Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Israel wrote: > > Great! > Well, either way I am glad you have wireless :) > Glad you have a working Lubuntu Laptop!! > Feel free to drop us a line anytime you have an issue! > > -- > Regards > Here is my new issue with Lubuntu. When I go to logout, I click on

Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

> Great! > Well, either way I am glad you have wireless :) > Glad you have a working Lubuntu Laptop!! > Feel free to drop us a line anytime you have an issue! > > -- Will do, thanks! -- ->Jerry<- -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

On 10/09/2014 11:31 AM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Israel > wrote: > > Hi Jerry, > > I forgot about the option of using ethernet during install to detect and > > install the needed drivers :) > > I have had issues where sometimes it i

Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Israel wrote: > Hi Jerry, > I forgot about the option of using ethernet during install to detect and > install the needed drivers :) > I have had issues where sometimes it installs the packages you indicate, > and those cause issues with the wireless. > I usually in

Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

Hi Jerry, I forgot about the option of using ethernet during install to detect and install the needed drivers :) I have had issues where sometimes it installs the packages you indicate, and those cause issues with the wireless. I usually install the b43 packages instead, but I am glad those work we

Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Israel wrote: > > Hi, > No Ubuntu distro will recognize the wireless out of the box. > I think Puppy will, and possibly even some Ubuntu based distros like mint... > however you can > search for broadcom wireless drivers in your package manager of choice or > i

Re: New Lenovo Netbook - /home in a different partition

On 10/05/2014 07:40 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: Aere, if you don't want to mess user configurations with different linux distros using a single /home, you can simply use different user names. Each user will have a different folder at /home, and all configs inside that folder, nothing will confli

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Nice Israel, actually, I was sure someone would reply with this particular solution. I have seen this on this list already. As I have never had problem with the Broadcom I own, I searched google for this specific model, that was what came first! Only now I saw your reply, which you created a new t

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Hi Andre, B43 has usually been very easy to install for me sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer On 10/05/2014 08:40 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: > Aere, if you don't want to mess user configurations with different > linux distros using a single /home, you can simply use different

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Aere, if you don't want to mess user configurations with different linux distros using a single /home, you can simply use different user names. Each user will have a different folder at /home, and all configs inside that folder, nothing will conflict... For files only, you can create a shared fold

Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

On 10/04/2014 08:51 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: > > > > > > Yes, I have just started recording > > the first DVD+R disc. I'm using the > Lenovo tool called "Create > Recovery > Media". It did not tell me how many > discs it's going to > take. The first > > disc just finished. It was the boot > >

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

On 10/04/2014 07:51 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: Well, I completed the system backup, using the Lenovo tool called Create Recovery Media. One boot disc and three data discs. I tested only the boot disc, it worked. Since it took so much time to get the C drive shrunk down to where I wanted it,

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

> > Yes, I have just started recording > the first DVD+R disc. I'm using the > Lenovo tool called "Create Recovery > Media". It did not tell me how many > discs it's going to take. The first > disc just finished. It was the boot > disc. Data disc1 recording now. > Well, I completed the system ba

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Yes, I have just started recording the first DVD+R disc. I'm using the Lenovo tool called "Create Recovery Media". It did not tell me how many discs it's going to take. The first disc just finished. It was the boot disc. Data disc1 recording now. On Oct 4, 2014 10:33 AM, "Andre Rodovalho" wrote:

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Jerry, I made 2 windows 7 backups... They take 4 DVDs (each). I used the Asus tool and Vaio tool, not that Windows tool.. (it was two different notebooks)... 2014-10-04 13:35 GMT-03:00 Phill Whiteside : > That's plenty of room! > > I've watched this thread with interest, but I've always been adv

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

That's plenty of room! I've watched this thread with interest, but I've always been advised to make windows resize it's own stuff. Glad that patience is paying off! Do let me know how many primary partitions you have free Regards, Phill. On 4 October 2014 16:58, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: > Well

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Well, I just completed a Disk Cleanup and that removed over 1 Gb of files. Tjen I reran the Shrink Volume process. This time it allowed C to shrink down to 113 Gb. Hallelujah, I'm almost there! I'm going to another defrag/clean up, then try again. If nothing gives this time, I'll probably just lea

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Sadly, Clonezilla does not yet support burning directly to (or restoring from) multiple DVD's. You seem to be well aware of that in the backup part of your plan. As I recall, to restore you would have to copy all those images from the DVD's to a single collection on a hard drive, network shar

