gcmartin wrote:Hello @Otropogo
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- System boots OK to desktop from DVD
Not quite. There was difficulty first in recognizing the ethernet card, then in makinfg the connection. There was also trouble with a black screen instead of display. I had to reboot a couple of times before I got a desktop, no idea how it resolved, but then no options for resolution were offered. Might have to do with dual displays connected and/or dual display adapters, the other being Intel.
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/*:m][*]You filled in FirstRUN (Personalized Settings) with all the local settings you desired.
[*]Seems all goes well in its use for that booted session[/list]
Questions
No nothing got saved, as it turns out, no firewall setup no time zone. Obviously a write problem, but there were no error messages.
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list][*]Where did you do your initial save-session? (DVD or somewhere else or both over time)
I booted first from a rewritable LiveCD, which was NOT written multisession (at least, that's not what I ordered). While in that session, I also tried to install to falsh USB, twice. Maybe that got Lighthouse confused...
When I rebooted, nothing got saved, its seems. I didn't have time to really check out all the hardware, or any of it, really.
One thing I did notice is that my wireless mouse woulsdn't work as it does in Windows, attached to a USB port on the external keyboard attached to a USBhub. It wouldn't work attached directly to the hub either. I had to plug it in directly to one of the laptop's precious usb3.0 ports before it would work (sluggishly).
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]As far as you could tell, did Mariner discover all of your PCs peripherals, OOTB: HDD partitions, USB devices, sound, LAN cards, etc.?[/list]Let us know if files on peripherals can be seen and devices are functioning.
You'll have to tell me which app to use for that.
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From your description, which did you do next? I can see efforts at changing drivers and efforts at moving LH64 to your media devices. Which would you prefer to run normally: Live DVD, Frugal, or Full. (note: booting from many peripherals does NOT offer any boot speed increases over Live DVD. ,,, excepting HDDs/SSDs)
I want to boot and save the way I've been doing for three or four years with Lupu528, boot with the bootloader on a flash card, load the main sfs and any additional sfs from the PC's hard drive, run in RAM, and save back to the save file on the hdd. It's hugely faster than anything you can do from a LiveCD/dVD and it frees up the burner almost immediately so you can use it for other things.
nVidia Setup
I have always found this to be problematic with all of the PUPs I use, so I understand your driver install frustrations. Seem somewhere early on in this thread, one member provides some insight and guidance to exactly that.
Request to anyone reading
- Is there a thread that gives a How to set of steps to add nVidia and use xorgwizard to change the driver, where it is clear and straightforward in PUPs?
That's a minor issue, compared to what I just discovered today, trying to do the same thing on my wife's non-UEFI Windows 7 laptop, that still runs Lupu.
NB: IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE TO ANY NTFS PARTITION WITH THIS INSTALLATION, BECAUSE THE NTFS MODULE IS DEFECTIVE.
It took a lot of work and frustration to fix this three years ago by finding and installing (with the help of others, of course) a working NTFS-3G module. I really didn't think this ugliness would rear its head again.
If nothing else, there should be a warning in the installation instructions that you're wasting your time trying to save your save file to an NTFS partition. It's only at the very end, when you go to shut down the liveCD boot and select the partition, that you get this message "...NTFS-3G driver unable to mount the partition... using internal driver to mount in read-only mode...".
So even the liveCD/DVD option won't work for me unless I'm willing to create a fat or Linux partition on the hard drive for Lighthouse which I won't be able to access from within Windows...
What bugs me about this persistent flaw is that it's probably a well considered deliberate choice motivated by dubious principles. I hope a simple fix is available or it's Sayonara Lighthouse for me.
Should be able to find the old discussion in the lucid528 thread by looking for NTFS-3G.
One other tip DON'T use the COMBO usbflash option. For some reason it creates two partitions, without asking or being asked, then tries to install Mariner in the smaller one, and then tries to boot from the one that was left empty! I finally succeeded in booting from flash by choosing USB HD install, legacy.
But, as I said in the previous post, you'd better use a fast (ie. expensive) USBFlash card with at least 8GB of space., because all your sfs files will have to be on that card, and will have to be loaded into memory from it every time you use them. And shut down will be delayed too, because LH seems to like waiting until the end to save any changes you've made.
Oh, almost forgot. It doesn't shut down properly either. I had to do hard power down every time on both the win7 and win8 machines-slow, frustrating, hard on the on/off buttom. And on a laptop like mine, on which the only access to the battery is by removing 10 tiny #5 torx screws on the base, and then another three screws on the battery, your hardware could easily fry while you're trying to shut down.