I want to password protect a folder and thought cryptlocker would do it for me?
cannot seem to get it to install tried the terminal but the system can't seem to find it
anyone got any idea's? ???

I have a generic trade show kiosk with an ITX motherboard whose 47" touch screen is rotated into portrait orientation. With every disk access, it seems, and with every mouse movement from mouseover text item to mouseover text item, there almost always seems to be an equivalent, slight waviness that appears slightly in the screen, and also a bit of static on the speaker in exact relation to the waves or ripples on the screen. Not having had a trade show kiosk before, I have no idea what might be causing the visual and sound artifacts I'm getting. The speaker works well, otherwise, as does the monitor and touchscreen.

Well, I think I may have an idea, and I'm wondering if it could come from isolated PCB and component grounds—that whoever built it took the monitor's PCBs apart, reassembled them and other parts into the trade show cabinet, but maybe never grounded all the individual chassis grounds together. If so, now all the ground levels are floating and maybe causing the static.

If the individual components need a common ground bus, will that ground be different from the mains ground? I'm not an electrical engineer or electrician.

Is there anyone familiar with building and debugging trade show kiosks who can give me any pointers?

I am installing Linux Lite for a first time. I have two disks on my laptop and i am installing Linux Lite on the second disk. I created one partition for boot (unencrypted), and one partition for root (encrypted). The installation went well, and i also installed grub on the second hard disk.
But after rebooting i get to the grub boot screen, then it starts loading the system and then i get black screen with terminal input for <initramfs>.
How should i proceed? Is this a grub misconfiguration?

I keep seeing Jerry telling everyone to use Etcher or Rufus via his release announcements, and this annoys me greatly because both apps are bloated and terrible and have circumstances where they fail.

What I offer you is a simple, enlightening and powerful full proof method to install any OS to any medium except flash cards that works with any Linux including Live Linux pending 4-8GB RAM (for Live).  As an example, you can install tails to your internal hard drive or emmc. 

So you have Linux loaded and have downloaded the image file of your favorite distribution ready to be etched to your anything of sufficient capacity other than flash cards.

Let's begin.

Open terminal of choice.

Step 1:

cd /media
sudo mkdir iso
sudo mount -o loop /path/to/iso /media/iso
If you got no errors continue to step 2
Failure to put both paths or incorrectly expressed will produce an error.
If you see the following error: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage...
sudo fdisk -l -u=sectors pathtoiso
This will display the sector size of the image as well as the starting sector.
Just multiply them, so if sector size is 512, sector start is 2048 = 1048576
sudo mount -o loop,offset=1048576 pathtoiso /media/iso

Step 2:

sudo apt install gparted
sudo gparted
Find your target, delete all partitions on it, and apply.
In some instances, i.e., ISO9660, you cannot delete the partition thus you must format to "cleared" and apply.
Click on Device, create partition table, ms-dos.
Click on Partition, new, change partition type to FAT32, and apply.
Right-click on this new partition, select manage flags, and select boot.
Take note the /dev/ name of that partition which for me is sdc1 in the next step.

Step 3:

cd /media
sudo mkdir drive
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/drive/
Be careful, a partition cannot end with a /, but a folder can.
sudo cp -a --no-preserve=mode,ownership /media/iso/. /media/drive/
Disregard all errors regarding symlinks; no critical/important live boot or installation file is ever symlinked.
FAT doesn't support symlinks, but is need for BIOS/EFI boot capability.
df -h
Look for the last loop device which refers to the /media/iso loop we created earlier
sudo umount /dev/loop0 (failure to do this step will yield device in use error in the next step)
sudo umount /media/drive/ (this will take a while but when complete the files are copied)
Before you go any further wait for your file manager to also show the drive is unmounted.

Step 4:

Set your bios to support legacy boot, turn off secure boot, at grub menu choose EFI boot option if available.
Normally EFI requires secure boot files, but many distros don't include them.
We do the above to bypass errors.
It goes without saying that many unofficial Windows distributions are flawed and may produce errors.
Often the solution is to use the original boot.wim (which includes all the drivers).
Authors trim this, and that is largely stupid.
As for Tails, it likes virtualization to be ON in BIOS/EFI and you need to remove "live-media=removable" from the boot sequence, and press F10 to continue to a successful boot.

so, I had thought my computer was crashing overnight. however:

(11-19-2020, 12:32 PM)stevef link Wrote: Sounds like it could be a hardware fault.

Can you confirm that if the PC is left without the USB drive connected that it works ok and doesn't lock up ?

