How to Install a second SSD with Linux on it?
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Hahaha
So I'm writing this message on my Windows OS! Just wanted to make sure it still worked, haha. Both OS's work, this is so cool! I know for some of you, it's no big deal, but for me, this is a big step. Glad I stuck with it and got it to work. Thanks again to everyone for the help.
This is why I love Puppy's modified Grub4DOS. Apart from the first few months with Puppy, when I was still finding my feet, for most of the last decade I've much preferred editing the 'menu.lst' file by hand.....rather than re-running the Grub4DOS config tool every time (which gets boring very, VERY fast).
And the config tool always lists things in the order it finds them...
Whichever Puppy I want to set as the "default one", I just move it to the top of the list.....and save it. Bob's yr uncle, that one then always boots automatically.
Mike.
Yo Lighthouse
So that was you who hacked my computer about 15 years ago and took that screenshot!
I will be watching you!
Vektor
So that was you who hacked my computer about 15 years ago and took that screenshot!
I will be watching you!
Vektor
Condobloke
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@SuperWookie68
Just to have your Firewall in place, you can run in Terminal.....
Just to have your Firewall in place, you can run in Terminal.....
Code:
sudo ufw enable
@Lighthouse , no offence, but start a separate thread to ask, or Google it.
I will be going through this thread a little later to clean it up.
TIA for keeping this on topic.
Wizard
I will be going through this thread a little later to clean it up.
TIA for keeping this on topic.
Wizard
None needed, but appreciated.
OP
SuperWookie68
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Thank you! Much appreciated
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SuperWookie68
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Hey guys, so out of the frying pan and into the fire as they say. hahaha. I am just not having great luck so far with Linux and had a bad problem happen last night.
First off, I haven't had very much time yet to try and work on these fixes people are suggesting to get the 2.4Ghz WiFi to work (for some reason Kubuntu and Ubuntu ONLY will connect to my 5Ghz WiFi and not the 2.4Ghz. Even though the 5 barely reaches my computer upstairs from the router that is downstairs).
Same with setting up the computer so I can access and send files back and fourth between the Windows drive and my Linux drive. I'll get to those this two problems later this week/weekend and hopefully everyone's responses and help will work. Fingers crossed.
But now I have a new problem. Kubuntu is gone from my drive now! I realized over the last few days at work doing more and more research, that I think I want to use Gnome 46 as my DE. It just looks, feels and acts so much more like Mac OS's (which I know, love, am used to and much prefer over a windows look/feel computer), while Kubuntu looks and feels a lot more like Windows. And since I'm switching to Linux mostly for the ability to edit and make the DE look and feel how I want, I started to realize that Gnome is what I want. I don't dislike Kubuntu or anything and still want to keep it as my OS, but just put Gnome DE on top of it, like everyone said I could do.
So long story shorter, I found this site https://snapcraft.io/install/gnome-46-2404/kubuntu. And it made it all seem SOOO easy. Just open my terminal and type in sudo snap install gnome-46-2404 and voila... you should have Gnome 46 DE on top of Kubuntu. But that did not happen. I rebooted, looked at all the buttons and options on the login password screen, and there is NO WAY to chose Gnome as my Desktop. It's not there!? I even tried installing this Snapd thing through the terminal (which again, I have no idea what it even is or what it does), and the terminal comes back and says I already have it. So I then realized that Ubuntu has Gnome as it's DE, so I put my Ubuntu ISO onto my USB, rebooted the computer, loaded the Ventoy formatted USB with Ubuntu on it and installed it. Annnnnnnnnnnnnd Kubuntu is gone now Ubuntu is in it's place. So that's awesome, hahaha. But hey, silver lining is, Ubuntu desktop shows my two drives on the dock on the left side of the screen, so it's not all bad, right? Hahahahaha
But seriously, HOW did this happen? I thought everyone said I can just install another distro or DE and then chose from whichever one I want at the Log In screen? I've seen lots of videos of people doing it. Booting up to this screen, then choosing in the bottom right corner usually, from any DE or Distro you have loaded onto the drive. It's This screen:
So my new question is, is Kubuntu gone? If it is, I guess I'm going to have to reinstall it. And then HOW do I install Gnome 46 DE on top of my Kubuntu distro/OS? I followed that webpages "super simple" instructions and NOTHING happened. And it's not some rando website, it's Canonical's own website! And then after I figure that all out, I have more questions, but we'll just deal with these one at a time.
