[Trisquel-users] Re : Issue with GRUB and existing /home partition in installing Trisquel mini

2019-01-21 Thread lcerf
Instructions 7 and 11 of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#via_ChRoot give you a shell with root privileges and, indeed, you then need to 'mount /dev/sda6 /home'. That said, you can also get a root terminal from GRUB's menu, using the "e" key to edit the entry you will

Re: [Trisquel-users] Issue with GRUB and existing /home partition in installing Trisquel mini

2019-01-21 Thread jimgarrett
Okay, all of your posts are very helpful and I now have GRUB installed and can boot up. Now I need to fix the user ID issue so I can use the home partition and log in. Which I think I can do once I have a shell with root privileges. When booting normally, I can't log into my (new) "jim"

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux

2019-01-21 Thread Mason Hock
> Given the rather modest hardware requirements of MATE, I do not see much > point in Trisquel Mini anymore. But maybe I am wrong: are there many > current users of Trisquel Mini who have 1 GB (or less) of RAM? I have a few machines (not my primary one) with 1GB of RAM, and there is a noticeable

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux

2019-01-21 Thread fredo
So am I. Often

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux

2019-01-21 Thread amuza
I am one of them. Sometimes.