I originally had a multiple boot system with the operating systems of 4 distros on sda (all based on ubuntu), while the swap area and shared DATA partition were on sdb.  This worked well.  I then decided to set (up on 2nd laptop a Win 7 - LL2 dual boot): again a separate shared DATA partition was set up to allow filesharing between Windows 7 & LL2. Again this is worked well,  binding both "My_Documents" in win7 and the Directories in  /home of LL2 to the separate /mnt/DATA partition. 

However I experienced a problem with binding two more ubuntu-based distros on sda, in addition to the  LL2, and Win 7 on sda, to bind with /mnt/DATA on sdb. The two additional distros wont bind, though Win7 and LL2 remain successfully bound.

I have checked the "bind-home.conf" files that I created for the two additional distros but these look fine, as well as the /etc/fstab files that were set up.

When I try to mount /mnt/DATA, using the terminal, I get the following message for either additional distro:


m-z9@z9-AsusX71Q:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/DATA
[sudo] password for m-z9:
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.

Is the presence of Win7 making the binding exclusive, i.e. it will only allow one other distro to share /mnt/DATA with it? Wondered if anyone else had experienced this and if there is a way around it?  I have no experience of the fuser command and what this means. 

Many thanks in advance for any help with this.
Kind regards
Mike

Definitely for a newcomer to Linux Lite, this video will take a newly installed LL desktop to a customized desktop. Minimal effort and skill required.

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So I want to download steam but when the package install window opens and asks for my password I cant type in the window. It doesn't even recognize the keyboard (laptop) ??? Any body have the same problem??? Cant live without STEAM

Edit (20June15):
This thread is solved in the spirt that it doesn't appear to work. If you try this approach please post your results if you have time. Thank you. ~Scott

The video below (from PuppyLinux) illustrates this but here it is in three steps.

1. Install LL 2
2. Run system-updates (no reboot)
3. Install drivers (reboot)

It seems installing the Broadcom drivers without rebooting after the initial system-update will prevent the system-update process from breaking the wireless drivers.

This approach worked here but will it work for other hardware? I have no way to test this. Can anyone confirm this works?

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Hello,

I had this game sense last mouth, and i had Windows 8.1 on this computer. i always love linux and so i install linux lite 2.0 32-bit. this game you have to install origin will i install origin and now it install (i install the patch on playonlinux) i also got the night life and high end life (this is The Sims 3 Start Pack) how can i install the two Sims games you have to have The Sims 3 install to play it. Thank You!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3JOz2YZW...tube_gdata

I haven't got a clue on fixing this or why he did not post it himself on this forum. I am sure someone here will have the answer.  8)

Hi!

I have a problem with the powersaving. The screen goes blank, but should be turned off. Been trying everything under Power manager.
Any suggestions?

I know that most people love this player, I am one of the few that is not enamored with it (for example it is hard to get it to play .mkv files or HD movies)

Is it possible to replace it as the default player with another one on my system?

My system has frozen up/lockedup twice in the last week probably from trying to do too many things at the same time, it's not a worry.

But what the problem is that I really don't know what to do - in Win I used to hit ctrl/alt /delete and there fix the problem. I have tried I few things on LL (ctrl/alt/bckspace etc) but the best result has been a redirection to the terminal...then I have no idea how to proceed.

A GUI interface similar to the one on Win would be helpful to dummies like me...

Folks we are having to move a lot of Topics out of On Topic to the appropriate Support section.

Please use either:


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or:


[size=2em]Hardware - Support[/size]


for Linux Lite Support.