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.
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Install Updates Error log
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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
I've never tried encrypting any Hard Drive or SSD i've ever owned so I thought I'd try it with Linux Lite 3.6 for kicks...I use it everyday and I remembered how easy it seemed to be from the options I saw at install. I ticked the encrypt Volume or Hard Disk and the LVM option also ticked...entered the PW and then got to the section for username and login PW and ticked the encrypt home folder options...everything installs it seems then it gets to the "creating user" part of the progress bar...and it hangs...goes nowhere....i thought maybe it was "encrypting" the drive so I let it do its thing....4 hours later and install from a dvd and USB drive and the same thing...hits the "creating user" part and just stalls....no HDD activity at all. So i tried Mint 18.3 with the exact same options and pw's...got to the "creating user" part during install...5 seconds later it gets passed it and in 7 minutes or less I have a newly installed mint with disk encryption and home folder encryption.
what could be the issue? is this a bug? could it be the laptop i'm using? it's an older 2007-2009 hp but it took mint 18.3 just fine with an SSD...works perfect...pops right along
also...this is probably the most common issue amongst the lubuntu/ubuntu issues in that...the volume control icon has never worked...i go into the audio properties and enable the hdmi and that part is fine...i can control youtube with their players volume control or the audio properties in alsa/pavucontrol...i've tried every trick that i've come across online to get it working to no avail...uninstalling...reinstalling....going into the taskbar properties and adding another volume control icon...zip....using an athlon 5350 mini pc to no avail...lite or mint seem to be the only distro's that let this little pc move right along...others seem to slow it down...i could just open pavucontrol/alsa and volume up or down that way but for insight...i thought i'd see if I'm missing something simple to get the volume icon working again
neither one of these issues is a deal breaker....the encrypting drive thing is just something i came across and thought it needed a heads up...the volume is just annoying but i'll live if it doesn't work
thanks
Hi.
I'm hoping to be able to get qDirStat installed, but I'm stuck now and need help to get further.
This is what I have done so far
- Have downloaded the file qdirstat-1.4.tar.gz from https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat.
- Have extracted the packed file into a dir: qdirstat-1.4
- Have read a recipee for compiling: https://luv.asn.au/overheads/compile.html
I'm reading the section "Compiling from the original source", but the README.md doesn't mention anything about compiling the source.
I noticed when I went back to an earlier restore point that i required the OLD password for the admin user i had set up. I make a list of the passwords that I use so this was not an issue, however no doubt in future there may be a point whereby the OLD password is forgotten particularly if the youth using the computer elects to change the pw.
So I thought I should find out in advance, what can you do if after updating you had to go back to a much earlier restore point and you didn't have the correct admin password? Is there a way to still "get in"?
I think in another post someone eluded to a user "admin" as not being the real admin and if so, what pw would this "real" admin respond to?
OR
what would one do in the above situation where you want to restore to the earlier point, but don't have the proper pw?
Not sure why this is happening as it has not (yet) happened on the other older computers. When I performed the LL updates for LL 3.4 on a Toshiba Satellite A-210 (RAM-2GB) the study videos that I have in various folders would not open or play. I performed the update today, Jan. 10.
VLC would open for a quick second then close again. Also the start-up and shut down sounds were not audible. If I recall correctly I did try You Tube and it did work, it was simply the downloaded study videos that did not. I went back to a restore point I made 3 days ago and the issue was the same, no video or sound, so I went back to the next restore point which was Oct. 24, 2017. Both You Tube and downloaded videos work fine at that much earlier restore point.
So for now I have left it at the Oct restore point, BUT am wondering - do I simply NOT do any further updates or is there some info I can be getting, like a system report, at both this earlier restore point and then doing the updating process again and IF the sound and video loss is there again get a system report? and then ask for advice?
I have only realized now that perhaps I should not have deleted the 2 most recent restore points, however I did so as to not think these were good restore points in future.
Hi Guys,
I've recently downloaded a program as a zip file, extracted it OK but I can only run it from commandline. I'd like a desktop shortcut icon for this but have drawn a blank on all my web searches etc. inc on this forum. There are various tutorials for other Linux distros but they all look different & I've no idea which to use. So does anyone know how it's done ? Thanks.
It not installing and I’m out of ideas guys,
God Not dead.
Hi forum.
I have set up a Dell D620 with LL where the default user (me, the one I use on daily basis) have the home folder encrypted (during creation of user).
I have also being a user of Veracrypt trying to figure out how to use Veracrypt on Linux. Exept for some character encodings for fat/fat32 and had some trouble with ntfs getting bad, I have figured most out to the extent that led me use the program at a daily basis.
Why? Because I have all those files on a laptop and I have that laptop dragging around when traveling around, so in the event of theft, I don't wan't private letters or other any kind of critical information getting in hands of criminals. Simply as that.
Therefore I have thaugt of something. Using Veraccryp takes time to mount, and why not just store those files on the encrypted home folder of user and just forget about Veracrypt? It sure cause less hazzle.
But the big question - how secure is critical files that lays inside an encrypded home folder compared to a Veracrypt file container?
I assume for an average burglar, it doesn't matter because he's probably not the most clever guy anyway. But if that burglar hands it ower to an individual that have the tools to crack passwords - assume same password strength - what is least risky place to store critical files.
Thanks in advance