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by GS3
Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:28 pm
Forum: Virtual Machines
Topic: VMware will not start guest OS
Replies: 1
Views: 579

VMware will not start guest OS

I have two different machines almost exactly alike in HW and SW running VMware 17 and LM20. Both start VMware. Then I have a virtual OS (Win XP) which starts fine on one machine. I start VMware and from there open the guest OS. On the other machine this does not work. I start VMware and I navigate t...
by GS3
Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:31 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Very slow Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5357
Replies: 10
Views: 594

Re: Very slow Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5357

it should be Xfce on that one at the most! dual core 1.3GHz, yea, for sure. I would use mint 20.x too honestly. 21 is heavier, go with the lesser requirement. You could tweak it heavily too. bluetooth? printing? what else? you shave off 4 or 5 processes and gain an extra 186mb of ram(the lesser gai...
by GS3
Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:29 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Very slow Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5357
Replies: 10
Views: 594

Re: Very slow Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5357

You have a 6.2.x kernel installed; is that on purpose? I am not sure what you mean by "on purpose" but I just installed LM.21 and never did anything with the kernels (that I am aware of). Or maybe I installed it without being aware together with other updates. I see it also has 5.15.0-86....
by GS3
Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:56 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Re: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

Clonezilla not working either. Using Gparted I shrunk the main partition in my 500GB SSD so it would fit in a smaller drive. It still boots and works fine. So far so good. Then I tried cloning the SSD to a 160GB Seagate 2.5" Momentus drive, this time using Clonezilla but I get the error that &q...
by GS3
Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:51 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Re: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

I am going to be busy for the next few weeks and I am putting this on hold but so far I have learned that it is possible and not too complicated; that I should use Gparted to resize partitions and that I can use Clonezilla or Foxclone to clone disks. So I have the basic tools and understanding. When...
by GS3
Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:56 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Why I have 2 Home Directories? [Solved]
Replies: 7
Views: 339

Re: Why I have 2 Home Directories? [Solved]

Just to try and be clearer, they are not exactly the same. Home in the first image is not the same as home in the second image. Your "home directory" is located at /home/oskar (or whatever username is appropriate). In the first image, Home refers to your home directory: /home/oskar . In t...
by GS3
Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:31 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Re: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

Are you booting legacy and did you do an "erase and install" of LM21? You can check your boot mode with efibootmgr , if it says EFI variables are not supported you are booting legacy, anything else is UEFI. I ask because there is a bug in foxclone, it fails to copy grub with this setup* a...
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:58 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Why I have 2 Home Directories? [Solved]
Replies: 7
Views: 339

Re: Why I have 2 Home Directories?

It is the same one.
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:46 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Re: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

Did you disconnect the source drive before trying to boot from the clone? Yes. The cloning process finished and said everything was fine. I removed the internal drive and I put the cloned one in its place. The BIOS sees it is there but when I try to boot it just blinks. It is a laptop with only one...
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:51 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Re: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

Connecting a drive via a usb-sata adapter is fine. I've done it many times in testing. Well the first experiment ended in failure. With Foxclone I copied the system disk to an external disk on a USB port and Foxclone reported O ll K orrect but when I put the new disk in the machine it will not boot...
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:33 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Re: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

I've done it many times, most recently switching from a 512GB nvme drive to a 1TB drive. As I only have one nvme slot I took a full backup of the 512GB drive, swapped in the new drive and cloned the backup to it. Once I had confirmed it booted okay, I used gparted to resize the partitions to use th...
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:04 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Re: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

From an imaging perspective, uefi boot is a lot more straightforward, all you need to worry about is the partition table and partitions. The whole point of using a utility like foxclone is that it takes care of these things for you. Read the section in the foxclone user guide on cloning. Subject to...
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:30 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Very slow Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5357
Replies: 10
Views: 594

Re: Very slow Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5357

Please post the output of: inxi -Fxxxpmrz $ sudo inxi -Fxxxpmrz System: Kernel: 6.2.0-34-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy Machine: Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA produc...
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:58 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Very slow Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5357
Replies: 10
Views: 594

Very slow Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5357

I was tasked by my HQ (AKA "wife") to have a look at a couple of nephews' laptops which were too slow. I proceeded with my general protocol which is to (1) replace HDD with SSD, (2) expand RAM and (3) dump Windows and install LM Cinnamon. Both are old machines with dual core processors. On...
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:06 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Re: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

Thank you both for your replies. Yes. foxclone (linked above), or clonezilla are pretty decent GUI options. I'm a fan of dd myself (commandline, easy enough, but a little more dangerous since it doesn't ask "are you sure"). It used to be, in ye olden times, that a HDD had a partition that ...
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:20 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Desktop disappeared [solved]
Replies: 17
Views: 537

Re: Desktop disappeared

spamegg wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2023 9:54 amCopy/paste that file into the ~/.config/autostart folder and reboot, what happens?
I have restarted several times and this work-around seems to have fixed the problem but I am still very curious as to why the problem happened in the first place.

Thanks for your help!
by GS3
Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:17 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Recommend an email client - not Thunderbird
Replies: 20
Views: 770

Re: Recommend an email client - not Thunderbird

Email clients didn't used to be that way. In my memory, and I am old, they were always "that way". How else could they be? I think you may be misremembering. If you are trying to set up something for someone who is impaired and you want it to be extremely simple you can configure a client...
by GS3
Thu Oct 12, 2023 4:26 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?
Replies: 17
Views: 765

Possible to transfer OS to another HDD?

Is it possible to replace the computer's HDD or SSD and transfer to it the OS so that the computer works exactly the same as before? Simplified scenario: I have a new empty SSD and want to install it in place of the old, smaller one but keeping the OS. Is this possible and practical? I mean with lar...
by GS3
Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:20 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Desktop disappeared [solved]
Replies: 17
Views: 537

Re: Desktop disappeared

Copy/paste that file into the ~/.config/autostart folder and reboot, what happens? Nope. Does not autostart. But I open nemo with the icon on the quickstart bar, navigate to /usr/share/applications/, double click on nemo file and the desktop appears. Would it be possible to add a custom command in ...
by GS3
Thu Oct 12, 2023 9:45 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Desktop disappeared [solved]
Replies: 17
Views: 537

Re: Desktop disappeared

I have this file: bat /usr/share/applications/nemo-autostart.desktop ───────┬──────────────────────────────────── │ File: /usr/share/applications/nemo-autostart.desktop ───────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1 │ [Desktop Entry] 2 │ Type=Application 3 │ Name=Nemo 4 │ Comment=S...

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