You’re very welcome for the tutorial, I’m glad you found it useful
Tramlink is referring to the Firefox “USER” files, such as the bookmark database, and any custom settings such as skins for each user on the system … these will be found at:- ~/.mozilla/firefox
(where ~ is your home directory) … and as he says it’s a hidden directory.
For the actual firefox (8.0) application …
If you installed Firefox through the Synaptic package manager (as in the tutorial), the firefox binary executable will be in something like:- /usr/lib/firefox-8.0
There will also be a symlink at /usr/bin/firefox that points to /usr/lib/firefox-8.0/firefox.sh
You don’t really need to bother with these, the update manager will keep them up to date as/when they are updated in the repo’s
If you’re not currently on Firefox 8 (dunno if 9 is out yet, since I’m still offline awaiting a new phone line), try running:
Just to say the instructions were superb and greatly appreciated. would never have been able to do this myself. Much more impressed by Linux now that it seems easier to work with and update. Many thanks
First thanks for this tutorial, I’ve just managed to rescue my Mum’s AA1 because of this. Peppermint looks an awful lot better to me than linpus in terms of useability and updating etc. I initially had the same problem with the usb stick not booting but it definitely appears to be an issue with the stick itself as I used a different stick (newer and larger) on the same win 7 machine and voila no more problems. I was on firefox 2 with linpus, which no longer allowed hotmail to send emails. I’m now on firefox 10 with skype, hotmail and facebook (therefore Mother) all happy. I formatted the old stick (slow) and tested it for errors (none reported) but it would not work. It was a generic 1gb by the way and the working one is a sandisk cruzer micro 4gb which I previously used for the linpus restore. I remember reading then that you should not try a 1gb for that either. I don’t know if it’s a size or quality issue but definitely try a different stick. Two other things of note, 1st when I tried the old stick after f12 it came up as USB FDD not USB HDD like the second stick. I don’t know if this gives you any clues. 2nd The wireless was already set to automatically connect so I didn’t have to alter that.
The only thing that’s different is a message on boot saying an application wants access to the keyring default but it is locked and I have to re-enter the password each time before it will boot. Other than that, thankyou thankyou thankyou
You’re welcome, I’m glad you’re enjoying Peppermint as much as i am
You’re right, it seems to be that the AA1 just doesn’t like certain USB sticks … I hadn’t noticed the FDD (rather than HDD) listing but it’s certainly something to look out for … thanks for the info.
hi mark
i have just tried to get my card reader to work, think i followed your instructions carefully enough but if not i guess i can run through them again. i have put a sd card in the reader with some photos on, just wondering if the card reader automatically “runs” or i have to search for it? if so where do i find it?
i hope if i didnt quite get your instructions correct its possible to simply input them again?
thanks, john
mark, its working, think maybe when i tried it earlier i had forgot to reboot first! sorry for jumping the gun! while i’m here is there a way to go straight to an email of my choice, similar to the limpus lite which had a mail icon on the desktop? i see gmail is in the menu just wondering if i could set up any email provider and have it sitting on the desktop?
cheers, john
So what does the PC do if told to boot from the card ?
Sounds like (obviously) that drivers are being loaded by Linux … but I can’t see how that could help as you’d need to load GRUB from the card
I’m not sure about this, but I think the AA1 can boot from one of its card readers, but NOT the one that needs the GRUB edits … if yours is like that one, that could explain your issue … but it’s not good news.
Technically you could probably use a SuperGrub disk to boot the card, but you’d need SuperGrub on a floppy disk, or CD … which doesn’t really help.
Unless your laptop has a floppy drive and you have some floppies … you’re gonna need some CDR’s or a working USB stick
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Technically, I suppose it may be possible to install SuperGrub (overwriting GRUB) on the hard drive to boot the SDcard, but even if it’s possible, if you get it wrong, you could easily end up with an unbootable system … so not something I’d try without a LiveCD/USB.
I think adding the .7zip package in synaptic should be part of the “needed” programs to install in the OP. It would also show another way to install applications/packages as well. I say .7zip because they are amongst others like .rar, .tar.gz & .tar.bz very high compression archivers, but of course the support for .7zip’s needs to be added from synaptic.
a) I’m sure I posted somewhere on this forum that (in a mini test I ran) 7zip doesn’t seem to be any faster, or compress more than tar.gz
b) I already covered installing stuff from Synaptic (which you obviously didn’t read as it covered installing lubuntu-restricted-extras ) in Stage 9 of the tutorial.
But if anyone wants 7zip … open a terminal and run:
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
The archive manager will now be able to pack/unpack .7z files.
I made the Pepperment2 stick w Linux Live on WIndows XP on a 4gb stick- MD5 sum matched orig file- all seemed to go well, but it hangs on boot w boot option 2- long grey screen (USB device, and on 3rd PCI network, got an error message). Does loading of that involve long no HD light operation? Seem to remember that 3: PCI network was the correct option for a USB stick boot from Linpus OS reload.
Can I check the MD5 sum from the installed files on bootable stick? Is another USB Creator more reliable?
NEW TOPIC: I can’t even search in the file manager. Know installation instructions for a decent file manager for Linpus (total Commander?)?
With the AA1 switched OFF … plug the USB stick in … turn on the AA1, and immediately start stabbing the F12 key, you should be presented with a boot device selection screen.
Yeah, did all that- think it’s “USB device”, but just get an interminable grey screen without any apparent activity. Does a normal installation DO that, or are there immediate or obvious messages
? This is a LIVE USB, right, so should work on anything that boots USB? I’ll try it on something else- maybe my re-installation isn’t complete, since some Audiocity installation didn’t go through.
