Ugrade abortion

[Bret Busby]

On 20/01/2022, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 21:47, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have downloaded the ubuntumate 21.10 iso and written it to a usb
>> drive, and booted it.
>>
>> It is unusable.
>>
>> It has no panel or taskbar or menu's. I can get a terminal window and
>> that is all.
>>
>> In doing ls, it shows ubiquity and desktop, in illegible colouring
>> (what brightspark imposed green on white?)
>
> Sounds like it is having graphics driver problems to me.
>
> Do you have another working spare PC? Try Ventoy. It lets you make a
> multiboot key by just copying ISOs to it. It's very easy and
> versatile.
>
> https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
>
> I'd suggest sticking a few ISOs on it.
>
> Lubuntu or Xubuntu for very low-end, no 3D usage at all.
>
> And maybe vanilla Ubuntu with GNOME, which is the most-tested flavour.
>
>> Running df -h shows it has a cow in it.
>
> Can't work that out at all.
>
> COW as in Copy On Write? Is the drive ZFS?
>

I have never wittingly used ZFS - it is too advanced for me.

The cow thing was in the leftmost column of the df -h output ;
/cow

Out of interest, as I was getting nowhere with the 21.10 iso in the
live mode, I rebooted the computer into a 20.,10 installation, and it
appears to be working okay.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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