Spectre660 wrote: Option 3 for installing Ubuntu-Mate 16.04
A usb .img that can be booted and copied using dd to a harddrive partition .
Image is compressed as 7z so needs to be extracted before writing .
has a username of Amigaone with password of amigaone .
Once installed you will need to update as it uses the first version of the Ubuntu-Mate .
no live user on this one.
should upload a newer version but it takes about 12 hours with my connection's upload speed .
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4r477z1kg57hi ... mg.7z?dl=0
I tried now to update this Ubuntu 16.04.3 installation I made earlier from the image above... Only a partial update was possible (is that normal?), and downloading the packages (c. 550MB) was succesful. During installation there was first a message that 'man-db' was not installed properly, and then a few minutes later the installation crashed Ubuntu totally (the last message was 'Preparing to configure fonts.-noto-cjk...').
Now the installation is broken, it cannot open the desktop anymore... Probably not possible to rescue it anymore as the installation process was interrupted...?
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Updating this message...
Something very strange happened! After a few reboots I finally got the login window, from where the system was able to reach a somewhat strangely looking desktop (most icon pictures were missing, the backround was different etc.). When I opened the softwarer updater, it started to 'confiiguring' an endless list of software items... When it had finished, I run the updfater again, and it reported that all packages are already downloaded, and then it continued to install a few packages (stored who nows where). After all that was finished, I rebooted... And booting advanced as it usually does, and I got the normal desktop again!
Running again the updater just gave the message 'system is up to date'.
I am very, very surpriced... Is the recovery capability of Ubuntu really this high, or may this installation still be 'broken' under the surface...? Is there a way to check it?