03-16-2021, 03:18 AM
[member=5414]firenice03[/member]
Since the kernel installer in Lite Tweaks doesn't work for 4.8 I looked for a distro that used 4.8 and booted a live USB of Ubuntu 16.10. However, the microSD card was still not recognized.
Your most recent post got me thinking about these comments again...
https://askubuntu.com/questions/939410/l...oesnt-show
...and I remembered that there was a bug report linked in those comments...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...ug/1710023
...in which someone reported success with a kernel other than 4.8. Looking at the bug report again I saw that the kernel mentioned was 4.4. I then tried to install 4.4 using Lite Tweaks but got the exact same error as I did when trying to install 4.8. Additionally, attempting to install 4.4 via the command line gave the exact same error as before also. That has to be some kind of bug doesn't it, claiming that a file is not installable when it is actually already installed ?
I then used the Distrowatch search function to give me a list of distros using 4.4. There turned out to be quite a few of them, but not all are still available for download. One of the ones still available however is Linux Lite 3.8. I booted a live USB of LL 3.8, verified that it was using 4.4, and then inserted a microSD card. I didn't expect it to show up but I was pleasantly surprised to see it appear on the desktop.
I think the last two posts in that bug report are very interesting. The next to last post says that the bug report is being labeled as expired. The last post seems to question why it's being listed as expired when the bug still exists. I guess that the bug is never going to be fixed.
Of course this story wouldn't be this story without a downside. LL 3.8 reaches EOL in less than a month. Do you think there's any chance that this kernel install issue will be rectified in 5.4 ?
Since the kernel installer in Lite Tweaks doesn't work for 4.8 I looked for a distro that used 4.8 and booted a live USB of Ubuntu 16.10. However, the microSD card was still not recognized.
Your most recent post got me thinking about these comments again...
https://askubuntu.com/questions/939410/l...oesnt-show
...and I remembered that there was a bug report linked in those comments...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...ug/1710023
...in which someone reported success with a kernel other than 4.8. Looking at the bug report again I saw that the kernel mentioned was 4.4. I then tried to install 4.4 using Lite Tweaks but got the exact same error as I did when trying to install 4.8. Additionally, attempting to install 4.4 via the command line gave the exact same error as before also. That has to be some kind of bug doesn't it, claiming that a file is not installable when it is actually already installed ?
I then used the Distrowatch search function to give me a list of distros using 4.4. There turned out to be quite a few of them, but not all are still available for download. One of the ones still available however is Linux Lite 3.8. I booted a live USB of LL 3.8, verified that it was using 4.4, and then inserted a microSD card. I didn't expect it to show up but I was pleasantly surprised to see it appear on the desktop.
I think the last two posts in that bug report are very interesting. The next to last post says that the bug report is being labeled as expired. The last post seems to question why it's being listed as expired when the bug still exists. I guess that the bug is never going to be fixed.
Of course this story wouldn't be this story without a downside. LL 3.8 reaches EOL in less than a month. Do you think there's any chance that this kernel install issue will be rectified in 5.4 ?