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wattOS R10 / Re: Reinstall Grub2? (SOLVED)
« on: September 02, 2017, 05:36:41 PM »
Yea!  So grateful!  I used the link Blaze suggested and it was a piece of cake.  One thing I realized while doing it....it was the 20gb hard drive that I needed to change.  Went smooth as silk!

Thanks again guys for your quick replies and helpful suggestions!

Zak

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wattOS R10 / Re: Reinstall Grub2?
« on: September 02, 2017, 04:06:16 AM »
Thanks Leenie!  Nice to see you again, too!  I will try these this weekend and report back with success or questions.

Thanks!

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wattOS R10 / Re: Reinstall Grub2?
« on: August 31, 2017, 04:59:39 PM »
Hey Blaze - nice to see you again!  And, as always, you are so responsive and helpful.  And...thanks for linking that thread.  I didn't think of doing that.

Yes, your link makes sense.  To make sure I understand, I will boot from the Watt LIveUSB, and mount the 130gb drive, where Watt OS is, and proceed with the instructions.  Is that right?

Thanks Blaze!

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wattOS R10 / Reinstall Grub2? (SOLVED)
« on: August 31, 2017, 12:50:30 AM »
Hey everyone...Watt's up? 8)

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 / Re: Non-Pae option?
« on: March 03, 2017, 04:14:22 AM »
Okay...I feel silly....apparently it is the same procedure as with Lubuntu.  I hit tab at the Live option and typed forcepae on either side of the dashes at the bottom after quietsplash.

Hope this helps someone else and if there are other thoughts/ideas, I am interested.  If I don't hear back in a few days, I will mark this as solved.

Thanks!

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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 / Re: Slow boot
« on: February 09, 2017, 06:37:41 PM »
Thanks for that idea Old Hack.  I just ran it and it shows this at the top:

9.050s dev-sda1.device

That is my /  drive,  which I am thinking is the one that should be loading.  9 seconds seems like a long time though.  Maybe not.  Any thoughts?


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wattOS R10 / Re: Slow boot
« on: February 09, 2017, 03:24:33 AM »
Thanks Old Hack.  I just ran that and had 5 lines appear in red.  I looked at the man pages and wasn't clear of the significance of these.  Do you have any thoughts on what these mean or what else I am looking for to determine the problem?

systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-26efdf04\x2de52d\x2d4859\x2dac00\x2d2269ce827ca0.service @11.574s +1.300s
home.mount @12.922s +318ms
apparmor.service @13.254s +3.608s
NetworkManager.service @17.918s +2.833s
rc-local.service @20.762s +3ms




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wattOS R10 / Re: Dell 720 Printer
« on: January 27, 2017, 06:06:45 PM »
Hey guys!  I am now on 32bit Watt and up and running with printer AND keyboard.    It was very easy to install the printer with the 32 bit.  Now I just gotta get some ink.... ;)

I installed the following to get it to work:

1) Cups
2) libstdc++5
3) lexmark.z600-0.4.deb

Thank you so much for all your time and patience. 

Zak

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wattOS R10 / Re: Dell 720 Printer
« on: January 26, 2017, 04:19:13 AM »
Hi Zak, my thoughts. :)

Since it is a real hassle to get things working, and it is important to get the printer up and running, you answered it yourself in #2. I would try with 32 bit. But then again I am a bit lazy, and do not like too much complications. :D

One question though, is it important for you to run 64bit? If yes, why? :)

Hi Blaze - I think my only concern with the 32 bit is whether it will see all the RAM (4GB) and whether it will run as fast and efficiently on 32 bit..  I have compared the machine using the 64 bit watt install and a 32 bit liveCD and it appeared to be about the same.   Any thoughts on this?

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wattOS R10 / Re: Dell 720 Printer
« on: January 24, 2017, 07:14:08 PM »
Hey Blaze and Leenie - I have reinstalled and am beginning the process of trying to get the 720 working.  One thing I did last time that may have contributed to the problem is, in order to install the 32 bit libstdc++ 5 and libcupsimage2,  I need to install some i386 version of dependencies.   I just installed libgnutls30:i386 and it is in the process of removing most of the applications on my system.  I did this before, but didn't realize this was the culprit, did a reinstall, and that was where I started with you guys. So, this will be another re-install.   :-[  I no longer have Synaptic or gdebi.  Just tried to install Synaptic, but it has a lot of dependencies of files that were removed.  Two, glib-networking-services, and glib-networking-common are already installed, but it is still telling me they are dependencies.  All the applications have been removed except for KeyPass, Image Magick,  Laptop Mode Tools config, and Root File manager. 

So, my questions are:

1) Any idea why  libgnutls30:i386 caused all of the applications to be removed?
2) How do I install libcupsimage2:i386 when it depends on  libgnutls30:i386?  Is this just not possible and should I run a 32 bit OS?
3) When I run sudo apt-get -f install, I get a long list of packages that were automatically installed and are no longer required.  And, I am getting messages about held broken packages.  Not a question...just info.
4) Is there a site or book you would recommend for me to learn about these things other than bugging you guys and trial and error?

Loving the learning process......thanks for any thoughts.

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wattOS R10 / Re: Dell 720 Printer
« on: January 23, 2017, 09:50:49 PM »
On second thought, I think I have taken enough of both of your time.  I will go ahead an reinstall as I think that will be cleaner anyway with all of the packages I had installed for the printer.  I am going to not close this yet, though, as I am hoping to be able to offer info on installing the Dell Printer once I get that figured out.

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wattOS R10 / Re: Dell 720 Printer
« on: January 23, 2017, 09:41:34 PM »
Hey Blaze....yes, I am getting close to reinstalling.  Right now, it is about the journey and not the destination.  However, I am wanting to move on as well. 

Did another Boot-Repair with the option to fix that flexnet and it gave me another https://paste.ubuntu.com/23853980/ and still no boot.

Looking more into the lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -12 message as that is still there and I might be booting just fine and just not seeing that I am at the log-in screen....

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wattOS R10 / Re: Dell 720 Printer
« on: January 23, 2017, 08:19:14 PM »
Hi Blaze and Leenie -

I had seen that FlexNet was detected while I was doing the BootRepair and it seemed like it wouldn't be a big deal (it appears to be a component of Adobe and some other Windows software)  After your questions about it, I am now doing a little digging and finding good info like https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1661254 and https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1976158.

I have not been successful booting yet, but planning on trying some of the things in these links and will post back.  It is weird how the Flexnet thing got in there as I have been booting fine for a while and don't use Windows.  And this was a clean install...

More soon and Thank you!

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wattOS R10 / Re: Dell 720 Printer
« on: January 23, 2017, 03:08:25 AM »
Just did the Boot Repair and here is the result https://paste.ubuntu.com/23849749/. It looks like the problem is with this line:

lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -12

I will do some more research.  Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts.

Thanks!

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