04-10-2017, 03:14 PM
I will do that next time. And I will take that answer from the Developer as a suggestion to drop trying to get this one to work given the many hurdles invoved. I also apologise for a couple of confusing threads that started with one topic and then morphed into another, albeit they were simply steps on a continuous journey of trying to work through the problems.
I actually have everything working fine now except the wifi which is intermittent. And the possible solutions online which involve installing the Atheros driver are complicated and insufficiently explained for my skill level, especially with intermittent internet. I ran into another issue: had tried to turn my 3 usb sticks into bootables. Only one seems to have succeeded. But now I can't use the other two easily since don't have permission (having wiped them in gparted as ext4). Which makes it hard to go to dying laptop to download stuff, then transfer over to new laptop to try to load. Doable, by opening as root in places, but clunky. In any case, it looks like:
Close, but no cigar!
I actually have everything working fine now except the wifi which is intermittent. And the possible solutions online which involve installing the Atheros driver are complicated and insufficiently explained for my skill level, especially with intermittent internet. I ran into another issue: had tried to turn my 3 usb sticks into bootables. Only one seems to have succeeded. But now I can't use the other two easily since don't have permission (having wiped them in gparted as ext4). Which makes it hard to go to dying laptop to download stuff, then transfer over to new laptop to try to load. Doable, by opening as root in places, but clunky. In any case, it looks like:
Close, but no cigar!