[Trisquel-users] Re : Issue with GRUB and existing /home partition in installing Trisquel mini
Instructions 7 and 11 of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#via_ChRoot give you a shell with root privileges and, indeed, you then need to 'mount /dev/sda6 /home'. That said, you can also get a root terminal from GRUB's menu, using the "e" key to edit the entry you will boot and adding the "single" option to Linux (as far as I remember). /home will be mounted with that technique. Realizing how easy it is to get a root terminal for anybody with a physical access, you may then want to add recovery entries to GRUB's "Advanced options for Trisquel" (or whatever it is called). Here is how: Open /etc/default/grub in your favorite text editor (here 'nano') and using administrative privileges: $ sudo nano /etc/default/grub Add the character "#" at the beginning of the following line of /etc/default/grub: GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" Save and quit; Update GRUB: $ sudo update-grub Recovery entries boot in root terminals. Your command is fine but, after reading some of 'man adduser', I am pretty sure it can simply be: # adduser --uid 1 --gid 500 jim Also, that command should create the group as well.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Issue with GRUB and existing /home partition in installing Trisquel mini
Okay, all of your posts are very helpful and I now have GRUB installed and can boot up. Now I need to fix the user ID issue so I can use the home partition and log in. Which I think I can do once I have a shell with root privileges. When booting normally, I can't log into my (new) "jim" account, and the guest account forbids root privilege. Is there another way, such as booting into troubleshooting some sort of troubleshooting mode? If I boot from the flash drive, I now know how to use chroot and drive mounting to "become" root for my installed system. However, can I also mount /home and have it be placed correctly? Do I need this? I was able to delete the user "jim" but haven't been able to create the user "jim" without having /home mounted. I know the user ID and group ID for user "jim" from the old OS (1 and 500, respectively). I tried the command adduser --uid 1 --gid 500 --home /home/jim --no-create-home jim Also, the group ID 500 apparently doesn't exist in the new system. So I need to create group "jim" with group ID 500 also? Getting there...but need a little more info. Thanks again!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux
> Given the rather modest hardware requirements of MATE, I do not see much > point in Trisquel Mini anymore. But maybe I am wrong: are there many > current users of Trisquel Mini who have 1 GB (or less) of RAM? I have a few machines (not my primary one) with 1GB of RAM, and there is a noticeable difference between Trisquel and Trisquel Mini, not so much in RAM usage but in the time it takes to start a session (MATE slowly adds in panels/applets/etc one by one until the session is usable) and responsiveness of desktop components like menus and the file manager. However, the biggest responsiveness issues I run into on these low-resource computers are with individual applications, which I don't think is an issue of the desktop environment. Abrowser takes about 40 seconds to load whether it's in Trisquel, Trisquel Mini, or Icewm, so choice of default applications seems like a bigger issue than choice of desktop environment, at least for 1GB of RAM. With even less RAM, the difference in RAM usage between Trisquel, Trisquel Mini, and something like Icewm might be more important. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux
I am one of them. Sometimes.
