Recent content by Deckwench

CptCharis, be my guest!

The forum accepted my password today! Yay! I am busy getting a runabout (it's a Tinny, Wiz) seaworthy, so have only played with Ubuntu long enough to determine that it will take Word and Excel docos without stepping on them overmuch, and that Excel and Word will read the OfficeLibre equivalents...

Wiz, I'm using Chrome, and it's not a browser-will-not-save my password issue; Linux.org does not accept the password I'm using. Every time I log in it rejects the password that's saved, then entered manually, so I do a Forgot Password request. When I get the Linux link I reenter the SAME...

Thanks, atanere! The Toshiba's in another room happily installing away. This time I held F2 down immediately after punching the start button and it dropped me into Setup. I selected USB, then F10 to exit. Then I punched F12 and hit enter on the usb option, which had not saved and it booted...

IS UBUNTU!

Well look at that. So it's there but the Toshiba won't boot from it. Should I be moving files around or renaming? I could not make heads or tails out of burning with Rufus. I'm flashing another usb on Etcher to see if it comes up differently. Wiz I will attempt the Windows fix if the bugger...

My burned USB doesn't look much like yours. I'll try it again on the other app listed above.

BTW, the purpose of this exercise is to see if I can find a word processor and spread sheet that my husband actually likes. He never liked Office and thought a Chromebook would be better. Now he's got a computer he hates that I don't grok at all.

I DLed Etcher and burned Ubuntu to the thumbdrive, but it now shows efi > boot > two tiny files. Can that possibly be correct? The Toshiba is still not booting off of if after I select it from Setup-- though I have not yet tried all the usb ports Worse, the Bios no longer gives me Setup...

Oh, and cuz the Wizard sorta asked, my avatar is an enhanced version of the TRS-80 that was my first computer in 1981-- but with a tape deck rather than floppies.

I'm finally dipping my toe into the ocean that is Linux, but things are not going swimmingly. Here's what's happening: I have an eight year old Toshiba Satellite that's been in a closet for a year or two and I want to transform it into a Linux only machine. I DLed...

Not much in the way of traffic and no responses to my question at "Installation of ubuntu." Is that because there are no good solutions other than goosing the hardware, or because local tribal custom assumes I will post a totally new question in a brand new thread? Thanks

I mess about with boats and lighthouses whenever possible. I've also messed about with computers since 1968.