This is so frustrating and so far, Linux has not been kind, easy or fun to use. I had to calm myself down last night after I lost Kubuntu (thank god I hadn't already started doing lots of customization or putting any important info on it). I realized that this isn't going to be easy the whole time. Errors and mistakes might be made. That It's a totally different way of computing, and I'm going to have to learn a LOT of new things. And that is going to be frustrating, difficult and at times make me just want to quit. But I don't want to do that. I want this to work. So I'm going to get back at it later this week and weekend when I have more time (I'm posting all these questions I have and doing "research" on Linux at work, where I can't work on my own computer) and hopefully figure all these problems out.
Thanks everyone
First off, I haven't had very much time yet to try and work on these fixes people are suggesting to get the 2.4Ghz WiFi to work (for some reason Kubuntu and Ubuntu ONLY will connect to my 5Ghz WiFi and not the 2.4Ghz. Even though the 5 barely reaches my computer upstairs from the router that is downstairs).
Same with setting up the computer so I can access and send files back and fourth between the Windows drive and my Linux drive. I'll get to those this two problems later this week/weekend and hopefully everyone's responses and help will work. Fingers crossed.
But now I have a new problem. Kubuntu is gone from my drive now! I realized over the last few days at work doing more and more research, that I think I want to use Gnome 46 as my DE. It just looks, feels and acts so much more like Mac OS's (which I know, love, am used to and much prefer over a windows look/feel computer), while Kubuntu looks and feels a lot more like Windows. And since I'm switching to Linux mostly for the ability to edit and make the DE look and feel how I want, I started to realize that Gnome is what I want. I don't dislike Kubuntu or anything and still want to keep it as my OS, but just put Gnome DE on top of it, like everyone said I could do.
So long story shorter, I found this site https://snapcraft.io/install/gnome-46-2404/kubuntu. And it made it all seem SOOO easy. Just open my terminal and type in sudo snap install gnome-46-2404 and voila... you should have Gnome 46 DE on top of Kubuntu. But that did not happen. I rebooted, looked at all the buttons and options on the login password screen, and there is NO WAY to chose Gnome as my Desktop. It's not there!? I even tried installing this Snapd thing through the terminal (which again, I have no idea what it even is or what it does), and the terminal comes back and says I already have it. So I then realized that Ubuntu has Gnome as it's DE, so I put my Ubuntu ISO onto my USB, rebooted the computer, loaded the Ventoy formatted USB with Ubuntu on it and installed it. Annnnnnnnnnnnnd Kubuntu is gone now
Ubuntu is in it's place. So that's awesome, hahaha. But hey, silver lining is, Ubuntu desktop shows my two drives on the dock on the left side of the screen, so it's not all bad, right? HahahahahaBut seriously, HOW did this happen? I thought everyone said I can just install another distro or DE and then chose from whichever one I want at the Log In screen? I've seen lots of videos of people doing it. Booting up to this screen, then choosing in the bottom right corner usually, from any DE or Distro you have loaded onto the drive. It's This screen:
So my new question is, is Kubuntu gone? If it is, I guess I'm going to have to reinstall it. And then HOW do I install Gnome 46 DE on top of my Kubuntu distro/OS? I followed that webpages "super simple" instructions and NOTHING happened. And it's not some rando website, it's Canonical's own website! And then after I figure that all out, I have more questions, but we'll just deal with these one at a time.
