[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 16.04 Alternate from a USB stick No network

[E James]

On 31/05/16 17:50, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote:
> What is your video card?
> 
>     The longer story....
> 
>     I have a Shuttle with an Athlon XP 2000+ cpu and 512MB ram. It is configured for dual boot - Windows (XP Pro) / Linux (now Lubuntu 14.04).
>     It was running Lubuntu 12.04 and I wanted to use ffmpeg but I got an error messsage - "illegal operation" so I thought to upgrade it to 16.04.
>     I have a 32GB usb stick which currently has 21 different boot/install options using YUMI multiboot. I wasn't sure if the PC would boot from it but it did, up to the point of the YUMI menu. Every option I tried from the menu would start to boot and then hang at apparently the same point in the boot process. The PC has a DVD drive but won't boot from DVD, only CD. The 16.04 Alternate iso won't fit on a CD. So I did a distribution upgrade to 14.04 and still ffmpeg wouldn't run. Then I caught on that the version of ffmpeg I was using was too modern for the cpu so I compiled one which worked. I can presumably do another upgrade to 16.04 if I still want it, but not until the option is available from the update manager. Currently the PC is doing what I want it to do ... slowly. I am in no hurry to make further changes.
> 

I'm assuming you are referring to my Shuttle PC. I think this extract from lshw is what you want.

           *-display UNCLAIMED
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]
                vendor: S3 Graphics Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list
                configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=255 mingnt=4
                resources: memory:ec000000-ec07ffff memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:ec080000-ec08ffff

If you're thinking it might have something to do with the failure to boot from usb, there's another idea I stumbled across some time ago, possibly in connection with this PC. Apparently some boot processes temporarily disable the usb controller - not very helpful if you're using it to boot.