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|    Bobbie Sellers to Bobbie Sellers    |
|    Re: see PCLinux OS 2016.03 run    |
|    19 Oct 16 08:44:42    |
      XPost: alt.os.linux.pclinuxos       From: bliss@mouse-potato.com              On 10/17/2016 10:02 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:       > On 04/23/2016 07:23 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:       >> right here on my notebook!              >> Hi Typers and readers,       >> Got my Virtual Box install of Mageia 6dev1 running nicely on it       >> but for some reason I decided to move stuff over to       >> the PCLOS this afternoon and now we are cooking with gas!       >>       >> It seems to boot faster than Mageia 5.       >>       >> But the best things are the ease of setting up the Virtual Box and       >> LibreOffice5 oh and the fact it can use the (U)EFI and GPT.       >>       >> Maybe a few visits back to the Mageia 5 but maybe not.       >>       >> bliss       > So about 5 months now under PCLOS 2016.03 which has       > been kept fully updated.                Mageia 6sta fell over on every update and I wiped it       off the disk.              >       > No real problems and with some cunning moves I updated to       > kernel 4.8.1 today on the Pavilion here and have 4.8.2 running on       > the Dell. Cunning moves, Grub-organizer could not write the        That should be grub-customizer not organizer       > grub.cfg. I booted to root. used MC to delete the old file       > and Dolphin to rename the grub.cfg.new to grub.cfg.        Was mistyped "grub.dfg" but is now corrected above.        I guess I used up all my critical intelligence       Monday on the described operation with none left for checking       my typing.              > Did not have to do those cunning moves on the Dell       > which does not have a UEFI firmware but BIOS and GPT.       >       > bliss       >        And I did do the update on the Pavilion to 4.8.2.               bliss              --       bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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