during install on another computer (I want dual boot - "Something else") the actual partition sda3 is ntfs formatted. It has 12Gb, about 10gb used.

Looking at gParted in the live iso sda3 is "Recovery image".

Question 1:  I have backups of the Windows 7 data and system on external drive. Do I need to retain this "sda3 NTFS Recovery Image" in order to continue using the Windows 7 partition, or can I safely install LL 4.0 in sda3 ?

Computer is a HP Elitebook.

Assuming I do not need to retain  "recovery image"  ....

...  during install (dry run) when I select dev/sda3 > Change, I get options as per manual, ie    Use as: ext4etc;  Format; mount point: /        I also get SIZE: 12000  with - + 

Question 2:  is this + where I increase the Partition to the size I want, eg 50gb ?

It's well over a year since I did a dual boot install from scratch, I don't remember it being like this.
Thanks for the excellent help I know I'll get shortly.

Is there any need to close private files when going online? Just how secure is the LL installed firewall?

I don't expect Brave to become preinstalled with Linux Lite.  But I would like to see it considered as a Default Browser option. 


I have been using it on my Linux Lite laptop and mobile devices for the past several weeks in lieu of Chrome.  I like how fast it is, the installed adblocker, the fact that it is based on Chromium, and that it was started by the co-founder of Mozilla, the maker of Firefox.  I have been a Chrome user, but the resource usage with Brave Browser running is much lower.  Brave Browser on my mobile phone performs better than the default browsers there.  The only downside I see with Brave so far is that, for now, it does not synchronize bookmarks from my laptop to my mobile device.

Linux Lite 3.8 - No Sound - Speakers work when the Headphones port is selected, but linux then switches back randomly to the Line Out Port (both show as unplugged).

I have stopped the Pulseaudio daemon.

What can I do to stop linux from switching back the Line Out port?
Or, what can I do to make the sound work without "creative solutions"?

Thank you.

PS - I own a Sony Vaio VGN-FS315M, see specs below
https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/sony_vai...ersion.asp

The newest Whiskermenu 2.3.0 has a great new feature that allows you to add additional buttons to the bottom (See screenshot). I have been testing it.

Will keep you posted of any significant developments.

It's just been reported in several places (including Distrowatch) that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS may now offer 10 years of support. What does this mean for the 4x series of Linux Lite, or, for that matter, Linux Mint 19, and quite a few others based upon this version of Ubuntu? Sorry if I am out of place to ask this here.
--Later---
According to a forum, the consensus is that it won't mean anything, really, after all...Just for home servers, possibly, or for paid long-term support. SO I guess this was a bit misleading.  MY APOLOGIES.

I got a irritating problem. When typing my cursor jumps for no reason at all to another place in the text sometimes. This is making a mess of what i am typing. I thought it was a problem wih=th previous laptop but the new one has the same. It doesnt do it all the time. Anyone any idea were to look for an answer to the problem?

Hi again. I have an old webcam which works great while using guvcview.
I have installed the Ivideon server and while trying to add the camera it doesn't find it.
I have read that I need to chown /dev/video0 to the same user:group as the one running Ivideon server.

lsusb gives me:
Bus 002 Device 082: ID 041e:403c Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam Live! Ultra

How do I accomplish this?
Gracias!

I am a new user of Linux Lite [4.0]. I used it around 4 months. My cpu is AMD A4. Suddenly its not login and stuck in initramfs after displaying below msg.

Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
  - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls/dev)
ALERT! UUID=a081b06c-3343-4e6e-9e89-b500ff509502 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!


BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)


Please reply.Thanks in advance.

Where, in the LL3 file system, is the driver for the Network Controller stored? 
Also, what kind of name is it likely to be called?

Using terminal, I get this output when identifying the WiFi card: