Help me, please! - CDROM and archive canonical

[stevef]

I am also confused. I wanted to be at the position of
Linux Lite 7.4 fully installed as the single OS onto the laptop's internal disk.
The Live media used for installation has been fully removed.
The laptop freshly rebooted from the newly installed OS.

The laptop doesn't have an erase disk

This instruction

Install Linux Lite to your system using the erase disk - uncheck the download updates option

was meant to ask you to select the 'erase disk option' - I missed the word option which has confused things further - sorry about that.

I tried booting and updating the package software both ways. It downloads the package but runs into problems installing it. I tried to save the error log several times so I could present it here, but when I go to the folder where it should have been stored, it's not there.

Not sure what you mean by 'both ways' - there are several ways to do update/upgrade. It is unfortunate that we can't see what your system is doing.

Provided you have booted from the laptop's internal disk, we can try another method to record progress. Open a terminal as before (Ctrl Alt and T)

Run this command to get the system to check for possible updates. You will need to enter your password if asked.

Code:

sudo apt-get update | tee ~/"$(date +"%Y_%m_%d_%T")-apt-get-update.txt"

Then run this command to initiate the upgrade process

Code:

sudo apt-get upgrade | tee ~/"$(date +"%Y_%m_%d_%T")-apt-get-upgrade.txt"

The second part of each command records the screen output to a text file in your home directory.

After running the commands you should find two new text files in your home folder. The filenames with be prefixed with the date and time that the commands were run. You can copy the contents of the files and paste them into the thread.