The big topics:
- How to come from Windows
- Obtaining and installing MX-18
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I will upload S1 as soon as I get a minute to incorporate all the great comments--for which, thanks!
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......"
https://github.com/MX-Linux/mxumKBD wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:56 pm Could you post a direct link? I can't seem to find it on the github page:
https://github.com/MX-Linux
Should bemxum wrote:2.2.3 Create the LiveMedium
DVD
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Use a good quality writable DVD-R with a 4.7 GB capacity.
Thanks!timkb4cq wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:09 pmhttps://github.com/MX-Linux/mxumKBD wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:56 pm Could you post a direct link? I can't seem to find it on the github page:
https://github.com/MX-Linux
Not sure how this should be worded but fglrx is a no go. MaybeSwitch graphical driver (e.g., from radeon to fglrx, or from nouveau to the proprietary Nvidia driver)
With Debian 9 and onwards, the only way to use AMD GPUs is with the free radeon driver (with its companion non-free firmware in firmware-linux-nonfree), or for newer GPUs, its successor, amdgpu (and on these, you could if necessary use the proprietary AMDGPU Pro driver).Switch graphical driver (e.g., from radeon to AMDGPU (for newer GPU's), or from nouveau to the proprietary Nvidia driver)