I have 2 pc's in the same room, one linuxlite,  one windows 8 and they network ok using usb dongles through my internet hub. But this is painfully slow for big file transfers pc to pc,  it takes all day to transfer several gigs at less than 2mb second.  So I linked the two machines with a network cable,  had no crossover so put a netgear gs605 switch in the middle.  They will not work through this connection and I have set both pc's to set up ip's automatically.  I'm now wondering if there is a setup procedure for this type of connection,  (ad hoc isn't it?)  Is it best to convert the lan cable to crossover to simplify things or should it work as it is now. When I look at my windows 8 adaptor status it says it is sending data but not receiving any. Not sure how to do the same on linuxlite.  When I ask windows 8 to diagnose it's network connection it says
"Ethernet doesn't have a valid ip configuration"  But when I look at the settings for ip4 it is on auto on both machines.  And if I set it to manual, after I've entered 192.168.1.80 and 255.255.255.0 what do I put in the gateway fields?  Surely a direct connection would not need a gateway like it does with the internet hub connection. I will not be using the lan connection for internet as both machines work ok wirelessly.  phew

It was great to see Clementine (music player & podcast) in the new LL2.2 release. This was a great choice (in my view the best choice together with VLC) and seems to reflect the music player poll you cast recently, where the majority voted for both these players.

I really like Clementine for podcasts.  This is because it lists, for example,  the various BBC radio stations and all the podcasts available for download for those stations, making finding your podcast & downloading the RSS feed just a click away as everything is within the same place, i.e. within Clementine. Other music players (e.g. gnome music player) are not so good, as you need to search the RSS feed URL online first and then paste it into the player.

Regards
Mike

Hi
  After a new install of O.S. Lite 1.0.8. I have a short cut Icon in the top left of the desktop,
it says 32GB File system.

If I hover mouse pointer over Icon it says  " Removable Volume Not Mounted Yet " if I double click I get  "Authentication is required to mount the device "

The same file system shows up in the Home folder but needs to be mounted to get access.
Do I need to retain this shortcut / or should it not be there.

                                                Thanks.

Most Danes know the blue and white advertisement for Tuborg Julebryg (Tuborg Christmas Brew). But probably not many know that the famous animated commercial, which features Santa Claus in blue clothing, is actually older than the beer itself. The commercial was originally launched in 1980 as a special holiday commercial for ordinary Tuborg pilsner, but it became so popular that for Christmas 1981 we created the special Tuborg Julebryg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-14o9el7cA

Hi, Thanks for such a nice OS .
Tried LL and Due to its simplicty installed on My machine .
Bt Now When i click LogOut button the System Goes to a White Screen or Sometime to User Selection Page. Bt cant Click on Any..

Tried Shutdown . it works fine ..but as i have multiple users in Home machine Switching User is a requirement .

I also had problem with the preloaded Firefox Browser , only Safe Mode Worked, So i installed Chrome and Opera after running Apt-get Update

Bt this Freezing irriates me . else i need to go back to Some other Ubuntu Variant which i dont want now . I have Limited Internet Plan at Home.

Is it possible making app to add PPA more simple?
Like combination Ctrl+Shift+ P then show small popup dialog to paste PPAs.

I read what is in the LL manual, but still a little unclear.  What I want to do:

1) Boot to a small primary hard drive (80Gb) as I do now.
2) Add a 500 Gb hard drive as a secondary drive.  This drive would be used as a back-up of the primary and additional storage for music and some video editing clips, etc.

I am using SystemBack (I also have the DejaDup that comes on 2.2) and I would want to set a partition on my secondary drive to the same size as my primary drive and then the remaining space could be used as storage. I am not sure about Systemback, but some similar software like Clonezilla it's difficult to copy your system to a smaller drive partition than your system drive (even if you are only using part of your system drive capacity).  I figured if I make the partition on the second drive equal to the 80Gb drive, then I could not only copy to that, but copy back to the primary in the event of problems.

So, I plan on using Gparted to set the partition sizes on the secondary (80Gb and ~ 420 Gb). Questions:

1) Do I have to format that drive before partitioning, if so what format, how? Right now I think Windows 10 preview is on there, should I "nuke" that first?
2) When I copy my primary drive, I expect it will automatically re-create the existing partitions incl. swap, etc. in that 80Gb partition on the secondary drive? 

Does this make sense, or is there a better way to do this?  I guess another option would be to copy my primary drive to a usb drive, and then just use the whole 500Gb drive for storage? Pretty sure I could back it all up on a 32Gb usb drive.

Two more questions:

I will not be using the secondary drive all the time, and it seems like a waste of energy to power it up all the time and increase wear when I am not using it.
1)  Is there a way other than opening the computer case and disconnecting the power connector to not power-up each time.  Has anyone ever seen a switch to do this?
2)  I am tempted to install a power-up switch on the outside of my case to allow this, anyone ever done this?

Chris

Hi, folks!

I have been in Linux world for last 4-5 years, and this distro is  one of my favourites. I like simplicity and speed. This is, by my measures.
Now, I installing it to all may friends which are still "Windows only" oriented and willing to explore Linux world.
Keep with good work.

My last installed distro before this one is Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.1. I run it on my Toshiba Satellite U840 from USB3 64GB flash drive (with persistence), which runs pretty nice from that USB flash.

