installing trisquel 12 on a old laptop failed

In the Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

do-release-upgrade

> So what is the difference between Trisquel 12 and 11 ?

Trisquel 11 is based on an older version of Ubuntu. You can read 12's announcement here:

https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-120-ecne-release-announcement

thanks

If I don´t connect to the internet, which I want,
and do a:

do-release-upgrade

I need a medium to draw from there.

Can I use an Iso from which I have on a usb-stick?
Or what do I have to have on the usb-stick
so that it will draw from there?

maybe open an issue with the details on the hardware?

> failed to load ldlinux.c32

It sounds interesting to know what's going on there.

What do you mean by "open an issue"

Do you mean to write here on this forum?

If so then:

starting the laptop with Trisquel 11 it says:

x86/cpu VMX disabled by bios, but then Trisquel starts...

hardware name: SonnyCorporation VPCEB4M1E/VAIO,
Bios R1140Y8 10/06/2010
memory 3986 MiB
intel i3 CPU , M 380 , @2,53 GHz
x86 64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit

is that enough?
if not, which command do I have to use in the terminal to get more info?

thanks

How did you record the ISO? With Startup Disk Creator?

I put it on my Ventoy usb-stick
that means I created a usb-stick with the programme Ventoy and there I have many Isos
which always work

I installed triskel 11 also with this ventoy usb-stick, and it worked.
interestingly with triskel 12 it did not work.

I can try according your piece of advice to choose another usb-stick with using startup disk creator.

>>Please, choose another USB stick with at least 4GB of free space and use the Startup Disk Creator.

I did that, but I got the same error

> failed to load ldlinux.c32

Hi Gottfried.
I wouldn't recommend using Ventoy – users have been complaining about a lot of errors recently. You could use “dd” with this command:

$ sudo dd if=trisquel_12.0_amd64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync

sdX is your USB

"dd" is very stable, unlike any graphics programme)

I have got triskel 12.0 amd64.iso

and it is on /dev/sdb this is the usb-stick

but the iso is in /dev/sdb1

I tried:

sudo dd if=triskel_12.0_amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync
sudo dd if=triskel_12.0_amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync

dd: failed to open: 'triskel_12.0_amd64': No such file or directory

Do you mean to open aramo and then try this command?

Do you mean to have the iso installed/prepared with usb-disk-creator or simply copied to the usb-stick?

I tried everything, always the same result.

it is not in downloads,
but I put it on a usb-stick with usb-disk-creator, so only this is there

on an other usb-stick I simply copied it there, but there is no other file on this usb-disk

do-release-upgrade

does not work on an other laptop, where I have aramo installed.
I saw something on the gitlab webpage.
May be it is still not working.

Hi Gottfried,

Here's what you need to do:

1. Take your USB drive, plug it into your computer, and completely erase it—for example, using the GParted program.
Or use the following command:

$ sudo if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress 

Wait until the process is completely finished; I don't think your USB drive is 512 GB ))

2. After you’ve wiped your USB drive, plug it into your computer and check how it appears using the

$lsblk

command (for example, it will be sdb or sdc)

3. You have the Trisquel ISO image on your computer that you downloaded here https://trisquel.info/en/download

4. Now you need to write the Trisquel ISO image to your empty USB drive using the command

$ sudo dd if=trisquel_12.0_amd64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync 

sdX is your USB drive

I wanted to erase everything on the usb-stick:

sudo if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M status-progress
sudo: status-progress: command not found

what does that mean?

if I do a: status=progress
it comes up that:

gfp@Tuxedo ~$ sudo if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M status=progress
usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-ABkNnS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
usage: sudo -l [-ABkNnS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user]
[-u user] [command [arg ...]]
usage: sudo [-ABbEHkNnPS] [-C num] [-D directory]
[-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout]
[-u user] [VAR=value] [-i | -s] [command [arg ...]]
usage: sudo -e [-ABkNnS] [-C num] [-D directory]
[-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout]
[-u user] file ...

gfp@Tuxedo ~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 1 57,7G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 1 57,7G 0 part /run/media/gfp/CB86-CD38
nvme0n1 259:0 0 931,5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 549M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 3,7G 0 part
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 927,3G 0 part /gnu/store
/
nvme1n1 259:4 0 465,8G 0 disk
├─nvme1n1p1 259:10 0 512M 0 part
├─nvme1n1p2 259:11 0 228,6G 0 part
├─nvme1n1p3 259:12 0 8G 0 part
├─nvme1n1p4 259:13 0 1G 0 part
└─nvme1n1p6 259:14 0 226,6G 0 part

it did not do anything, on sda it is still there

In the meantime I unmounted my partition on the usb-stick with gparted, so that I was able to erase it.
it worked.
then I had an empty usb-stick

with cd .. I went to the /home/Download folder where I had the Triskel 12 iso downloaded.
I used the command:
$ sudo dd if=trisquel_12.0_amd64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync
and it worked.
It put the iso unto the usb-stick.

I plugged this usb-stick into the old laptop, where I had already installed Triskel 11.
So I choose to use the external disk in the boot options menu to run the usb-stick.

Then I started the laptop with choosing the usb-stick and
fortunately it opened the triskel 12 iso.
I choose installation
and it installed it.
I had to go to the boot options menu again to choose "internal drive" for booting.
then it started triskel 12 (KDE)
and so I have now Trisquel 12 installed on the very old laptop.

thanks to all very much for your help
its wonderful to have this great community
even to run very old laptops with Trisquel 12.

Hi Gottfried,
Sorry for giving the wrong command, I missed)

Of course, this is the right command:

$ sudo if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress 

(I fixed in my post so that no one copies the wrong version)
But I'm glad that you managed to solve this problem.
I wish you a good use of the wonderful distro!

Hi sam-d16,

no problem, we help each other

thanks very much for the mentioning of the problem with Ventoy.
With "dd" it works very well.

Now I even managed to install trisquel 12 on my Tuxedo laptop.

Approx. 3 years ago I tried to install Trisquel 11 aramo on this laptop with ventoy, but it failed.