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AFAIK the Toshiba Insyde BIOS is actually an implementation of UEFI, but it may be just specific versions. Are you able to get to the firmware? The behavior you describe is very likely hardware related, so we should probably start checking with the firmware on the motherboard. And while the Live ve...

I can't imagine any LM version capable of being installed to a 1.8GB / partition. Please post the results of the following command run in a terminal from your install media: df -m It is not handy at the minute, but you are correct (see my later post) that the LMDE install is actually using 4.9 GB o...

My SWAG would be the hard drive. Notice only 1.8 GB of data made it to the drive last time you installed. Don't recall exactly the installed size of LMDE, but would be a couple multiples of that. Installed size for the other desktops is about 8 GB. You can boot a live session and check the SMART da...

System: Host: mint Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 6.3.0) Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.8 (Gtk 3.22.11-1) Distro: LMDE 3 (cindy) Machine: Device: laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite C650D v: PSC0YC-02K026 Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC BIOS: Insyde v: 1.50 date: 04/07/2011 CPU: Dual core ...

Hello Folks! I am a long-time Linux user (especially Mint), and I ran into a problem that I have never run into before: Linux Mint (specifically LMDE) boots and runs just fine on an older Toshiba C650D laptop, but after successfully installing *multiple* versions of Linux Mint -- they all end up fai...

Not sure if I am answering the OP's question properly or not, but I typically create 4 partitions on my USB thumbdrives: - BIOS boot partition - EFI boot partition - ISO partition - LINUX or DATA partition I use GRUB2's ability to directly boot ISO files to populate one or more ISOs into the 'ISO' p...

I don't have any great ideas, but one thing that I always try to do when I want to help isolate tech problems is to try to use them in a different context to see if it makes a difference. In this case, my suggestion would be to try using it on a different computer (or, if this is a dual-boot compute...

If you can find a working wifi driver solution for your Dell laptops, that is clearly the way to go -- especially since you would then be free to try other distros, and run upgrades, etc. without jeopardizing your working solution. That being said, I'll again state that with appropriate Linux CLI co...

Well I set up the Emerson TV/monitor with the mirror setting checked in LMDE2. It changed things so that they were somewhat better. But now the situation is that the left and right edges of the image on the Emerson screen are cut off. An inch or so (maybe less) on each side. The image is otherwise ...

explodingbee wrote: ⤴Sun Apr 15, 2018 9:56 am HI,

That sounds like a possibility. How do I do it?

Vincent

In the same LMDE2 app as you were setting the 'resolution' -- the 'Display' app -- is a checkbox on the right side for 'Mirror displays'.

Perhaps what you want is to set your display as 'mirror' (both screens look the same), rather than 'extended' (what you seem to describe it as)?

administrollaattori wrote: ⤴Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:04 pm It works that way too. Using Etcher it is very easy to do.
https://etcher.io/

I think Etcher is cool as well! But I have only used it for making bootable USB sticks with OS images/ISOs -- can it also copy a regular Linux partition and make it bootable on a USB stick?

Not sure if this addresses the OP's question, but I have successfully been able to pre-partition a USB stick, install GRUB2 onto it, use 'dd' command to copy an unmounted Linux install, and then point grub to the new partition for booting -- all using CLI commands.

Question: Does LMDE share the same ability to install as an 'OEM' as does the regular version of Mint? Background: I have lately been wiping the hard drives of some old PCs that I own, and slapping on an 18.3 version of Linux Mint -- for the purposes of giving them away (or selling cheaply). Why the...

Yes, please. I also have Chromebook which runs on GalliumOS, where keys were already binded :D . You need to have these packages installed: apt install xbacklight apt install xvkbd apt install xbindkeys Then in '$HOME/.xbindkeysrc' you can have something like this: "xbacklight -dec 10" m:...

I was happy as a clam when I was able to install Mint 18.3 on my new HP 530-131 gaming desktop -- onto an SSD (leaving Windows on the HDD alone). No BIOS changes. Secure boot enabled. Everything cool. Installed Steam and graphics worked fine. Upgraded kernel to 4.15 to get sound working fine. But I ...

So my assumption is that over time -- without regular TRIM commands -- that the SSD would 'fill up' Invalid assumption. What TRIM does is clear unused blocks that have previously had data written to them, also called 'dirty blocks'. It also merges partial blocks into single blocks. This speeds up w...

Yep, this is one of those classic situations that I have run into as well -- where useful technology has been abandoned in the Windows world, but for which Linux continues to have easy support!

Not sure if this addresses your question or not, but here goes: Chromebooks come with pre-assigned function keys in the top row of the keyboard, two of them being screen brightness controls. When people like me want to dual-boot their Chromebooks to run Linux, they like to reproduce this functionali...

Hm, so command capability would be major factor in optimization. That makes sense. What would be the effect of lacking the TRIM commands? Just bloat, or something worse? I believe that it is TRIM functionality that allows no-longer-used blocks to become available again for re-use. So my assumption ...