Re: MX-18 Users Manual: Review (S2)
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:29 pm
Thanks.
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mxum wrote:2.4.2 The standard opening screen
When the LiveMedium boots up, you will be presented with a screen similar to the Figure above; the installed screen looks quite different. (The 386 ISO offers both the pae and non-pae versions.) Custom entries may also appear in the main menu. Detailed Help on this screen can be found in this document.
Just created & booted a 32bit MX-18 usb drive to check. There is only one entry to boot into MX on the grub screen, and examining the flash drive, only one vmlinuz file. It appears that a non-pae kernel is not provided on the 32 bit iso.mxum wrote:MX-18 (<RELEASE DATE>)
This entry is selected by default, and is the standard way that most users will boot the Live system. Simply press Return to boot the system. On the 386 ISO two entries will appear, one for PAE (default) and the other for non-PAE.
Boot from Hard Disk
Allows for user to select a stored ISO to boot.
Memory Test
Runs a test to check RAM. If this test passes then there may still be a hardware problem or even a problem with RAM but if the test fails then you know something is wrong.
Thanks, that's good. That is really too much detail for the Users Manual, so I moved the whole topic to the Wiki and just link to it.asqwerth wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:26 pm Section 2.2.1
- page 4: this ties in with the comments in the other thread about which download link should be found on the Home page. I think it only makes sense that the home page should contain the first link set out in sentence 1.
Section 2.2.3, "USB" section:
- I feel a warning about using dd from command line should be added. Suggest adding this right at the end:
Then in the 4th bullet point above the warning, suggest the following consequential changes in red:"WARNING: be careful to identify your destination USB correctly in the dd command line string listed above, as the dd command will completely write over the destination device or medium named! You do not want to accidentally write over your data backup drive, for example.
To ascertain the correct device name/letter for your destination USB, type:in the terminal and press ENTER.Code: Select all
lsblk
A list of all devices connected to your system will be listed. You should be able to identify your destination USB by its listed storage size.""If the graphic USB creators fail, use one of the command line options below (now in Live-usb maker). Let us assume your USB is identified as sde (the naming format is sdX, where X is a letter of the alphabet like a, b, c, d, e, and so on), then copy and paste this line......"
section 2.3.3 Do I needMX Linux includes the tools Live usb maker
For less then
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:09 amThanks, that's good. That is really too much detail for the Users Manual, so I moved the whole topic to the Wiki and just link to it. ....asqwerth wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:26 pm
...Section 2.2.3, "USB" section:
- I feel a warning about using dd from command line should be added. Suggest adding this right at the end:
....."WARNING: be careful to identify your destination USB correctly in the dd command line string listed above, as the dd command will completely write over the destination device or medium named! You do not want to accidentally write over your data backup drive, for example.
To ascertain the correct device name/letter for your destination USB, type:in the terminal and press ENTER.Code: Select all
lsblk
A list of all devices connected to your system will be listed. You should be able to identify your destination USB by its listed storage size."