Originally Posted by
VinDSL
I really, really, liked Lubuntu, a year or two ago, but moved to regular ol' LXDE/Openbox because Lubuntu started taking forever to load via a USB stick, and the situation was getting worse with each upgrade.
I boot the .iso directly from the hard drive much (!) faster than USB with an entry like this:
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry "saucy64 13.10" {
set isofile="/saucy-desktop-amd64.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,6)$isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz.efi boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}
sudo chmod 777 /etc/grub.d/40_custom
sudo update-grub
boot and choose the entry
where the .iso is on partition 6 in my case, note the hd0,6 which would have to be altered for wherever you put the .iso.
then when the .iso is loaded, do a
sudo umount -rl /dev/sda6
install as normal.
Now note saucy is vmlinux.efi I don't know if the lubuntu vmlinuz is a .efi or not. Under file manager I open the .iso and look into the folder casper to see what the vmlinuz is.
I was running lubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad ~ 2005 vintage, 1.5 gHz Pentium M which ubuntu doesn't support any more. Then the thinkpad died.
This is a 1.66 gHz Atom dual processor 1 GB netbook $250 with a 1600x900 external monitor $89 and wireless keyboard & mouse $20 running saucy ubuntu O.K. I like lubuntu fine provided I installed Firefox and Libre and Nautilus....easier just to run the fatter ubuntu. I'm not a unity fan - I just tolerate it. BTW, seems to me ubuntu is less sluggish on saucy than it was on pangolin.
BTW, booting saucy off a $80 SSD (fast!) USB case $20 because I don't trust the unstable ubuntu development level - could clobber the main hard drive esp. the boot....I keep windows 7 as well as stable ubuntu's on the hard drive for when I pass the pc on....I've had to do a grub rescue several times over the last few months.
Hmmm. Wonder what Peppermint OS is. I occasionally run Linux Mint because it's more user friendly about proprietary code than ubuntu is.
