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Progress but no progress. I screwed a few things up trying to sort the Home / data thing, and meanwhile I came to the same conclusion as Dave (but from a different direction). I shut down, changed the two main SATA cables over, expecting to sort out the drive identities, which it did. After checking the bios to be sure, I did a second install of Mint 19 Tara. This time it chose the 60gb SDD as sda, so from then on every thing looked OK.
HOWEVER, with completed install, it then did exactly the same, with ENTER having no effect after removing DVD.
I did the same as before, insert DVD, switch on, then select “Boot from local drive”, and here I am again, NO wiser.
Les
As my other new post will show, I have made a start with this topic. I copied everything from my data drive (the 250GB spinner) to backup drive first of course, together with the .mozilla and .thunderbird. After the install, the DATA drive was still there and fully intact as before. Good.
I then looked at both the new HOME and the DATA HDD side by side, with “Show hidden” for each. If I am to use the Data drive as Home, I guess it will need all of the hidden files taking across, so I selected all of them in home and attempted to copy to Data. Two folders, .dconf and .dbus refused to copy, telling me I did not have permission. Solution please, or just tell me it does not matter.
I will now investigate further all of DAN’s suggestions to complete the required transfer.
Les
I THINK I may be finally understanding what you (Dan) are saying. I could not find etc/fstab previously but I now realise (and you said 8 months ago) that I should find it via COMPUTER – File System, not searching in vain in the home folder.
I will study it further, then may “have a go” over the weekend. A full backup first, but maybe NOT blank the HDD and not need to copy back.
EDP, a few years ago I mastered the business of copying the .thunderbird from the home directory and using it to replace the .thunderbird of the previously opened and closed thunderbird, so OK there. Most important as I keep my emails back to the year dot (plus a bit, some early ones gone awol back in early widoze days.
Drezha, No idea if you are onto something, but it is better if I just follow one procedure. Dan’s it will be, I hope. Too easily confused with computers (software stuff, anyway, but I must be a dozen years out of date on hardware since retiring in 2006.
I will report back
Thanks all, , Les
There is a new Mint version, 19. Perhaps now is the time to do a new install from scratch, with HOME on the spinner from scratch. I will copy all my stuff to a backup drive, wipe the spinner clean do the fresh install to the SSD. So, I will repeat my previous final line from 8 months ago. —-
” I could simply REINSTALL once more to my now exonerated 500GB spinner, if anybody can suggest an “easy for me” procedure.”
Cheers, Les,
Well, I changed my router to the last new one I had from MT. No drop outs from my PC to router since. But I changed it for a good reason at the time?
I will do a speed check now. —- Well, I will be *********! Ping 38ms, D/L = 13.80mb/s, U/L 0.69mb/s. Highest D/L and U/L figures that I have ever measured.
Les.
The midges and horseflies are in my garden! They know I am here, and want to get to know me better.
I pick my damsons last week in August/first week in September (Manx Grand Prix time) and I am careful not to pop a damson in my mouth without ensuring no wasp attached. They are usually there in there hundreds. However, two years ago I never saw a single wasp whilst I picked close on 30kg.
A decent looking crop this year, all still green. I really enjoy eating damsons as I pick them. Picking them is an art. Dark blue with a characteristic appearance, a sort of thin white sheen. Superb taste.
Les.
Dave, I changed my router about 8 months ago. This one was from my pal who had just gone to a new contract. I will change back to my previous one which is possibly 18 months old.
If it stays bad, I will start at the incoming pair, then eventually start complaining. Whenever I have complained in the past, they did a speed test and of course it was OK.
Les.
Off topic I know, but earlier Steve referred to “Women and children”, with which I disagree. Now if you had said “My wife and my children” then I would agree 100%.
Many years ago I had a women running all the different functions in the lab, including SENSIBLY tidying my desk once a week when I was elsewhere.
