04-02-2015, 04:54 PM
Yup.
I wasn't being stupid. Well, anyway - not that stupid. But I have repeated the procedures very carefully, just in case.
I downloaded LL 2.4-64 bit (what it 'said on the tin') and installed it as a live version onto a freshly formatted usb (Fat32, since you ask).
I booted directly from that usb (not on my uefi laptop, natch - and that's a whole nother story guys) on my old fashioned BIOS machine (legacy?). All fine.
Then I looked at the System Information in the alleged Linux Lite 2.4-64bit live - and waddya know?... it showed the distribution labelled as 2.2
So, still via this live version I followed the link in the installation application to the 'release notes' - and my browser took me straight to release notes to 2.4.
But there was nothing in them indicating it would load as 2.2, that you'd have to do a double-witch-hex after install and before updating it, etc, etc, yadda, yadda.
This folks is what I call a bug(geration!)
No point in installing then. Because after the first time I successfully boot from the full installation (which it will do, 'cos it did last time) I will want to update it. And after I have updated it... It won't boot. Because Grub will be looking for the wrong thing. And since it won't boot there will be nothing I can do about it from within it, if you see what I mean.
Sigh...
I wasn't being stupid. Well, anyway - not that stupid. But I have repeated the procedures very carefully, just in case.
I downloaded LL 2.4-64 bit (what it 'said on the tin') and installed it as a live version onto a freshly formatted usb (Fat32, since you ask).
I booted directly from that usb (not on my uefi laptop, natch - and that's a whole nother story guys) on my old fashioned BIOS machine (legacy?). All fine.
Then I looked at the System Information in the alleged Linux Lite 2.4-64bit live - and waddya know?... it showed the distribution labelled as 2.2
So, still via this live version I followed the link in the installation application to the 'release notes' - and my browser took me straight to release notes to 2.4.
But there was nothing in them indicating it would load as 2.2, that you'd have to do a double-witch-hex after install and before updating it, etc, etc, yadda, yadda.
This folks is what I call a bug(geration!)
No point in installing then. Because after the first time I successfully boot from the full installation (which it will do, 'cos it did last time) I will want to update it. And after I have updated it... It won't boot. Because Grub will be looking for the wrong thing. And since it won't boot there will be nothing I can do about it from within it, if you see what I mean.
Sigh...