Greetings.

So, I have this problem:

I have installed two diferent Gnu/Linux distros into one of my machines: Elementary OS and Linux Lite.

The problem is that now I want to delete Elementary OS, but I have messed the partitions that much that now I don't even know how to do it.

Here's how my partitions are looking now (excuse I don't use Imgur, it's not letting me upload the image):

https://postimg.cc/WtPRR5fq


Green marked are Elementary OS partitions, orange ones Linux Lite's. I have created two different /boot thinking it was necessary to every single distro.

My question is: if I delete all of the Elementary OS partitions I mess up LL?

Thanks.

Tried several ways to download Olive edition software and always get "cannot find olive-editing" replay. Going to Olive site and copy/past commands give the same results.
Ideas?
L/L 4.8

Executive summary:

Once an installation (from a thumb drive with persistence) goes bad, it can work the next time if (only if) the thumb drive is reflashed. Errors, inaccurate settings, and incorrectly recorded data seem to be introduced through the persistence implementation. The errors don't show up on the install screen and they don't ever go away. So, reflash and restart the installation.

--- End executive summary

I spent three days hammering away at this one, and now I believe I have data that proves that there are problems that exist in the way the installer's partitioning portion of the installation inaccurately records the partition information which gets maintained from session to session when booting from a live thumb drive.

What am I saying?

Running from a thumb drive, once the install starts going south, stop what you're doing, reflash your thumb drive, and start all over again. The errors that stop the thumb drive install (with persistence) won't go away, nor are they displayed on the screen accurately, so stop, recreate a virgin thumb drive with persistence, and begin again. That's what worked for me, two different times, once I figured out where the problem existed.

Next time, I might even consider creating the thumb drive without any persistence, since it seems to be something in the persistence implementation that's not working right, something elusive which raised its ugly head and kept me from being able to install the LL 5.2 for three days.

From the installation partitioning portion of the software, it'll show an incorrect partition type, and yet it looks like it appears to be reporting it correctly... when it's not. That was really, really frustrating.

Quitting out of the installer and running gparted would show different partition formats--that was the nail in the coffin. I ran gparted and it showed a partition with an ntsf format, but opening the installer it displayed an edi format for the same partition. Weird. At this point, I was getting odd error messages during the attempted installation, saying that some of my partitions weren't able to mount. Frustrating again.

I cannot say it's the installer, or if it's the Rufus 2.8 I used to create the install thumb drive that's introducing the problem or problems.

The MD5 checksums of the DLed .iso file checked out, but when I ran the MD5 checksums from the thumb drive--which is does on every startup--it reported that there was an error in one of the files. I wasn't able to find out which file it was that held the error. The thumb drive had a full compliment of write and read tests done to confirm that it was a viable device.

I'm hoping, of course, that by reporting this that it can help others nail down their installation problems.

I have tried several linux distros and really like this one. I am an old windows user fro dos to win 10. Tired of the problems with windows and looking forward to learning something new. I am 74 years old and travel in an rv. Yes I am retired. 8)

hey guys, im new on linux and when im tryng to boot the installer i have this issue. 

Im windows user and i want to stwich to linux


somebody can help me ?

this is the link : https://photos.app.goo.gl/y3AzatZhA1YyPqbp9


OS Name  Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version  10.0.19042 Build 19042
Other OS Description    Not Available
OS Manufacturer  Microsoft Corporation
System Name  DESKTOP-DJM6TSC
System Manufacturer  ECS
System Model  A320AM4-M3D
System Type  x64-based PC
System SKU 
Processor  AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics, 3600 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date  American Megatrends Inc. 5.14, 7/15/2019
SMBIOS Version  3.2
Embedded Controller Version  255.255
BIOS Mode  UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer  ECS
BaseBoard Product  A320AM4-M3D
BaseBoard Version  1.0
Platform Role  Desktop
Secure Boot State  Off
PCR7 Configuration  Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory  C:\Windows
System Directory  C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device  \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale  United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer  Version = "10.0.19041.488"
User Name  DESKTOP-DJM6TSC\erikl
Time Zone  Argentina Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM)  16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory  13.9 GB
Available Physical Memory  10.2 GB
Total Virtual Memory  16.1 GB
Available Virtual Memory  11.9 GB
Page File Space  2.13 GB
Page File  C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection  Off
Virtualization-based security  Not enabled
Device Encryption Support  Elevation Required to View
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions  Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions  Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware  Yes