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#1

Installation / Any known problem installing S...

Last post by paul74 - February 05, 2026, 02:36:29 PM

Hello,

I have  a Toshiba Satellite Pro S500-10D (originally delivered with Windows 7), upgrated to 8 GB RAM and 240 GB SSD,   running SparkyLinux 7.8 for a while without any problem.
As i had some problems to upgrade to SparkyLinux 8 via usual process, I decided to install SparkyLinux 8.1.

Installation process rans fine. Without any message.


But as I restart the PC, I get the message "no system disk".

I start another Linux system contained on RescueZilla USB key to try to determine the source of the problem.
I see that the mount point specified for SSD is "/media/Ubuntu" ???????

To be sure my SSD is OK, I restarted SparkyLinux 7 preiously saved onto external disk. Everything working fine !

I also tried to install SparkyLinux 9 and get same problem.

Forgotten something ?
No legacy support anymore ??

Thanks in advance for your ideas and comments.
Have a nice day.

#2

System upgrading / Re: System update required or ...

Last post by paul74 - February 04, 2026, 09:45:18 AM

Hello !
Sorry for the delay as I just this topic today.

I upgraded simply by using Synaptic update all process an it's working fine.

Today I am running 7.8

#3

Sparky applications / Re: Empty Firefox-Sparky Packa...

Last post by Mémé - February 02, 2026, 06:03:39 PM

OF COURSE, I should have say Hi before everything!!
My apologies!

#4

Sparky applications / Empty Firefox-Sparky Package

Last post by Mémé - February 02, 2026, 05:55:45 PM

While Pavroo said "firefox-sparky" was replaced by "firefox-latest", it seems not to be my case...
"firefox-sparky (147.0.2~repack0)" has been updated to "firefox-sparky (147.0.2~repack2)",
BUT this package is empty, and Firefox-Sparky disappears.
Previous package (147.0.2~repack0) can't be reinstalled, neither "firefox-latest", that can't be found.
Any solution?
Maybe update the "147.0.2~repack2" package?
Thank you in advance!

#5

Applications / Firefox latest

Last post by pavroo - January 29, 2026, 10:33:33 PM

The 'firefox-sparky' package changed its name to 'firefox-latest'.

It uses new profile so make sure you have backup of your settings to restore it after installing new package.

#6

General discussion / Re: Good reviews && Bad review...

Last post by AxL - January 12, 2026, 10:24:09 PM

  By the way, I forgot to comment that I have searched the internet (using DDG or StartPage) for the problem described by the individual from DistroWatch. And I have found absolutely NOTHING about it.

 And there is also no report (of this matter) here, on the SparkyLinux forums.
 
So, I think that this lad's problem, seems to be the typical PICNIC.





Cheers !! 

[excellent review]

#7

General discussion / Good reviews && Bad reviews .....

Last post by AxL - January 12, 2026, 06:55:29 PM

Good times && Bad times ....


Curiously, almost on the same dates. I have been able to read an excellent review of SparkyLinux, as well as another totally disastrous review.

The first of them was published on January 1 (with reference to his article of last July tenth, 2025). A concise, serious, detailed and exhaustive review.
 And, where he finally comments that using SparkyLinux was an almost perfect experience.

And OTOH, this one made by Jesse Smith of DistroWatch (using an outdated version - SparkyLinux 2025.09 running CDE) where he ends by saying that the newly installed distribution cannot boot.

Specifically, it ends with this paragraph:

[....] 
After a few minutes of working, Calamares reported it had successfully completed the installation and offered to restart the computer. Unfortunately, the freshly installed distribution failed to boot. In fact, a closer look at the disk indicated a boot loader had not been set up, rendering the machine unbootable.

Anyway.... for tastes, colors. 






Cheers !! 

#8

Installation / Re: boot from iso can't find w...

Last post by geop - December 31, 2025, 10:53:53 PM

OP here once again. No resolution on the Sparky wifi issue, but Debian-testing is now working. I went back to the login screen and noted that it was set to XFCE  under Wayland, which I didn't even know was a thing yet. I switched it to plain vanilla XFCE and all is good.

#9

Installation / Re: boot from iso can't find w...

Last post by geop - December 30, 2025, 06:16:30 PM

OP here. I decided to install the latest weekly Debian-testing to see if the same problem occurred.

The installer, which is a netinst type and so needs a network, did NOT find my wifi device, but did give me a list of devices to install drivers for. I picked the mt7921e, the one mentioned in the Sparky error message, and the installer was then happy, and I was able to connect to wifi and continue the install.

(Once I booted to Debian-testing and logged-in, I just got a black screen, but that's a problem for a different forum. Since this was just supposed to be a fun side-experiment, I may just bail on the whole thing ... :-(  )

#10

Installation / Re: boot from iso can't find w...

Last post by geop - December 29, 2025, 04:57:27 AM

Many thanks for the suggestion, but I've now tried that both without and with sudo, and in each case, it returned immediately to the terminal prompt with no output. The network icon popup still says "No network devices available".

I saw nothing in journalctl either.

Sorry I didn't reply more quickly, but I didn't see your reply until now because I failed to notice I had to explicitly request alerts. Fixed now.