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Fine Details needed for partitioning & mounts in a legacy laptop with WinXP32 on
gold_finger:
Glad to here you're up and running.
Re: Sound -- have a look in the "Hardware" section of the Help Manual. There's a section for sound configuration -- see if that helps. (Access Help Manual from either the main Menu, or it's bookmark in Firefox.) If you continue to have sound problems, make a new post specifically about that to attract views of people that know how to fix that type of problem.
Re: Downloading Videos -- not sure what you mean by "downloading"? Do you mean being able to watch them online, or do you mean downloading a copy of the video to your hard drive for later viewing? If you are not talking about downloading youtube videos, give us an example link to a video site you are trying to download from. Haven't used Real Player myself in about 15 years, so have no idea what "icon" you are talking about. If you are talking about downloading youtube videos, here's an addon that works well for that: Video DownloadHelper. Again, if this doesn't solve your problem, make a new post specifically about downloading videos -- others probably know more than I do on that.
REGARDING YOUR NEW INSTALLATION:
Just out of curiosity, because you were worried about possible negative affects of prior install attempts, can you open a terminal and post back the following command output so I can see how the partition structure looks?
--- Code: ---sudo fdisk -l
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--- Code: ---sudo blkid -c /dev/null
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--- Code: ---cat /etc/fstab
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Also, have you tried accessing and/or do you want access to that NTFS data partition? If so, I can use the above output to get you setup for that.
Wombat66:
UPDATE :
I have successfully installed LL alongside Win XP as Logical Partitions on deleted E drive in SDA 6 with a Swap Drive of 1.96 Ggb.
I have one minor problem
1. I can see videos on Youtube but there is no sound and the loudspeaker is not muted , in fact a few days ago I had from the USB raised the volume and made it 120% instead of 44% and this was perfect , but today the sound is not there .
2. What do I need to do to download a video as I do not see a Real Player icon on moving the mouse on the screen ?.
Many thanks Gold-Finger for your guidance .
Wombat66:
Many thanks Gold Finger for the advice ,
I will follow the easy way as I have a phobia of playing around with computers . There is one problem at the back of my mind though and that is after I started playing around with the instructions of the other person and quitting installation about 10 times now Linux gives me only 2 choices .............the choice of installing alongside Win XP is no longer there , will that situation change back after I delete E drive and will that choice of installing alongside windows reappear ?
gold_finger:
Everything should be fairly simple. If you don't need more room for windows then leave C: & D: drives as they are. You will be able to access either of those two partitions from Linux Lite if you want to. Since you're planning on eventually moving (or copying) the data on D: to another computer and possibly even wiping out Windows on this one, there's no sense in creating any additional NTFS partition. You've got plenty of room left on the C: drive if you need more space for Windows data.
Easiest and best bet is to just boot into Windows and delete the E: partition. Don't create any Linux partitions. Don't create any partitions. Just delete E: and leave it as empty, unused, unpartitioned space.
If you look at your hard drive screenshot you'll notice that drives D: & E: are surrounded by a green border. That's an "extended partition" which houses the two logical partitions -- D: & E:. After you delete the E: partition, look to see if that green border still extends to the end of the disk -- now enclosing the D: logical partition and the empty space from where E: was. If that's the case -- then you're Linux Lite installation will automatically be two logical partitions inside of that extended partition after the D: drive partition. If, for some reason, Windows shrinks that green border to fit only around D:, just leave it that way and your Linux installation will then create two primary partitions for itself (which is fine). If you choose to do partitioning manually (see below), just keep this in mind so you know whether the partitions will be logical or primary.
Once E: has been deleted, shut down Windows and boot computer with your Linux installation DVD/USB. Start the installation and when you get to the "Installation Type" screen, tell it to install "Alongside Windows". It will then automatically use that freed-up space from the deleted partition and create a Root and Swap partition for itself. It will decide the ideal size for Swap (most likely between 2-4GB) and do that for you -- so don't worry about that. It will install it boot loader to the MBR (master boot record) of the drive and take over duty of booting computer, giving you the choice of booting either Windows or Linux Lite when you restart after installation.
That's the easy way to do the installation.
BUT ... if you do plan on using that NTFS data partition (D: drive) from within Linux Lite, you have two choices.
* Partition manually from within the installer and also tell the installer to make a mount point for the D: drive (/dev/sda5).
* Go ahead with the "Alongside Windows" automatic installation and sort out adding an entry for the NTFS partition afterwards.
If you want to go with option #1, read through this post to get a general idea of how to make the partitions during the installation and how to set the mount points for them. (Its a different Linux distro, but steps are essentially the same.) You're still only going to make a Root (mount point = "/") and Swap (no mount point) partition, but you will need to also highlight and "Change" /dev/sda5. When you do that, leave partition type, size and location as they already are. Choose "NTFS" for file system type ("Use as" box) and in the "Mount point" box you will need to choose a place in the file system for that partition to be mounted (where it will show-up for you to use). DO NOT CHECK BOX TO FORMAT /dev/sda5!!!
I think best place to mount it would be in your Home directory, so type this as the mount point: /home/username/WindowsData. Substitute your actual user name (all lowercase letters) in place of "username". Also, you can name it something else other than "WindowsData" if you want to. (Just don't use spaces in the name. You can substitute "-", "_", "." in place of spaces if you want.
Sizes for your two new partitions:
* Root = all free space from deleted E: drive except 3GB for swap.
* Swap = 3GB
That's it -- go ahead and install now. After your first boot into the installed Linux Lite, run the Update manager (Menu -> Install Updates) to download any updates to the system first. Then, if you want instructions on mounting the NTFS partition (Windows D: drive), post back with output from these commands run in a terminal:
--- Code: ---sudo fdisk -l
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--- Code: ---sudo blkid
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--- Code: ---cat /etc/fstab
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Wombat66:
Gold Finger :
I am posting what you requested below . I do not want extra space for Windows as in fact I will gradually migrate most of the data in the full up drive to another computer and perhaps will rarely rely on Windows .
My decision is to have the virtually empty drive entirely for Linux and I wonder if 1 Ggb for Linux Swap is OK or if I could boost my RAM effectiveness by having more for Linux Swap.
--- Code: ---/dev/sda6 317444463 488375999 85465768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 8011 MB, 8011087872 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7639 cylinders, total 15646656 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5be546df
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 0 1409023 704512 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb1: 721 MB, 721420288 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 688 cylinders, total 1409024 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5be546df
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1p1 * 0 1409023 704512 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
linux@linux:~$
____________________________________________________________________________
linux@linux:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="04A8A5B1A8A5A1A2" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="FA3C1CC33C1C7D37" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="7C0425E204259FDE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Linux Lite 1.0.8 32-bit" TYPE="iso9660"
linux@linux:~$
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