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| Thread ID: 137686 | 2014-08-07 10:47:00 | Quick Linux question, or not. | ianhnz (4263) | Press F1 |
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| 1381128 | 2014-08-08 01:57:00 | Yesterday, I thought I'd have a play arround when wife out and 2 things stood out. First was trying to set up printer. It finds it, Canon Mf2260 and says downloads drivers. I try to do a test print and says, can't find printer. So I does it again and same result. The second was I have all my documents on a seperate drive. Go into word processor and finds them. Good. Go in again latter and have to search for them, again. Just not sure if it's worth the hassell and frustration. There was a 3rd, but lost it now. I try and remember and let you's know. So you don't like the unexpected difficulty of stuff you are not familiar with, fair enough. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1381129 | 2014-08-08 02:02:00 | Whats this Grub? I had a look at website, but still non the wiser???? Grub - Grand Unified Bootloader - the bootloader you installed when installing Linux Mint :). |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1381130 | 2014-08-08 02:19:00 | Grub is a bootloader which allows Linux (and many other things) to boot. It has to be installed when you install Linux, as the Windows bootloaders can only handle Windows and DOS (of course) Even if you do not have Linux installed, you can use Grub as a bootloader for Windows if you like, but it would be a bit pointless. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1381131 | 2014-08-08 03:11:00 | So you don't like the unexpected difficulty of stuff you are not familiar with, fair enough. I started off, last century, with dos, 6.22. Then Windows 3.00, 3.1 & 3.11, Windows 98SE, XP and finally Vista. I know that Linux is gona be a massive learning curve, but with my health, I’m sure I’m really up to it. What I really need is a mate that can come around and help me, with the hands on stuff. |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1381132 | 2014-08-08 03:13:00 | What I do in this case is boot to windows, open an elevated command prompt and then use bootrec to restore the windows bootloader, this is preferable to Nicks' suggestion, it is faster to boot as it no longer has to boot to grub first. pcsupport.about.com This is my next project, but not today. Have the link, on my desktop, all ready to go.... |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1381133 | 2014-08-08 04:46:00 | I started off, last century, with dos, 6.22. Then Windows 3.00, 3.1 & 3.11, Windows 98SE, XP and finally Vista. I know that Linux is gona be a massive learning curve, but with my health, I’m sure I’m really up to it. What I really need is a mate that can come around and help me, with the hands on stuff. That does make the learning process a lot less frustrating. I understand that Linux Mint is one of the more user friendly Linux distros to set up. www.wikihow.com |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1381134 | 2014-08-08 06:26:00 | That does make the learning process a lot less frustrating. I understand that Linux Mint is one of the more user friendly Linux distros to set up. www.wikihow.com Yes it was fairly easy to get it running. Been using it on a Netbook, for a little while, but could get the printer working with that, either |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1381135 | 2014-08-08 06:45:00 | For drivers, go support-au.canon.com.au Download button near the end of page, will hopefully do the trick |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1381136 | 2014-08-08 07:08:00 | And install the drivers for the printer first (dont connect the printer) until the install tells you too | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1381137 | 2014-08-08 12:50:00 | I have tried quite a number of Linux distros and I also had problems with the Printer not working correctly, I found that this helped: To start Printer In Terminal: sudo service cups restart Always made the Printer work on my Zorin instal and I think the PCOSLinux instal as well. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
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