that it is
>     on edit
>     > #58 does show that people do like to play with what lubuntu can do if
>     > you are prepared to roll your sleeves up and get a bit dirty :)
>     >
>     > Thanks for taking the time to update the area with the current
>     > situation, as with all of our 'How to install using .......'
>     pages, they
>     > are dependant on our great testers and users to keep them up to date.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Phill.