Installation for beginner.

[jo.don]

[quote author=JO Don link=topic=7577.msg53234#msg53234 date=1596823177]
Thanks for your considered response. It has given me the encouragement to continue. Not very encouraging to find the writers of the OS get something like that wrong.

I've used Linux in the past and a couple of other OSs. Since the advent of modern PCs of course, it has mainly been an alternative to Windows, which, let's face it, has ticked all the boxes. The manual for Linux Lite seems to confirm this.

My PC's PSU decided to take up smoking recently so was out of commission for a time. A new PSU wasn't cheap! The Linux PC was so slow, I really need something a little better designed.

The biggest problem these days seem to be most OSs are so filled with bloat, they slow down all but the fastest, machines. Back in the days of FORTH of course, you could easily dump what wasn't needed. Now it's hit and miss, especially since so many programs seem to rely upon so many others to function.

Hoping Lite will let the old PC run a bit closer to what it was designed to do.

I'll try a few more key presses. The manual no-doubt exists somewhere, since I rarely throw books away. But that's an adventure for a different universe.

I have contacted Novatech, from whom I bought the PC. Alas, no response as yet. (And I remember when they were just a room in the back of someone's house. Now they seem to busy for anything!!)

I was hoping someone on here could suggest a file, possibly in the BOOT directory, which I could double click.

As others have pointed, you have to reboot your PC, enter its BIOS settings by pressing some Fn key or ESC or DEL, this varies across machines and systems. However, most will tell you what key to press to perform certain action; when rebooting/starting your PC, pay attention for whatever message that shows on screen, it may be something like shown in the image below

take note, memorize it whichever method you prefer and restart it again, this time press the appropiate key the message told you to, you should now enter your BIOS settings, there should be a tab for boot priority, use the arrow keys to switch tabs and go there, it might be something like this

or this

Every system is different but generally speaking, you have to find and change boot device priority from your HDD to your USB device where Linux Lite is on and which should be plugged in while doing this so can select it from the options, once you've done that, press F10 which in most systems saves changes and exit, otherwise look for some text indicating which one in your system does that, once you've saved your changes the PC will restart automatically, if everything went fine you should see LL boot menu

or if UEFI

choose start live if you want to try and check that everything works as expected or choose install Linux Lite to start with install process, from there on just follow the on screeen instructions as explained in the help manual https://www.freecinema2022.gq/manual/insta...stallguide and in no time your new shiny Linux Lite OS will be installed and ready to use.

Hope this helps!
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Thank you. This is interesting and detailed. Very grateful for your efforts.