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From Win to Ubuntu to Linux Mint
I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop to fix my Sansa e280 last week. A couple of days later I changed the distro to Linux Mint KDE 18.2 64bit UEFI. It’s running great on that old HP laptop. On Tuesday of this week I put that same iso on a DVD to dual-boot install Linux…
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Dual-Booting and Data Reclaiming
I have a Seagate GoFlex Desktop 3TB drive, I wrote a post about it previously to this one. I was able to get a live Ubuntu DVD going which proved via Testdisk that I did have harvest-able data on it. That just wouldn’t work on my big Desktop computer though. I finally just bit the…
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Installing RTL8192se in Linux
I’ve done this more times than I wish I would have had to … based on many reasons, but the basic thing is, I have it down, at least how to do it with a good fresh install of an updated linux system. I use Fedora, have done this in Fedora 12 and Fedora 13.…
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Fedora 12 working well for me
I was working in Fedora 12 earlier today and found I had somehow installed a newer kernel … something I was doing last night got me there. I didn’t like having it in my bootmenu … and didn’t want to have a different linux to boot to, I’ve only worked for a day or so…
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Fedora 12 on HP tx2513cl dual-boot Vista
This past week I installed Fedora 12 on my desktop computer, dual-boot with Win XP. I haven’t gotten the wireless card working that is installed in that computer, it works great in Win XP, matches our router too. Both router and wireless card have been abandoned by D-Link, meaning: no updates for future OS usage,…