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Sadly, Clonezilla does not yet support burning directly to (or restoring from) multiple DVD's. You seem to be well aware of that in the backup part of your plan. As I recall, to restore you would have to copy all those images from the DVD's to a single collection on a hard drive, network sha

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

he Windows side Good luck Art -- Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 07:10:13 +0200 From: Nio Wiklund To: jerry...@gmail.com Cc: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: New Lenovo Netbook Message-ID: <542f8135.1000...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Hi Jerry, We t

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Yeah, I figured as much. I am looking into using clonezilla to create compressed images, then burning those to DVDs. I really appreciate everyone who has responded. I have read all of your replies, and am cosidering all of your inputs. At this point I have, like I said before, shrunk C down to

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

I regard the Windows imaging tool as broken for the purpose of burning to DVD. I think it worked in early versions of Windows 7, but then they broke it in a later version. By the time they included the Win 7 tool in Win 8 (!!), DVD support was clearly broken, or I forget, not even presented

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

s have the option to repair, or even restore the whole system if you choose to use gparted and end up breaking the Windows side Good luck Art -- Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 07:10:13 +0200 From: Nio Wiklund To: jerry...@gmail.com Cc: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Sub

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Hi Jerry, We think that it will work to reduce the size of the Windows partition using gparted (from a linux live system). You are already warned against reducing the size too much. I think you should leave at least 100 GB disk space for Windows. There are no guarantees. So you need a good and cur

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

That's what I intend to do once I get the DVDs created. I was having trouble with the Windows backup tool writing to my external ASUS DVD-RW USB drive. It seemed to write data to disc 1, and then it would tell me to insert another disc larger than 1GB as Disc 1 again. I'll have to retry that tomorr

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Hi, Every so often I get a computer with windows on it, and I resize the windows partition for the person, so they can run their Windows only apps. I have never once had an issue. But really, most of the time, I only use Windows to update the BIOS. And then the next thing I do is install a flavour

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Yeah, I understand that it's a loaded question. I was just wondering if anyone here had tried it before. After I get my DVD images complete and tested, I'm going to try it. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: > Nobody will answer you for sure. Even if you contact Windows suppo

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Nobody will answer you for sure. Even if you contact Windows support... Give it a try. If you have any problems, you restore that. Better now that you have nothing on your Windows than later... PS: Windows 7 requires 20GB for 64bits architecture. 2014-10-03 20:26 GMT-03:00 "J. Van Brimmer" : > I

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

It has a 500Gb hard drive, but the "C" partition was only about 460Gb. When I ran the Partitoner from inside Windows, it would only shrink "C" down to 226Gb. I just now booted up a Lubuntu live 14.04 disc and ran Gparted from inside Lubu. Gparted says I can shrink "C" down to 36.6 Gb minimum. But,

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

"I am going to create a restore image DVD" -> This is it... I used to shrink WindowsXP partitions with Gparted and I had no problems so far. Even though, do nothing until you have the restore image on DVDs... User experience and taste vary. Today I rarely use Windows, and when I do, I use Virtual

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

On 10/03/2014 11:30 AM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: Hello, I have just acquired a "new" refurbished Lenovo X140e netbook. tI has Windows 7 Pro on it. The first thing I did after booting it up was to go into Partition Management to shrink the C partition to make room for Lubuntu. I was shocked to

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Hi, I'd like to add something here... You can image the entire drive to a compressed tarball if you have a device with enough storage space. So irregardless of what happens, you could always re-image your computer. I have never done it with Windows, but it should work just fine. The xz format will

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

On 10/3/2014 2:32 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: Thanks for your notes, John, very interesting. What I am primarily curious about is that the Windows partitioner will only shrink C to about 50% of it's original size, Gparted says I can shrink it down a lot more. I was just wondering, if I did that w

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

Thanks for your notes, John, very interesting. What I am primarily curious about is that the Windows partitioner will only shrink C to about 50% of it's original size, Gparted says I can shrink it down a lot more. I was just wondering, if I did that with Gparted, will that clobber Windows. On Fri,

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

On 10/3/2014 1:30 PM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote: Hello, I have just acquired a "new" refurbished Lenovo X140e netbook. tI has Windows 7 Pro on it. The first thing I did after booting it up was to go into Partition Management to shrink the C partition to make room for Lubuntu. I was shocked to di

New Lenovo Netbook

Hello, I have just acquired a "new" refurbished Lenovo X140e netbook. tI has Windows 7 Pro on it. The first thing I did after booting it up was to go into Partition Management to shrink the C partition to make room for Lubuntu. I was shocked to discover that the partition manager would only shrink