![]() Was /home encrypted? That would explain that & swap not showing, but then only way to recover is from last backup. I might see what test disk shows even deeper search just to see if partition table was somehow messed up.Īnd/or you can try running fsck on the ext4 partitions. Unless not a normal install the first partition starts at sector 2048. Partitions do not start at normal location. It can run lots of tests on a drive, but all I really know is passed is good and anything else is a new drive. What does Disks or Disk utility say under Smart Status. Often a bad shutdown or powerfailure may corrupt on other another but not all. I'll quote part of that wiki page.It is strange that all the partitions will not mount. I was not involved in Lubuntu before the cosmic (18.10) cycle, thus we've never produced an debian installer ISO whilst I've been involved, but the purpose of the Alternate ISO was for machines with very limited RAM. I'll add a link to learn more details about Lubuntu Alternate ISOs. Puppy maybe a good choice too, but my experience with Puppy is far more limited. Debian) I was unwilling ( or had too little patience) to work out why ( if I was forced to use that box I'd not have used LXDE or LXQt using Debian or Ubuntu). The same boxes I QA test ( Quality Assurance) test Ubuntu ( and flavors like Lubuntu) I also use to QA-test Debian on, and on the 25+ boxes I've done this on, I had only one box were Lubuntu out-performed Debian in an significant way and whilst I was interested in why, the box was just so underpowered it was painful to use in either OS (esp. If not using Ubuntu, I'd for sure use Debian. Either way the CPU not being able to install/execute modern apps can be annoying. I also recall using it on boxes with only 384MB of RAM ( I still have that box though I might have increased RAM to its maximum of 512MB) and thus have no idea what releases I'm thinking of. I can't remember using Lubuntu on a pentium II/III, even though I only recycled my last II/III boxes earlier this year. Either way that's not where I'd head as I'd likely just use netboot and manually deal with any issues related the EOSS status of the release ( the media will be very old & thus certificates expired so network problems can be expected depending on where you live in the world )įYI: I did use pentium 4, pentium M, pentium D for QA testing up to 19.04 ( alpha as 19.04 wasn't released in i386 with only some alpha ISOs produced released products up to 18.10) the RAM size you mention limits you to using a di installer only which wasn't the default installer for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I do recall booting from old floppy disks ( devices that old usually had them, and the firmware accepted boot from floppies) and then the floppy itself ( 3.5" but that doesn't matter) passed control to another media, but I don't recall booting to USB media but I never tried (USBs were 1.1 as I recall ie. The only restriction was related to instruction set of the processor, and thus inability to install/execute specific processors that required more modern instruction sets. I have no idea what you mean by " I cant boot normally from the BIOS as its an old pc" as I still had old pentium II/III systems until somewhat recently ( recycled less than two years ago) and the boxes I used all had BIOS that was configurable & allowed booting from many devices ( not USB as I recall I recall doing that only on pentium 4 but the boot restriction is BIOS/firmware limited thus box specific, unrelated to the CPU). No more package updates will be accepted to the 14.04 primary archive, and any subsequent support will be done via Extended Security Maintenance. This is a follow-up to the Extended Support warning sent a month ago to confirm that as of April 25, 2019, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS basic support has ended.
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