Hello All,

Asking this for a friend who's been rather vague with info passed to me  :-\
From what I can gather she's trying to install LL2 on an older XP machine she claims to have built herself, can't get it to boot from USB so she's made a DVD.
When trying to boot from it she gets a message "Cannot find the kernel image on boot, Error 2000."

I've installed LL2 on about 8 different older and newer desktops & laptops for other people & haven't seen anything like this before.
I suggested it might be the ISO corrupted or the disc reader/writer or other hardware failing though I'm told md5 is correct and the reader/writer works ok.
Tried about 5 or 6 different discs, lol, last we spoke I don't think she was too happy about wasting discs.
I did ask her to try the disc/s on another machine but haven't heard back yet.

I think she's given up but I'm curious to know if anyone has seen that error before or knows what that error actually means?

Cheers

I am thinking of dual-booting one of my laptops with Win XP and LL2, using a fresh install of each OS, with a common (shared) DATA partition for the contents of 'home' (with the exception of 'Desktop' which wont be shared).

I'll use service pack 4 to patch Win XP, as well as one or two other tips to enhance its security, as suggested by Jerry (Jerry Bezencon) on his extremely helpful YouTube videos.

My question is roughly how much HDD space should I apportion for each operating system?  I was thinking of 40GB for each but maybe I could get away comfortably with much less?

Many thanks for any comments.
Regards
Mike

In the installation guide notes you show clearly how to encrypt LL2.0 (home folder) following installation.
Apparently, when you are logged off LL2 the 'home' is  encrypted, and when logged on 'home' is not encrypted.

Consider the following set-up: a Win7 - LL2 dual-boot system where the folders in 'home' (with the exception of 'Desktop') are shared between the two operating systems on a common data partition.

Surely, if 'home' is encrypted using LL2, they will be inaccessible when booting up through Win7, as they are encrypted when you log off from LL2?  I'd be grateful for some clarification here - many thanks.

I understand that file encryption is important for file security in the event of theft, but does it also help to further protect a computer from viruses or other malware generally? I am just wondering, apart from the theft issue, whether it is worth encrypting. The laptop I have in mind is only used at home for my personal use (no other users). Should it be encrypted if there are other users sharing the laptop?

Many thanks for any feedback
Mike

I want to install some TTS program for Linux. After a search I found this YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2VbcoCw_oM

So I followed the instructions and installed both Festival and Xsel then I followed his entries into the command line, but somehow his results differed from mine:



I am not sure what I did wrong...

All i wanted was a TTS GUI interface...can anyone help?

THanks

I've been hit by malware (partner18mydomainadvisor), which has prompted me to check if the firewall is switched on, but after a search on LL2 I was unable to find it.  Where is it and how can I switch it on and it will stay on upon reboot.

Many thanks for any help.
Regards
Mike

My LL 2.0 has just been hit by the parner18.mydomainadvisor malware.  I have Firefox as web-browser and Google as search engine.
This is despite having ESET antivirus for Linux (paid subscription) on my laptop, as well as being up-to-date with all my LL2 updates.
It has already attacked my wife's Windows 8 on her computing and appears to be doing odd things to our mailbox.

Help !!!
What can I do?  I have seen some websites declaring that you can download their software to remove partner18, but how do I know they are genuine and not malicious?

Mike

In your experience,  what is the best application for downloading & playing podcasts on LL2?

I have tried both 'Rhythmbox' and 'Clementine 1.2.3.', and have heard of 'Banshee' but haven't tried it.

Clementine is superb: I love the way it lists all the RSS feeds to choose from on the the BBC, and you just click on the ones that interest you and Clementine downloads them.  It is less straightforward with Rhythmbox, where you need to copy and past the URL of the RSS of interest into the application.  In my view, the preset volume range for Rhythmbox is much better calibrated, being similar to the sound levels that most Youtube videos (which I watch a lot) run at. 

In contrast, Clementine runs very quietly both on LL2 and on two other distros that I tried it on - I had to turn the sound levels right up to near maximum to hear it at a comfortably audible level.  And there's the problem...  one time that I did this, I forgot to turn the sound levels back down when I went back to watching Youtube videos, and consequently my laptop speakers got blasted.  The result is that the speakers got damaged, to the extent that I am unable to enjoy listening to music on my laptop's speakers.

I am interested to hear any views/comments/recommendations based on your own experiences with podcasts.
Many thanks.

Regards
Mike

Goodbye XP!!

Loving LL2.0 so far on am old Latitude laptop, the XP drive has not been back in the drive bay since I gave LL "a try" a few weeks ago!

Looking forward to a new HTPC build which will use the 64 bit version.  Hardware pieces on the way to me in the mail.  AMD A6-6400 and ASRock FM2A88M motherboard, can't wait!

Also been fiddling with Raspberry Pi B+ and various media centers recently.

Hope to get involved with the community.

Regards,

Robert

Quote:PCIE RTS5209 card reader driver for Linux V1.10 2012/7/12

Quote: to remove __devinit keywords from rtsx.c file.
Open the file with a text editor and modify lines 916, 1080 and 1107:

Quote:/* Driver for Realtek PCI-Express card reader
*
* Copyright© 2009 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved. 
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
* Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
* later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
* General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
* with this program; if not, see <http:
*
* Author:
*  wwang ([email protected])
*  No. 450, Shenhu Road, Suzhou Industry Park, Suzhou, China
<snip>
Line 916: static int  rtsx_probe(struct pci_dev *pci, const struct pci_device_id *pci_id)
<snip>
Line 1080:  static void  rtsx_remove(struct pci_dev *pci)
<snip>
Line 1107:  .remove = rtsx_remove,

Quote:@SamizdataDotOrg I got the same error. To fix it, I deleted the line .proc_name = .proc_name on line 274 of rtsx.c. After that, unload the dependencies and reload rts_pstor.

Hi, just a question when does the support stop for v1.0.6? Does that mean when I click install updates nothing will happen when the time comes ? I love 1.0.6 I find that version is perfect for my netbook.

Thanks.