Occasionally, she would tell me of some trivial disagreement with her hubby, at which point I realised there were WIVES and WOMEN, definitely different.
Les. Edit: Spelling.
The MT average of 12 down and 0.3 up would be OK if it was all the time.
My location, Kirk Michael is not shown on that map.
The fact that I frequently get a 0 for upload says something amiss. I have been confused by many disconnects (for which I initially rebooted router), then realising it was between my PC and router, but also from Tamara’s PC to router added to the uncertainty, followed by last week’s router to MT drop out. If I reboot the router, the printer looses connection, but I can now get that back by putting my router password back in at the printer. Just to make things difficult, one router re-boot lost me the scanning function of the HP 8500A printer/scanner, which refuses to reconnect. That is not helped by the fact there does not appear a scanner in Mint’s “hardware” section. Not much hair left, but steadily tearing it out. I should just go out for a ride on one of the ‘bikes!
C’est la vie!
Les.
Getting back to speeds, mine varies tremendously here. I just did a test, latency 141ms, D/L 8.4Mb/s, U/L nil
Repeat, 142, 10.6 and 0.37Mb/s. That is typical. Quite often it will not register any U/L speed. Frequently my PC loses its connection to router, I click the “off” button, then the “on” button, and it reconnects. The other night I was just about to go to bed when I noticed the bottom indicator (internet) on the router was red. I decided to leave it until morning to see if it reconnected. No reconnection, so I did a 10sec wait and re-boot, and normal (not very) service was resumed.
Some time ago I changed the router for a spare that MT had given me when I complained previously, but it got no better nor any worse. Page loading is very slow, unsurprisingly.
Every so often I get a shout from Tamara saying her connection is terrible. Not sure what I should do.
Les.
Bob, nice looking Pioneer, but too technical for me with Bluetooth and such like.
I have a DAB reciver in the shed, but useless here. I have a JVC Midi in the living room, but reception so variable that I frequently need to re-align the internal house antenna every so often for a few days. About one month ago, it was “relocated” under orders, and I laid out the antenna on a west facing window sill. Perfect results for about 2 weeks, then suddenly poor. I found that by hanging half of one side of it down the wall returned the reception to OK. It all depends on the weather. This current weather demands the “hanging side”, but I imagine it will need laying flat again when the rain reappears.
The problem could be solved if a few of these receivers had the same front end as my Nordmende Globetrotter, or my Grundig Satelit 600. Just looking at the circuit diagrams tells you all you need to know. You don’t need to understand the tech involved, just counting three or more times as many components must be a dead giveaway that some thought went into the design.
You suggest time flies Bob, I reckon it is supercharged. My elder one can give yours five years. He rang me on Saturday, first time for a while, to point out I had forgotten eldest grangson’s birthday. He NEVER sends me a card! My sister always used to remind me of everybody’s birthdays, but as she passed away last year, I am on my own.
Les, who is still being beckoned by the Grim Reaper; I just ignore him. Must finish, out on the ‘bike shortly for a club run. This one is always held mid-summer, and is to remember Absent Friends. Apt I guess.
Cheers, Les.
If memory serves, a 27″ whip length is about mid band for FM. If it is telescopic, try changing the length a bit either side of 27″. To be honest, not much modern stuff does a proper job of FM. Decent reception comes from a mid ’60s quality transistor set, and not a lot else.I have a late ’70s NordMende Globetrotter 808, and that will pull in just about anything, but it was an expensive professional set back in its day. I bought it from the importers at reduced price with a minor fault. I must have getting on for ten mid ’60s German trannies plus a NordMende valve set from about ’68. That last however needs a decent aerial where we live, as it is a terrible reception spot for R3 and R4 on FM.
Les.
I started using OOo years ago under Windoze, then my move to Linux (Ubuntu 8?? then 10.04) I continued as it was default in the typical install. I would not use the awful Ubuntu 12.x, so moved to Mint, where it was still default. An ownership change mean’t it was no longer “Free” (linux people will understand) so when a later Mint was released (17.1 I think), OOo was gone and LO took over. A few minor changes, but still basically the same prog, but now “Free”.
Other than that difficulty with long docs, Writer has served me well from the beginning, and by virtue of Wordstar for windows, Lotus Smartsuite, then OOo in a Linux install (IBM I think), as in the very beginning (1991) I had Wordstar for DOS. Yes, I still have those docs but now in .odt format. I also transcribed some Amstrad word processor stuff for a friend, via the 3.5 floppy conversion, thro to Wordstar then up to whatever I was using 20 years ago. My first computer wordprocessing was dome on an oddball Commodore +4, floppy drive and 7 pin printer. I published a few articles in Television magazine that way! I still have those.
Bob, 12 months ago I was across to bury my sister. I think that makes me pater familias now. May go over sometime soon, but not sure if and when.
Les.
I have been using open Office (now LO of course) for over 10 years. In the past, I have scanned, OCRed, then edited into OOo/LO a 100 page motor cycle service manual. From time to time it would give problems. I don’t think it lost stuff, but became so slooow, maybe shut down. I then started breaking it up into smaller chunks.
Wait, I have found it.From about 100 A5 pages, it went via four parts, eventually finishing as a 30 A4 page PDF. I don’t have a 30 page .odt, but do have the four .odt parts, plus four .PDFs, then the final PDF. Maybe I used software to combine the four into the one.
Obviously then OOo was having difficulties with large docs back in 2007. Not tried similar operations recently, but would have expected an improvement by now.
Les.
Perhaps this should be a new thread, but perhaps I should clarify. With Mint, I have kodi installed, but can NOT install any addons. I can sometimes install the “repository” source, but can not then install any of the addons containing the actual “feeder”.
My pal who has been playing with Kodi most days for the last year or so is finding that with his long established install, nothing will currently open. Of course since earlier this year, most of the repository creators have jumped ship due to US/Canada legal action. But some still worked only a couple of weeks ago.
He also has a windows PC with Kodi, and whilst many have gone AWOL, some still work, whereas his linux does not.
Not sure how his Pi install is these days, and of course due to lack of access to my TV, I can’t try my Pi either.
On MY Win 7 front, after 138 updates last night, and a raft more 3 times today (something downloading on it right now), I have installed KODI, but when I open it, it throws up an error and shuts down. That is likely a/c google to be the graphics generic driver, so I shall try to sort that out later.
Since I shut Win 7 down last night, it has spent more than 5 hours doing updates including the Kodi install.
The Pi was always much easier!
Les.
Just arrived here again after responding to Richards own Windoze moan, and it seems everything you have added here is what has happened today, with a 138 update install!
Les.
It seems as if KODI has just stopped loading on my Linux computer, but my pal still has it working on his Win 10 laptop. Consequently, today I decided to install it, but it decided that it needed an update No. *****38, which was downloaded. However attempt to install was greeted with “Not suitable for this version”! So, you need ****38 for Kodi, but my Win 7 Ult says unsuitable. And it was all very slow telling what could or could not be done.
I gave up and hit Shut Down, to be greeted by updates to be installed, the “Installing 1 of 138 updates. Three hourse later, I think it has finished. Will try it later. Maybe it WILL take Kodi now?
Still a big PITA, but what the hell is topping Kodi working on Linux now?
Les.
Thanks guys. I have not used Windoze since XP about 8 years ago. Second Tuesday, I will try to remember that. I guess I should make a point of switching it on well before I need it. I can’t see any other use for it than the F1, and if Kodi gets better, that will get the job again.
Cheers, Les.
Ed, they are still doing the same sort of stuff today. Look at all the deliberate destruction done by IS, getting rid of stuff offending them, but selling off the bits they could get armaments money for.
Les.
Dave, thanks for that. That last line looks like mu saviour. I will get onto it pronto.
Cheers, Les.
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