This one is "spinning" in Virtual Box under Windows 7.

My Toshiba is "made" for Windows 7, and it has 32GB  SSD configured as  Intel Rapid Storage Tehnology. It was previously disabeled and Mint 16 was installed on that SSD.
Now, i plan to enable again Intel Rapid Storage and get speed for both Win 7, which run natively, and LL in Virtual box.

GPT Partitioning for Legacy/CSM mode Linux Installations

Why use GPT partitions?
• Ability to properly access drives with capacities greater than 2TiB in size.
• Ability to make up to 128 primary partitions without needing extended and logical partitions.

WARNING:  If Windows is currently installed on your computer and you plan to set-up a dual-boot with Linux, please do not use this tutorial.  Doing such an install may not be possible due to Windows-specific restrictions as to UEFI vs. Legacy mode installations and the partition types that must be used by the respective install modes.  Please, post a help request on the Linux Lite forums before any such attempt, or you risk inadvertently wiping out your Windows installation.

In a nutshell, this tutorial is only geared toward those wishing to install Linux to the drive by itself and are converting a drive from MBR to GPT partitions.  One can also use this for setting up a multi-boot system with more than one Linux distribution.  In that case, make space on the drive for your new installation instead of deleting all current partitions in the steps below.

EDIT (added after original posting):
Just to clear up any potential confusion -- GPT partitions are not "required" for multiple OS booting.  That can be done easily with a traditional MBR partitioned drive as well.  In fact, using GPT partitions is much less common, though it's usage has increased in recent years.  This tutorial is for informational purposes in case someone wants to use GPT partitions.



OTHER NOTES:
Most newer computer (from around 2011-2012 on) use UEFI firmware instead of the older BIOS firmware to handle the initial boot process of the computer after pressing the power button -- referred to as POST (Power On Self Test).  BIOS-based computers only boot in what we're calling "Legacy mode" here.  Most UEFI-based computers can boot in either "UEFI mode", or Legacy/CSM/BIOS mode.  (CSM = Compatibility Support Module.)

Older BIOS-based computers typically have drives using MBR partition tables to store information on the drive's partitions.  MBR partitioned drives have two main drawbacks:  they are limited to using only 4 "primary" partitions and they can only handle addressing disks up to 2TiB in size.  One can get around the 4 partition limit by making one of the primary partitions into an "extended" partition, inside of which several "logical" partitions can be created.

GPT partitioned disks do not need extended and logical partitions because they can handle up to 128 primary partitions.  Also, addressable disk space is significantly larger (up to 8ZiB), so the larger hard drives available today can be easily accomodated.



INSTRUCTIONS:

• Boot live Linux DVD/USB
• Open GParted (found in Menu under System -> Partition Drives).
• Delete any existing partitions on the drive (eg. from prior OS installations that were on the drive).

• If a Swap partition exists, right-click (rt-clk) it and choose "Swapoff" first, then you can delete it.
  
• Rt-clk each remaining partition and choose "Delete".
  
• Click "Apply" button along top of interface, or choose Edit -> Apply All Operations to finalize deletions.
  
• Make GPT partition table by going to Device -> Create Partition Table -> gpt -> Apply.
  

• Size=1-16MB;  leave it unformatted; flagged as "bios_grub".  (Note:  set the flag after hitting "Apply" to create all of your partitions.  Right-click this partition, choose "Manage flags" and pick "bios_grub".)
  
• Size=10-30GB;  format Ext4  (Root partition)
  
• Size=1-2 times RAM; format "linux-swap"  (Swap partition)
  
• Size=rest of disk space;  format Ext4  (Home partition)
  
• Click "Apply" button along top of interface, or choose Edit -> Apply All Operations to finalize creations.
  
• Go back to small, unformatted partition and set the "bios_grub" flag.
  

• bios_grub partition -- no need to do anything with this.  Installer will automatically see and use it.  Just leave it as-is.
  
• Root partition -- keep size as is -- Use as = Ext4 file system -- Mount point = "/"
  
• Swap partition -- keep size as is -- Use as = linux-swap -- no mount point needed
  
• Home partition -- keep size as is -- Use as = Ext 4 file system -- Mount point = "/home"
  
• Device for boot loader installation = /dev/sdX (Substitute correct drive letter that you're installing to in place of "X" without any partition number after it.  Eg. "/dev/sda", not "/dev/sda1".)
  

Originally, windows was in the first partition, got rid of that, and now i wish just to make one large partition of LL... is this possible?

Here is a pic of my layout::



I see that there is a a copy partition action I can utilize somehow, so i was thinking of copying sda5 and move it into the newly created slot at the beginning and getting rid of the extended all together, ---just having one partition, and yes, the swap.

However, to do this, i needed to increase the size of the unallocated space in the beginning, but i was unable to change the size of the extended partition.  So really, the way I was thinking is hopeless.

Can anyone help? ... You can label me as a newb ... I've searched the forums and Internet, and didn't really find what I was looking for.... but if it's already been mentioned .. just point me in the right direction..

*Actually, now looking at it, i see the data I want to move is only 18G which would fit into the unallocated 25G... don't know why i didn't see this before
-so I wouldn't have to move, just copy and paste the partition...right?...Idk

Thanks
(and thanks for the help on the image)