I have a 2009 Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile 250 Gb and 2 Gb Ram and 3 USB's and a DVD.
Win XP 32 Sp3 has C drive , sda 1 84Gb NTFS and D drive 78 Gb sda 5 which is full of documents mainly, NTFS and E: drive sda 6 which is 88 Gb and NTFS and which I have emptied of all but less than 1 Gb of stuff in order to put Linux Lite 1.08 on it .
I have 30 Gb free space in drive C for my XP work.
I have been told to 1. Delete drive E , sda 6 and create 2 logical partitions ONE of 50Ggb NTFS and the Second Linux /ext4 root partition + Linux Swap space of 1-2 Ggb and to leave about 8-10 Ggb of unallocated space for windows .
I am unsure what to do
1. I will select the "something else option" 2. I will select sda 6 then a) Do I format the whole E drive? b) When I select 50Ggb for the NTFS partition do I select DOS or Windows in the mount menu? c) What will that NTFS partition be used for ? With XP or with Linux? d) To do this I must write it to disc and there is no undoing after that point . e) Linux Swap has to be 1-2 Ggb or can I make it more to improve my RAM ability? which is 2Ggb?....It seems my /ext4 Linux partition will be about 25-27 Ggb.I need to know also what MOUNTING is or does and f) What names do I give the partitions and mounts .
The Linux Lite OS Installation guide is inadequate and does not explain what to do with these issues .
I would appreciate your guidance there.
A friend suggested Linux...I thought what in the world is that??? I did some snooping and found Linux Lite and he said "go for it, in fact, bring your tower to me and I will put it on for you...should only take 30 minutes"...about 4 days later...I finally got it back. He said for some reason the disk drive would only take the install so far then freeze up...he didn't give me much hope, but he somehow by-passed my disk drive and the install gave new life to my 2004 or 2005 Windows XP eMachine. I don't think this PC was this fast when brand new! Anyway...I am new to the world of Linux, so I am looking for a lot of answers and tips. I hope I don't make a pest of myself. One question to start with...is Linux Lite compatible with Skype? Thanks for letting me join this forum! 
I'm interested in setting up the weather monitor. After adding it it says [projects:panel-plugins...] in toolbar and just shows explanation, screenshots, etc. What do I do next? Thanks. Max
Hi All,
What is the network under for Group?
What need to be able to set users up so they can add wireless networks with out admin password.
Basic, I know, but can anyone tell me how to change the date format from US to British?
Earlier today I did a fresh install of LL 1.0.8 with no problems. I then went to add a PPA for installing a command line utility "inxi" following directions on there site here: http://smxi.org/site/install.htm#inxi. I got an error message when trying to add the PPA. Figured it might just be some kind of temporary problem so I reversed what I did and installed it manually. Didn't think any more about it.
Now (an hour or so later), I just tried adding the PPA for the Plank dock application and got the same error message -- so apparently it wasn't an isolated one-off error caused by the last PPA source I tried. Must be something I'm missing or set-up wrong on the LL system, but I don't know how to fix it. Anyone else have an idea of what the following error message is indicating as the problem?
bill@Kitchen:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/docky
[sudo] password for bill:
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
Docky/Plank testing packages
More info: https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/docky
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 99, in run
self.add_ppa_signing_key(self.ppa_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 132, in add_ppa_signing_key
tmp_keyring_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 322, in mkdtemp
name = names.next()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 141, in next
letters = [choose(c) for dummy in "123456"]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/random.py", line 274, in choice
return seq[int(self.random() * len(seq))] # raises IndexError if seq is empty
ValueError: cannot convert float NaN to integer
Hey guy's I know I mention this little problem before in the "Introduce Yourself" section of the forum but, since there's already a section for this related problem I'll post here. Okay guy's? Like I mentioned before, we have one Dell PC with LL installed as primary OS coming from Windows XP. Since installing LL on our system when logging out of a user account and shutting down the OS, it always asks for the admin password which is really annoying. Anyway to turn this off or get rid of it? Thanks.
Shadow.
Hello All,
I have read several posts in this forum regarding Broadcom issues but nothing seems to work. I have added the broadcom drivers though Install/Remove programs and now even the wireless light does not show. Prior to that install I would get a wireless light but it would not show my home wireless and only listed a couple in our area. I presumed it was a Broadcom issue and have been trying to update the drivers in hopes it would fix my issue. Below is my output for my cards as I am presently using an AirLink to post this and get WiFi temporarily.
lspci | grep -i wireless
06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Am I supposed to take further action after installing the broadcom drivers via Synaptic, i.e. terminal commands and such or should it detect my hardware after install?
I am bewildered and really want a solution if possible. Thank you for the help.
Hello All,
Wow, I am only a few hours into Linux Lite and I can tell you from all my distro hopping that this is the best distro of any I have tried! I have gone through about 15 distros and was looking for something lightweight but beautiful and configurable and LL fills the bill in so many ways. Thank you so much to the developer and his team for all their hard work and for such a tremendous distro. I will be recommending and installing this on every one of my user's systems when they are looking for a change from Windows/Mac. This is my go to distro and I cannot wait to see what the future holds.
Installed properly from USB to sata drive,
on reboot 1.0.8 refused to start X
dead stop.
releases need to be tested on REAL machines and not virtual machines.