Been running Linux full time on my personal computer for a couple of years now.  Before that I have "tested the waters" so to say for probably 15 years, while using Windows as my main OS.  Still use Windows at work, and have an XP VM for those occasions where I'm too lazy to convert stuff to a Linux friendly format.

Anyway, thought I would give Linux Lite a go on this old ThinkPad T43p.  So far, so good, except that it boots with NumLock on, and that's a no-no on a ThinkPad.

Installing linux lite over windows xp. The installation is stuck at "Detecting file systems" and there is an option for skip which cant be clicked. Also the previous loading of installation was slow.

From the following link, which refers to setup1 in signature, you will see the partitioning details of the LL3.6 / PCLinuxOS dual-boot system on a single SSD as follows - you will see that LL has the boot flag:
https://imgur.com/a/FddMV

I assume that when LL4.0 is eventually installed, replacing LL3.8, the boot flag will be destroyed with the clean-install and PCLinuxOS wont appear on the grubscreen and will therefore be inaccessible from dev/sda5, at least initially.

My question is:
Is there any way to recover the installed PCLinuxOS on sda5, so that the dual-boot is fully functional again, after installation of LL4.0 ?  How do I get PCLinuxOS back onto the grubscreen? Obviously I want to avoid having to reinstall PCLinuxOS ...

Many thanks in advance for your help & comments.
Much appreciated as always.

Mike

Yesterday morning, Dropbox worked perfectly on my Linux Lite 3.6 laptop (with latest updates). In the evening, I turned on the laptop, and the dropbox icon did not appear. Activating it from the menu did not work either. I tried purging and re-installing it from the command line, as well from Lite Software, but to no avail. I tried stopping and re-startint it, and I got the following error message:

26219659_1408655489257711_2208783231029279388_n by golan2072, on Flickr

How do I solve this issue?

I am finally here to learn and expand my knowledge about linux lite, i shall be patient enough to read FAQ, existed topics and all other rules and do my best to respect them..

Hello forum,

                  i`m from Australia and have been using linuxliteos for about 6 months now and enjoy using this distro, i used to use PcLinuxOs Full Monty but that is now not available.


Derek.

Hello,

      yesterday i did something to my Linux Lite system but not sure what i did, but when i start my computer i get this error message:

No boot signature in partition.

error: no such device: efdd640e-b506-4f99-b0da-2dd89a2e76e2.
error: unknown file system.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>

I have 2 hard drives on my computer, linux lite & bindows 7. Any help would be appreciated.

Derek.

Over the years, I've collected several laptop HDDs, particularly now that we've converted all our household's computers to the much faster SSDs.
However, I don't really want to get rid of these old drives, especially if I can find a use for them.

If I could somehow combine these HDDs (they vary in size from 250GB to 1TB) into one large drive, then I could use them
for external data storage, via USB connectivity.

Could someone either explain to me how I can do this, or at least point me in the right direction?

Many thanks - much appreciated.
Mike

I installed 3.6 on a hp pavilion slimline s3140.sc and I seems to have only hdmi sound.
Du you have any Ideas? how to solv this?

Amd x2 4000+ 4 Gb ram 1 grafik card 1 Gb whith this hdmi port.
Asus EN 210 silent/d1/1gd3/v2 lp /
dont now the brand of soundcard but it have 6 channel/outputs and is activated in setup  / Ivar

I have been unable to carry out an update today and the log says to post it here.
I should be glad of help in having the problem resolved.

===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not successfully download and install available updates.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libllvm4.0 ocqt562-libqt5core5a ocqt562-libqt5dbus5 ocqt562-libqt5gui5
  ocqt562-libqt5keychain1 ocqt562-libqt5network5 ocqt562-libqt5opengl5
  ocqt562-libqt5printsupport5 ocqt562-libqt5sql5 ocqt562-libqt5sql5-sqlite
  ocqt562-libqt5webkit5 ocqt562-libqt5widgets5 ocqt562-libqt5xml5
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed
  libdrm-common libllvm5.0 linux-headers-4.4.0-109
  linux-headers-4.4.0-109-generic linux-image-4.4.0-109-generic
  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-109-generic ocqt562+240-libqt5core5a
  ocqt562+240-libqt5dbus5 ocqt562+240-libqt5gui5 ocqt562+240-libqt5keychain1
  ocqt562+240-libqt5network5 ocqt562+240-libqt5printsupport5
  ocqt562+240-libqt5sql5 ocqt562+240-libqt5sql5-sqlite
  ocqt562+240-libqt5webkit5 ocqt562+240-libqt5widgets5 ocqt562+240-libqt5xml5
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ca-certificates-java chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra corosync corosync-dbg
  corosync-dev corosync-doc corosync-notifyd curl distro-info-data dpkg
  dpkg-dev evince evince-common firefox firefox-locale-en
  flashplugin-installer gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0
  gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common
  initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core ipxe-qemu
  libcfg-dev libcfg6 libcmap-dev libcmap4 libcorosync-common-dev
  libcorosync-common4 libcpg4 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdpkg-perl
  libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2
  libegl1-mesa libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri
  libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libgweather-3-6
  libgweather-common libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libnm-glib-vpn1 libnm-glib4
  libnm-util2 libnm0 libowncloudsync0 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler58
  libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libpulsedsp libpython2.7
  libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libpython3.5 libpython3.5-minimal
  libpython3.5-stdlib libquorum5 libraw15 libsam4 libseccomp2 libssl1.0.0
  libtotem-pg5 libunity-control-center1 libva-drm1 libva-x11-1 libva1
  libvotequorum7 libwayland-egl1-mesa libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 libxatracker2 libxcursor1 libxfont1 libxml2
  libxml2-utils linux-firmware linux-generic linux-headers-generic
  linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev lite-software lite-sources
  lite-usermanager mesa-vdpau-drivers network-manager openssl owncloud-client
  owncloud-client-l10n poppler-utils pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
  pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils python-libvirt python-libxml2
  python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3.5 python3.5-minimal rsync spotify-client
  squashfs-tools syncthing thunderbird thunderbird-locale-en
  thunderbird-locale-en-gb thunderbird-locale-en-us tor-web-browser
  ubuntu-mono va-driver-all virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-guest-dkms
  virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-qt yad
130 to upgrade, 17 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 519 MB of archives.
After this operation, 422 MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  ocqt562+240-libqt5core5a ocqt562+240-libqt5dbus5 ocqt562+240-libqt5network5
  ocqt562+240-libqt5gui5 ocqt562+240-libqt5widgets5
  ocqt562+240-libqt5printsupport5 ocqt562+240-libqt5sql5
  ocqt562+240-libqt5webkit5 owncloud-client-l10n ocqt562+240-libqt5keychain1
  ocqt562+240-libqt5xml5 ocqt562+240-libqt5sql5-sqlite owncloud-client
  libowncloudsync0
E: There were unauthenticated packages and -y was used without --allow-unauthenticated

============End==========

Thank you