This tutorial is for those of you who:

• would like to have a solid backup clone of the whole drive (SSD or HDD) containing LL
  
• are familiar with at least some basic use of the terminal
  
• can use either gparted  (i.e. Partition Drives in Menu) or terminal, to check the drive designation, i.e. /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc
  

• put the back-up drive into a USB caddy and plug into the USB port on your PC
  
• open gparted and make a note of the /dev/sdx designation of both drives, i.e.  the one you're copying from (inside your PC) , and the drive you're copying to (external backup drive), e.g. on my PC this  is /dev/sda (from), and /dev/sdc (to) - if you have only one drive bay in your PC then this might be /dev/sda (from) and /dev/sdb (to)
  
• close gparted, then open the terminal and type the following, substituting 'x' and 'y' for the  correct designation of your drives:
  

I often need to refer to the current date and time when writing in forums so it would be useful if the taskbar would stay on top. Is there a way to do this?

Dear Sir,

I am unable to update the my Linux Lite installation. getting hash sum mismatch error. Firefox and Google Chrome is often crashing. Installed Team viewer  but it is not working. Horrible experience.
unable to do productive work in Linux Lite.

Please Help

Gauri Shankar Gound
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I have been a user of Linux for years, love the ease of using, updating and in general, the feel of the majority of Distro's. Ubuntu, Mint and several others but my favorite was PCLinuxOS until they dropped the 32 byte version. My hobby is to try and resurrect old computers, then I give them away, so a Linux distro is perfect because of the minimum hardware requirements they need to operate. (My Wife says that I repair them until they are broken beyond repair)
This laptop for example is a old Toshiba NB200 which was taking the best part of 20 minutes to fully load Win XP Home and get online. Now with LinuxLite I timed it today at just over 85 seconds, that is of course without any bloatware or other crap on board.

Toshiba NB200  32bit
Intel® Atom™ CPU N280 @ 1.66GHz
Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME
RAM 1 G.

So you can see that this notebook is nothing to rave about, but with LinuxLite on board it is operating just as well if not better that most Windows PC's.

Glad to be a member of this forum and definitely very happy to have come across Linux Lite.

:'( I have tried to install Linux Lite from USB drive to Dell Inspiron 14-3542 (model number may be off) and it fails to restart /boot from the hard disk: 1) storage is eMMC ard; 2) boot is interuppted by this Dell SupportAssist message: It appears that there is difficulty in starting your system. Testing eMMC drive --[hangs].  I had previouslydisabled Windows Boot Manager in the bios.  Install seemed to complete without problem. Now running from the Live version on the USB drive. Any and all help will be appreciated -- Win 10 has augered in and no help from MS. Want to try Linux on this cheap laptop.

Well with LL, that is

Registered 26/03/2014

i am back resovling issues my wifi printers say the online at machine but pc says not online.

Linux noob, MS power user for 20+ years, LL for life at this point (3 months now).  Have reinstalled LL 3 times now for various reasons (moving to different partitions mainly, and preserving my win vista partition until I back up almost 10 years of documents/misc on it).  Has worked amazingly well each time, but I am a tinkerer, so I have added unsupported repositories, finally found synaptic (it's kinda hidden, why?), edited config files, and ran unknown cli commands cut and pasted from the internet.  Here is my current problem:

Latest install (3.6 upgraded to 3.8), everything was running as normal.  I mess around with a lot of stuff (I run pi-hole, for example), and I may have "released" my DHCP lease in my router settings (I'm not 100% clear on what that means, I was probably trying to fix something else, following an online "recipe").  Now, in LL, it connects to the network, but no browser will load, AND apt-get update will not connect either - connected with no connectivity.  Of course windows and other distros all have normal connectivity. 

Questions:  Is there a way to completely reset my internet settings?  I'm not opposed to reinstalling the OS, but...  can I reinstall in the same partition, or will it just leave whatever corrupted config files are there?  (I do have "spare" partitions I can use...  see ya Ubuntu, ha ha told you...)

Obviously (in retrospect) the DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf were incorrect, the system was looking to 127.0.0.1 (home) for DNS lookups for some reason.  I was not able to install nscd... until I fixed this.  Did not work the first time ...  not used to, and don't like non-GUI editors, they have nothing to offer me.  Yet.  Thanks!! 

Hello,

I am looking for suggestions for an offline garden planning software for LL, that can save as a jpg or png ?

I wanted one that can allow -

- adding of shapes (squares and rectangles)
- has plant add feature, has custom plant add feature (for any missing in software)
- add features for, paths, gravel, pond, rocks, garden furniture.
- has a mode for planning greenhouse and internal features.

I'm having a heck of time trying to write a file from Linux to Windows 10.

I've installed Samba on Linux Lite and I've got it up and running to the point where I can see the Linux computer from the Windows 10 computers. I actually have 3 Windows 10 computers and I can see the shared files and folders on the Linux machine from Windows 10 with no problem.  I can also read and write files to the Linux machine from the Windows machines.

What I can't do is see the Windows machines or shared folders on the Linux machine.  In short, I can't read or write a file to a Windows machine from the Linux machine.  I've been trying for over a week now with no progress.  I'm even writing a program in Python to write files to the Windows machines, but even that won't work.  I don't even get an error.  It just acts like it wrote the file but the file never shows up at the destination path.

In fact, this is what I really need to do.  I need to have Python write files to the Windows computers.  But as things are I can't do anything from Linux.  The only way to get a file over to Windows is to go to a Windows machines and read it from there.  That works, but that's no good.

Here's a copy of my smb.conf file: