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wattOS R10 / Reinstall Grub2? (SOLVED)

« on: August 31, 2017, 12:50:30 AM »

Hey everyone...Watt's up?

I need some help. I have been using R10 for awhile (installed it on a computer I was given and that had previously had a different Linux distro). Been rolling along fine until last week when I wanted to live test SliTaz. I then wanted to return home to R10 after visiting the world of SliTaz and, when I rebooted (with all USBs and CDs removed and boot order reset to SATA HD booting first), it keeps coming up with the Slitaz Live CD menu. I have been troubleshooting with a very helpful guy (I am assuming guy....) named Ceel over at Slitaz and his assessment is that when I installed WattOS, I left a 20G partition untouched from the old distro. He thinks somehow I installed SliTaz on that 20G and the SliTaz's installer has overwritten the MBR and installed its bootloader. It appears that WattOS does probably still exist on the 130GB partition. He said to come back to wattOS, I have to re-install Grub2 from the wattOS LiveUSB, I don't know how to do that. Can anyone advise me?

Also, if anyone has any other thoughts of what might be going on, I would be grateful!

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wattOS R10 / Non-Pae option?

« on: March 02, 2017, 06:50:13 PM »

Hi everyone - I just picked-up a T41 laptop (love it!) and want to install Watt 10 on it (currently, it has Ubuntu Mate on it). Used the iso I had used to install on my desktop, but it isn't loading. When I tried a different distro, it gave me a message that PAE is not available. So....does anyone know if there a way to install Watt on a non-pae laptop?

Thanks!

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wattOS R10 / Dell 720 Printer (SOLVED)

« on: January 12, 2017, 06:54:18 PM »

Hi - I am trying to install a Dell 720 printer in R10 on a 64 bit PC.. I have followed the directions I have found elsewhere on the web, which state to install libstdc++5 for 64 and 32 and the lexmark z600 driver. I was able to install this on Zorin 12.04 on a 32 bit PC. What happens now is I install it succesfully, but when I try to print, it gives a message of "stopped".

Any suggestions?

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wattOS R10 / Keyboard shortcut NUMLOCK opens Screenshot R10 (SOLVED)

« on: January 12, 2017, 06:45:36 PM »

Hi - I have recently installed (and reinstalled...) R10. I am having an issue where if the NUMLOCK is on and I press one of the arrow keys or delete, Screenshot starts up. I have searched forums for Lubuntu, Ubuntu, and LXDE. I have found suggestions to access System Settings and keyboard shortcuts, but, even after installing unity-control-center (which didn't have a section for keyboard), I am not able to figure out where to remove this shortcut key on Watt OS. Any suggestions?

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wattOS R10 / Lollypop "please unlock your device"

« on: December 29, 2016, 06:50:16 PM »

I am trying to use Lollypop for the first time and have inserted a CD. When I open Lollypop and click on Audio Disc, I get a message in the right panel that says "Please unlock your device" and it has a picture of an IPOD. I don't have an IPOD connected to the computer. I can't figure out how to play and extract CDs. I have looked at the Lollypop website and couldn't find much info.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Zak

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wattOS R10 / Slow boot

« on: December 17, 2016, 06:07:23 AM »

Hey everyone - glad to have this place to come to for help!

I recently upgraded to R10 and the boot up is really slow. Shutdown is lightening quick, but boot up is painful. I have some computer knowledge, but am not an expert. Does anyone have any ideas on how to speed up the boot process or where to look for problems?

Thanks!
Zak

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wattOS R10 / Wallpaper

« on: November 10, 2016, 06:53:47 AM »

Hi - is the rock wallpaper from R9 available in R10 in addition to the new rock that R10 has?

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wattOS R10 / Wireless not working

« on: September 26, 2016, 03:28:40 AM »

Hello! I need some help with the wireless. I was able to get it working on r9 with b43 and fwcutter (v. 1:018-2), but I am not getting a wireless connection with R10. Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

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wattOS R10 / Busybox Initramfs with Live USB

« on: September 25, 2016, 12:21:06 AM »

Hello! I have been using R9 for a few months and am trying to upgrade to R10 using the same method I used to install R9, a live usb created with Multiboot. I get to a screen that says R10, but then the next screen shows Busybox and an Initramfs prompt. I imagine that maybe the image didn't get loaded right to the USB and can download again, but wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas before I do that.

Thanks!