04-06-2017, 08:28 PM
First, Torreydale, thanks. (I don't see any link though!).
Also about the models: I did mention them as they came up, but not with model numbers. At first I thought it all had to do with the LL installation routine (because am not a techy and never had issues installing before - except partitioning problems if I tried to set up dual boot). This is the first time have had so many hardware-related issues. Lesson learned.
Btsnpcs: unless I misunderstood in terms of 'save you time and DVD's', it sounds like it is not a good idea getting very new chips/laptops etc. and I'd be better off with something older. I'm now using an HP laptop I've had for more than 5 years and it's overheating more and getting occasional disk error msgs. Time for a new laptop. But it looks like rather than a new new one, it's time for a new old one because then all these things will be well resolved. Pity, I like the Yoga, but it really is too difficult to get running. The first one I tried was an HP Envy, then an older HP Elite 17" which couldn't see the internet but I suspect as someone suggested here that this would have been fixable. But the problem was that I really don't like HP for some reason and always wanted to try Lenovo, so now I am. And picked a bad model to try with as it turns out. Oh well.
Thanks everyone. I will try working through some of the pages and if successful will report back. But it looks like this is well over my paygrade and instead I'll just buy a refurbished Lenovo 15" for $200 on ebay, wait a year or two until these fancy new ones work flawlessly with the Linux kernels, and then ease into them at that point.
Thanks to all, sorry if questions were vague etc. I found the whole thing very confusing having never had any installation problems before - at least not like this. I did once have terrible hard disk issues which, as it turned out, was not software but the hardware. And to this day I find setting up dual boot manually hard to figure out because only do it once or twice every 2-3 years. But usually you just put in a disk, run it, and away you go. Not with these babies.....
Also about the models: I did mention them as they came up, but not with model numbers. At first I thought it all had to do with the LL installation routine (because am not a techy and never had issues installing before - except partitioning problems if I tried to set up dual boot). This is the first time have had so many hardware-related issues. Lesson learned.
Btsnpcs: unless I misunderstood in terms of 'save you time and DVD's', it sounds like it is not a good idea getting very new chips/laptops etc. and I'd be better off with something older. I'm now using an HP laptop I've had for more than 5 years and it's overheating more and getting occasional disk error msgs. Time for a new laptop. But it looks like rather than a new new one, it's time for a new old one because then all these things will be well resolved. Pity, I like the Yoga, but it really is too difficult to get running. The first one I tried was an HP Envy, then an older HP Elite 17" which couldn't see the internet but I suspect as someone suggested here that this would have been fixable. But the problem was that I really don't like HP for some reason and always wanted to try Lenovo, so now I am. And picked a bad model to try with as it turns out. Oh well.
Thanks everyone. I will try working through some of the pages and if successful will report back. But it looks like this is well over my paygrade and instead I'll just buy a refurbished Lenovo 15" for $200 on ebay, wait a year or two until these fancy new ones work flawlessly with the Linux kernels, and then ease into them at that point.
Thanks to all, sorry if questions were vague etc. I found the whole thing very confusing having never had any installation problems before - at least not like this. I did once have terrible hard disk issues which, as it turned out, was not software but the hardware. And to this day I find setting up dual boot manually hard to figure out because only do it once or twice every 2-3 years. But usually you just put in a disk, run it, and away you go. Not with these babies.....