no terminal

[thenewoc]

Hi

I'm using a new MSI motherboard which came with a limited Linux distro called Winki. The trouble is it doesn't appear to have terminal installed. I have a USB Wireless LAN Adapter which I have a Linux driver for but without terminal it seems my hands are tied behind my back

Just wondered if someone more in the know with Linux knows a way to add terminal or whether there is a shortcut key combo to bring up terminal if its just been removed from menus rather than stripped out of the OS all together?

 

[thenewoc]

Thanks, I tried that but unfortunately it just gave me a blank grey screen.

 

[thenewoc]

It is best to install it to a separate partition, otherwise if you install it on your system partition it prevents you using the HDD backup to make an image of the partition where Winki is installed. That was the first pitfall to avoid. I agree with you that it is pretty much pointless for the fast boot function but with it being the backbone to some of the options in the BIOS it would be nice for it to be set up in the way it was intended so its available to use. I think perhaps its most useful feature is the HDD imaging as I see W8 doesn't have the full drive image option as W7 had. I prefer to use a native app if its part of the OS or components in my build rather than going off piste. It also has the strange oddity that it doesn't work if the controller is set to RAID. In this case it means having it installed on a USB flash drive otherwise I would have it on a small HDD partition. Anyways I'm still stuck at the moment as I can't get terminal on it, which I think is the only way of getting my Linux driver for my wireless adapter onto it. Might send MSI technical a support ticket and see what they say. Bet they hardly get any enquiries on the matter, I'm surprised they have kept it interwoven into the BIOS options TBH.