Comments on: Install Lubuntu 20.04 – A Lightweight Linux Desktop Environment

By: Tank0

Tank0 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:12:53 +0000

A charity I volunteer for recently got donated 10 HP Probook 650G1’s. These laptops are going to be used for students in a school in the developing world (no local tech support). I didn’t feel comfortable installing Win X on them and no money for licenses so I figured Lubuntu was ideal. I’m no expert but I’m doing what is explained at https://manual.lubuntu.me/stable/1/1.3/installation.html

Since they have EUFI I need to use manual partitioning. I created a primary 6GB Fat32 partition mounted with “/boot/efi” ( flags bios-grub and boot ).

I created a second partition 115 GB Ext4 mounted with / (root) (flags root and boot ) for Lubuntu.

Install goes well but when I reboot after I removed the USB stick ( RUFUS ISO Lubuntu 20.04 ) I keep getting the message “Boot device Not Found – Please install an operating system on your hard disk.”

I tried making the second partition a Primary and I got it to work once by making the second partition an Extended / Logical partition but I can’t seem to repeat my “success”. ( I’ve been trying for days, don’t know what I did exactly to get the first one to work anymore :(

Can anyone of you Lubuntu experts give me any advice?

By: Radek MOrek

Radek MOrek — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:38:22 +0000

In reply to psciascia. I made USB LUBUNTU from an ISO file by RUFUS. I want to install the system on the SSD inside of my old laptop. Everything is ok to moment when pressing INSTALL (your point 9.)... and installer collapsed without any information but the system from USB is still full operating.

By: Former LXDE user

Former LXDE user — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:45:36 +0000

In reply to psciascia. ANYONE THINKING of changing desktops? If you loved Lubuntu 18.04 and earlier with LXDE, but don’t like the new Lubuntu with LXQT, then you’ll love Mate Ubuntu using the Redmond Desktop setting. You will be able to carry on productively without missing a beat. Additional memory usage was more than acceptable for the Mate version. More advanced users may like Debian LXDE, but that may not be available much longer, either. Since you’re going to try something new, you may find Knoppix to be a great joy, too. I tried about 20 different distros and decided based upon having an old PC that Mate Ubuntu with Redmond desktop setting was the way to go.

By: psciascia

psciascia — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:38:26 +0000

It’s a pretty easy install and I’ve done it since version 14. However, version 20.04 has been making me sweat for two days, especially since I decided to start fresh on a laptop that I don’t use often but was running 18.04 without issue for quite a while.

The disk was previously partitioned to dual boot with windows 7, but this time, I used the “erase disk” option. I should mention that this was the first time I installed via USB.

On my first run, ut installed correctly, but I required the USB to boot (it did not boot off the HDD). On reinstall, I noticed that by default, the storage device and boot loader location was sda, the USB drive.

When I tried to install on sdb, the HDD, I got an error saying it could not create the msdos partition table. So I tried a third time with manual partitioning and deleted the existing sdb and recreating an ext4 partition. This time the installer succeeded, but still, it is not booting off the HDD, and since I did not overwrite sda, when I boot off the USB, at least I get to try another reinstall.

Nothing is working. I have version 18.04 on two other machines running fine, but I won’t upgrade until I get this problem figured out.

Oh by the way, on the first attempt, where it seemed to have installed on the usb, I tried running boot-repair, but to no avail.

Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks

By: Lucas Recoaro

Lucas Recoaro — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:38:19 +0000

Thanks so much, good guide.