Hello all,
 I am new to the forums. Not new to computers or technology. I have a major in Google IT Repair from Coursera. Looking forward to helping out more with people's linux issues.

I tried starting a Virtual Console by pressing CRTL+ALT+F1. It gave me the following messages:

Code:

I get the following readout of lshw:

lite 6.6
it happens so far in chrome and telegram, started after software update
you can see it here:
https://imgur.com/a/JooPiZ5

Thanks

Just want to say Hello for Ontario, Canada. So far I'm enjoying using LL, I have been using Linux for quite a long time!

Decent site I ran across recently. Maybe LL should be up there too. Many distros are including Ubu and Deb.

https://endoflife.date/

TC

I chose to install Linux Lite 7.2 along side Windows 10.  No errors showed during the install, but, when I booted the machine, I did not get a choice of which OS to boot.  Instead, Linux Lite 7.2 came up.  So, I took a look using the Disks app in LL and found Windows in Partition 2 using 412 GB formatted NTFS.  I decided it wouldn't hurt to try and mount the partition.  This is what I got:

Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/linuxlite/windows:
Wrong fs type
bad option
bad superblock on /dev/sda2
missing codepage or helper program or 
other error (udisks-error-quark,0)

I have no idea what to do to try and get Windows back intact - if that's possible.  
Please help if you can.

So cute!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/8282/p0M0It.png

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-light...heres-how/

Hello

I have been using a Linux Lite 7.0 live boot DVD to check that everything seems to be working ok on my laptop prior to installation. Most things seem to be functioning ok but I cannot launch the internet browser. When I click the Chrome icon from the system tray nothing happens and when I try to open the support manual I get the following message:

"Failed to execute default web browser. input/output error"

After a quick search on my phone I managed to get it to open using the command line
google-chrome --no-sandbox

However I am reluctant to go ahead with the installation if this is going to be a persistent problem. Is this something that could be associated to the live boot settings? I should add that I have used the same live boot DVD to install Linux Lite on a different laptop and did not have this issue.

Results from inxi are pasted below. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Thank you.

Matthew

System:
  Kernel: 6.8.0-47-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1
  Distro: Linux Lite 7.2 LTS
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId
  serial: <filter>
  Mobo: HP model: 81E5 v: KBC Version 73.16 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde
  v: F.32 date: 08/09/2018
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
  bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB
  Speed: 998 MHz min/max: 1000/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 998 2: 1000
  3: 998 4: 1000
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] driver: radeon v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 21.1.11 driver: ati,radeon
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: KABINI (radeonsi LLVM 17.0.6 DRM 2.50 6.8.0-47-generic)
  v: 4.5 Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.2
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k6.8.0-47-generic
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
  driver: rtl8723be
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 650.9 MiB (0.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-60JC3T0
  size: 931.51 GiB
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW GUD1N dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 62 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram

Hello

My mother has an old laptop that is painfully slow running Windows 10, so I have offered to install Linux Lite. It needs to be dual boot with Windows 10 as she has never used Linux before and it will take some time to get used to it.

I have defragmented the hard drive and have shrunk the C:\ partition in Windows to create an unpartitioned, unused, free space that is 256 GB in size. I have disabled secure boot and Windows fast startup. 

Please excuse my ignorance as I am a novice at this. I need some advice regarding which options to select during installation as I have seen conflicting guidelines:

1. "Install Linux alongside Windows Boot Manager"

2. The Help manual Install Guide states "Select Something else from this screen if you wish to dual boot with Windows or edit existing partitions (or both)." It then goes on to state that a 500 MB EFI system partition should be created, but I am unsure whether I need to do this as the Windows boot manager efi partition already exists. If I do need to create it, I am guessing it should be taken from my 256 GB of free space? It then states to "Click on the free space partition and click the Change button. Select Ext4 journaling file system, place a tick in Format the partition and select / as the Mount point." I am ok with this but I am confused whether I need to give mount points to the existing NTFS partitions (all created by windows install) as there is a comment regarding NTFS drives. If so, what do I need to set these to? "NOTE: If you have any other NTFS drives, it is important to give these a mount point during the install. That way they will be easily accessible after the installation".

3. I have seen an instructional video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhpu9TJmvAU, from 7:30 onwards) that suggests four new partitions need to be made from the 256 GB of free space. i) boot, ii) swap, iii) /home, iv) /root. 

Please can someone explain to me which of the above 3 options I need to follow to make sure that Linux lite is installed alongside windows with the grub bootloader such that I can choose which of Linux Lite and Windows to start upon reboot. 

I have taken pictures of the options screen and the existing partitioning and have pasted the Imgur BBCodes below. I have also pasted the results from Inxi to show the hardware. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Matthew

System:
  Kernel: 6.8.0-47-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1
  Distro: Linux Lite 7.2 LTS
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId
  serial: <filter>
  Mobo: HP model: 81E5 v: KBC Version 73.16 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde
  v: F.32 date: 08/09/2018
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
  bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB
  Speed: 998 MHz min/max: 1000/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 998 2: 1000
  3: 998 4: 1000
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] driver: radeon v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 21.1.11 driver: ati,radeon
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: KABINI (radeonsi LLVM 17.0.6 DRM 2.50 6.8.0-47-generic)
  v: 4.5 Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.2
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k6.8.0-47-generic
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
  driver: rtl8723be
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 650.9 MiB (0.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-60JC3T0
  size: 931.51 GiB
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW GUD1N dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 62 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram








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