This is so frustrating and so far, Linux has not been kind, easy or fun to use. I had to calm myself down last night after I lost Kubuntu (thank god I hadn't already started doing lots of customization or putting any important info on it). I realized that this isn't going to be easy the whole time. Errors and mistakes might be made. That It's a totally different way of computing, and I'm going to have to learn a LOT of new things. And that is going to be frustrating, difficult and at times make me just want to quit. But I don't want to do that. I want this to work. So I'm going to get back at it later this week and weekend when I have more time (I'm posting all these questions I have and doing "research" on Linux at work, where I can't work on my own computer) and hopefully figure all these problems out.
Thanks everyone
Two pages and not a single mention of this feature below, why??
[ https:// download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_b550-vision-d-p_1001_e.pdf ]
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« AMI UEFI BIOS »
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« Boot Option Priorities
Specifies the overall boot order from the available devices. Removable storage devices that support GPT format will be prefixed with "UEFI:" string on the boot device list. To boot from an operating system that supports GPT partitioning, select the device prefixed with "UEFI:" string.
Or if you want to install an operating system that supports GPT partitioning such as Windows 10 64-bit, select the optical drive that contains the Windows 10 64-bit installation disc and is prefixed with "UEFI:" string. »
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« CSM Support
Enables or disables UEFI CSM (Compatibility Support Module) to support a legacy PC boot process.
Disabled Disables UEFI CSM and supports UEFI BIOS boot process only.
Enabled Enables UEFI CSM. (Default)
...
Storage Boot Option Control
Allows you to select whether to enable the UEFI or legacy option ROM for the storage device controller.
Disabled Disables option ROM.
UEFI Only Enables UEFI option ROM only. (Default)
Legacy Only Enables legacy option ROM only.
This item is configurable only when CSM Support is set to Enabled.
Other PCI Device ROM Priority
Allows you to select whether to enable the UEFI or Legacy option ROM for the PCI device controller other
than the LAN, storage device, and graphics controllers.
Disabled Disables option ROM.
UEFI Only Enables UEFI option ROM only. (Default)
Legacy Only Enables legacy option ROM only.
This item is configurable only when CSM Support is set to Enabled. »
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« C. UEFI RAID Configuration
Steps:
...
(Note) An M.2 PCIe SSD cannot be used to set up a RAID set either with an M.2 SATA SSD or a SATA hard drive. »
[ https:// download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_b550-vision-d-p_1001_e.pdf ]
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« AMI UEFI BIOS »
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« Boot Option Priorities
Specifies the overall boot order from the available devices. Removable storage devices that support GPT format will be prefixed with "UEFI:" string on the boot device list. To boot from an operating system that supports GPT partitioning, select the device prefixed with "UEFI:" string.
Or if you want to install an operating system that supports GPT partitioning such as Windows 10 64-bit, select the optical drive that contains the Windows 10 64-bit installation disc and is prefixed with "UEFI:" string. »
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« CSM Support
Enables or disables UEFI CSM (Compatibility Support Module) to support a legacy PC boot process.
Disabled Disables UEFI CSM and supports UEFI BIOS boot process only.
Enabled Enables UEFI CSM. (Default)
...
Storage Boot Option Control
Allows you to select whether to enable the UEFI or legacy option ROM for the storage device controller.
Disabled Disables option ROM.
UEFI Only Enables UEFI option ROM only. (Default)
Legacy Only Enables legacy option ROM only.
This item is configurable only when CSM Support is set to Enabled.
Other PCI Device ROM Priority
Allows you to select whether to enable the UEFI or Legacy option ROM for the PCI device controller other
than the LAN, storage device, and graphics controllers.
Disabled Disables option ROM.
UEFI Only Enables UEFI option ROM only. (Default)
Legacy Only Enables legacy option ROM only.
This item is configurable only when CSM Support is set to Enabled. »
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« C. UEFI RAID Configuration
Steps:
...
(Note) An M.2 PCIe SSD cannot be used to set up a RAID set either with an M.2 SATA SSD or a SATA hard drive. »
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SuperWookie68
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Hahaha, say what?! You might as well be speaking Tugalog or Piraha. Do you have a way of translating any of that into English?
