Hello All. I just registered and this is my first post here. I'm having an issue with my Linux Lite install. I searched in the forum but didn't see an answer so hopefully this has not been asked 100 times already...

I'm a rookie with Linux, and this is my first install attempt. Basically I want to completely erase my current Windows 7 OS on an old HP desktop and replace it with Lite 4.2. I've backed up my Win7 data files to external USB drive, so there's nothing in the Win7 OS that I need to keep.

I downloaded the Lite 4.2 ISO image, verified it, then created a Lite 4.2 bootable USB using Rufus on Win7. I restart the PC using the USB drive and it boots the PC into Linux Lite Live mode. So far so good.

When I select the "Install Linux Lite" icon on my desktop, right after the language preference question, this message appears on my screen:

"The installer has detected that the following disks have mounted partitions: /dev/sdg

Do you want the installer to try to unmount the partitions on these disks before continuing?  If you leave them mounted, you will not be able to create, delete, or resize partitions on these disks, but you may be able to install to existing partitions there."

I'm not sure what this question is asking me and didn't know how to respond, so I backed out and quit the installation process. My guess would be to answer Yes but wanted to make sure before going any farther.

Has anyone in this forum seen this message before, and if so, how should I answer the question?

Thanks very much.

Z

Hey Guys!
Can anyone tell why is LinuxLite not acknowledged here?:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ee1210.svg

...I mean why is LL absent from the tree?
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According to the package management the chess program "stockfish" is installed on my PC. Can also find an entry under /usr/games/stockfish.

However, no icon was created during installation, so I don't know how and where to start the program.

This problem sometimes occurs when installing other programs. That's why I published the problem under Installing software.

Thank you very much for your help! 

Just wondering why Printers is not in the Settings Manager under Hardware.

(Yes, I know it's in the menu, but I've always seen it under Hardware
in the Settings Manager of other distros; no big deal, just wondering)

Is there a provision to make the updates download and install automatically ?

I'm looking for a replacement for my gaming laptop (Asus G750js), which died recently.

I don't want to spend a 4-digit sum on such a computer again (!!), but at the same time wondered what the Intel NUC mini-computers are like as a gaming alternative. Like laptops they suffer from the disadvantage that they can't be upgraded like PC towers.

These Intel NUC units come in i5 and i7 versions, but I notice that they seem to have only 2 cores instead of the more usual 4 found in gaming laptops & PC towers. Would this be enough for gaming (my son routinely plays CS-GO, whereas I prefer the gentler Supertuxkart)?

Also what about the installed Intel Iris graphics - is it up to the job? Additionally, I wondered if these minicomputers (which come with a fan) might suffer the same potential fate as gaming laptops, e.g. the overheating problem and consequent breakdown, as they are not as well ventilated as gaming PC towers ...

As always, many thanks for all your feedback  8)
Mike

Upon resuming from the sleep mode, the fan is mostly unresponsive, until high temperatures of the CPU. Regards automatic and manual mode of control {/sys/class/drm/(...)/pwm1_enable}. We talk about a laptop. After complete reboot, the fan spins according to the temperature charts, which makes it spinning lightly majority of time. I rather it spins than not. Being late catching up at about 80 degrees Celsius already means not so good. Is there any way I can force the system to refresh the state of fan, as it would do after a reboot?

Hey all,

Completely new to Linux. Installed 3.8 on my old and crappy Netbook (Atom/1.6GHz0) because Windows 7 Starter Pack was insanely slow.

Anyways, once I have installed Lite 3.8, I can successfully do the updates, until it asks me to reboot to affect the changes. Once I consent the restart, it loads but only up to the point of the feather icon and gets stuck there. I try to restart the netbook multiple times, but it either gets stuck on the feather icon (before it asks for login info) or takes you to an option to screen with 4 options: run normally/etc/etc/etc... No matter what I select, it get's stuck on the feather icon or a black screen. Everytime this happens, I have to go though the entire installation process again. I can't shut of the netbook, or put it in standby without this happening.

Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

Not compleatly sure what uninstalled, but now cant boot in linux lite.
I used in my linux nvidia and amd card, and now take them out and use linux some time on only
intel integared card. So I was try to clean linux from amd and nvidia drivers because update always upating
mesa and nvidia things.
So look like I remove xorg server or something like that insteda of nvidia settings.
Now I am try to go in recovery and try to install xserver-xorg but can't start terminal because linux lite
ask me for password for recovery mode or something like that, and my linux lite pass dont accept.
Please help

After a lot of questions from new users I have put the time in to produce a tutorial on setting up the excellent Linux networking tools of SSH, SFTP, VNC, SCP, and Remmina on Linux Lite 4.2. I mean this to be a help resource friendly to users coming from a Windows desktop environment where they rarely if ever used a command line interface. To that end there are over 60 separate images in this tutorial mostly of the Linux Lite 4.2 GUIs in action, and a few of the Debian 9 computer I connected to. To follow this tutorial from beginning to end is to end with a correctly set up Linux Lite 4.2 system with these power networking tools properly set up on it. This first tutorial is for Linux Lite connections to other Linux computers. I will soon produce one along the same lines for SSH, SFTP, Samba, and RDP connections to Windows 10 and the simplest best ways to secure your Windows 10 build 1809 and Linux Lite 4.2 connections on both machines. I made a download available of this tutorial as well. It is a zipped .html file with all the images which you can view in your browser and work with off-line.
https://www.dbts-analytics.com/ll4ntw1.html
https://www.dbts-analytics.com/tcdwnlds/tutdwnlds.html    (Select the download for Linux Lite 4.2)
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