MY LIBIQUITY LAPTOP!
Arrived moments ago!
My wife said it was delivered precariously halfway (inside/outside) our
wall-mounted mailbox - the package is oversized for the mailbox and the
U.S.P.S. mailman should have knocked on the front-door to hand deliver or
placed it on the porch floor. If it had fallen from that height it would have
damaged the laptop.
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The first thing I noticed was the box-package had a penetrated hole that has
me thinking it went through rough handling during shipping.
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However, upon opening the box the added bubble wrap was a needed protective
barrier in place, Yay!
Picture 3 and 4
The laptop was in a sealed bag and docked.
The three cables and power adapter were in separate bags.
I did not find any instructions.
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All 5 contents are shown in this image or 6 contents if you separate the dock
from the laptop which were shipped connected or docked. I forgot to include a
small white envelope with 3 Libreboot stickers with the iconic leaping deer
black-silhouette image.
1 ea. Taurinus X200; 8 GiB RAM; 1 TB HDD;
1 ea. Dock with CD/DVD Drive
1 ea. AC power adapter
1 ea. 5ft network patch cable
1 ea. 12inch adapter cable (not sure but maybe VGA)
1 ea. 12inch adapter cable (not sure, maybe a card reader)
The laptop has some scratches on it but doesn't appear to be any noticeable
damage.
I am feeling like a klutz, having difficulty opening the laptop, where is the
latch? Everything is black and challenging to determine which latch is for
the dock and laptop after fumbling I got it to open -Yay!
Plug it in and let's power it on!
The green Trisquel desktop screen comes on with the system configuration
menu.
Oops the latop is auto connecting to the local WiFis in the area - how to
power off?
I push what appears to be the symbol for powerbut it doesn't power down so I
close it hoping it will halt and go to sleep or power-off automatically.
Move the laptop to the office where the ethernet and modem boxes are, plug in
the ethernet cat6 cable, now open the laptop's lid and the sceen lights up
showing ethernet connection to the internet. I will now go through the
systgem configuration menu...
Success!!!
My first time seeing a logon box for "Ron" asking for password!
Ok, the firs tasks I completed were change the screen background/wallpaper;
sleepmode/powersaving; and settings for sound. While in the system settings
GUI I noticed there is no Gparted app. I'll have to learn how to install
packages and apps that I need. I see 160MB updated software is available for
download, I'll start that now.
Now I am in a happy mode, despite my unfinished project installing Trisquel
on my old server-a/v blog work-horse.
I thank everyone here on the forum and Libiquity for encouraging me to find a
GNU computer distributer.
Thank Libiquity for safely shipping it to me.
Chat with you all again soon, cheers!
