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Thanks everyone... I will ask on this thread.
My first question:
Hardware compatibility - I have an HP 15 w/ Celeron N3050 1.6Ghz CPU, 4 GB ram and running Win10 64bit. This notebook is one year old. I'm assuming that this will not present a problem for Mint in a dual boot situation?
My first question:
Hardware compatibility - I have an HP 15 w/ Celeron N3050 1.6Ghz CPU, 4 GB ram and running Win10 64bit. This notebook is one year old. I'm assuming that this will not present a problem for Mint in a dual boot situation?
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Your computer meets the requirements.
Install Windows first as otherwise Windows will overwrite your bootloader and casually not support booting your Mint installation. Mint will support booting both, but you probably want to disable "secure boot" in your BIOS to keep Microsoft's hands off blocking that way too.
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Install Windows first as otherwise Windows will overwrite your bootloader and casually not support booting your Mint installation. Mint will support booting both, but you probably want to disable "secure boot" in your BIOS to keep Microsoft's hands off blocking that way too.
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Thanks... I checked out VMware and virtualbox a bit. Seems a wee bit over this old head for now.Gin&Tonic wrote:Never been a fan of dual boot.
My opinion would be to stick to one and use VMware/virtualbox for the other.
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I installed an HP update for the bios. Something to do with the Intel CPU? I verified the bootloader. It is now set to "legacy support" and "secure boot" is disabled.Alexandra wrote:Your computer meets the requirements.
Install Windows first as otherwise Windows will overwrite your bootloader and casually not support booting your Mint installation. Mint will support booting both, but you probably want to disable "secure boot" in your BIOS to keep Microsoft's hands off blocking that way too.
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I'm running WIN 10 at the moment and it's freezing every 10 minutes. Makes it tough to do some of this stuff. Anyway, thanks to you both and soon I'll be installing MINT...
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And soon you'll enjoy using Linux. It takes a little bit of getting used to but so did the different versions of Windows and M$ Office when they were released. I have Ubuntu on my secondary laptop but don't use it very often - only because I use this primary laptop as my, er, primary one. This one is running w8.1 with Classic Shell - so it's fuck all like W8.1 in appearance and interface experience, it's W7. I nobbled all of the M$ nagware and attempts at forced free "upgrade" to W10 so I'm OK with this one at the moment.salvajeuno wrote:I'm running WIN 10 at the moment and it's freezing every 10 minutes. Makes it tough to do some of this stuff. Anyway, thanks to you both and soon I'll be installing MINT...
Therefore, I don't have the same imperative but I have the latest version of Mint on disk and am contemplating setting up a dual boot or VM on this laptop so I use Linux more often. The reason being is that I am reasonably Windows savvy after using it since v3.11 but am essentially a beginner with Linux.
I really need to become more comfortable with it because I will never use W10. When I come to buy another laptop it may well have W10 on it but I'll remove it. I'll then either install one of the Linux distros or a dual OS with W8.1 and Linux. Fuck Microsoft.
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Very cool. Running Mint from the CD. I've gone through a few steps I didn't need to do ( red alert... senior citizen at the controls ). So far so good... going to play with it from the CD for awhile.
1st thing I have to do is kill the touch pad.
1st thing I have to do is kill the touch pad.
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Question: Linux MINT18 installation procedure
I optimized the C WIN partition and ran the "shrink drive"program. I now have 156GB "unallocated"space. C partition is where WIN is located and is NTFS.
Okay... now the question: should I format the new space for MINT as NTFS, FAT32 or just leave it? Thanks
I optimized the C WIN partition and ran the "shrink drive"program. I now have 156GB "unallocated"space. C partition is where WIN is located and is NTFS.
Okay... now the question: should I format the new space for MINT as NTFS, FAT32 or just leave it? Thanks
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I believe that the usual format for Linux is ext4.
However installing Mint 18 onto your hard drive should take care of the Partitioning & Formatting as it is part of the process..
http://www.tecmint.com/linux-mint-18-in ... ion-guide/
However installing Mint 18 onto your hard drive should take care of the Partitioning & Formatting as it is part of the process..
http://www.tecmint.com/linux-mint-18-in ... ion-guide/
As RIH said, Linux doesn't use FAT32 or NTFS but it can read and write to those filesystems. Linux filesystems include ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS and lately there is the option of running ZFS. If you care about technical details Wikipedia has a comparison chart here, but the summary is basically that ext4 is superior to both NTFS and FAT32 (which for example has a maximum file size of 2GB).
You should be fine with the automatic partition preparation in Mint's installer process. Just make sure you only use the free space and don't overwrite your NTFS partition.
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You should be fine with the automatic partition preparation in Mint's installer process. Just make sure you only use the free space and don't overwrite your NTFS partition.
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RIH... this is the BEST I've seen yet! I have skimmed through a lot of info from "Linux Mint Forums" whew... brain freeze. Muy amable amiga (o)!RIH wrote:I believe that the usual format for Linux is ext4.
However installing Mint 18 onto your hard drive should take care of the Partitioning & Formatting as it is part of the process..
http://www.tecmint.com/linux-mint-18-in ... ion-guide/
As always Alexandra Muchas Gracias Muy Amable!Alexandra wrote:As RIH said, Linux doesn't use FAT32 or NTFS but it can read and write to those filesystems. Linux filesystems include ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS and lately there is the option of running ZFS. If you care about technical details Wikipedia has a comparison chart here, but the summary is basically that ext4 is superior to both NTFS and FAT32 (which for example has a maximum file size of 2GB).
You should be fine with the automatic partition preparation in Mint's installer process. Just make sure you only use the free space and don't overwrite your NTFS partition.
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Okay then, I'm ready to create a dual boot. Yeah
Just to make fun of myself a bit... I inserted the CD into the player while in WIN10. Nothing happened but the windows explorer screen. I searched the files but at last... no EXE ??? DA?... Rebooted, pressed "ESC", selected the CD/DVD boot and magic happened. Just a peek into this old mans brainwashed by MS mind
Appreciate your expertise
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OMLK... live from Linux Mint 18 'Sarah' Cinnamon 64 bit
I guess the old saying "third time is a charm" really is true. First two time everything installed but froze when I hit the restart key. I forgot about my usb mouse... took it out and did the install again. It worked but have to hit the "ESC" key to get into BIOS first. Then to Boot Options.
Select # 3 option ( Notebook hard disk ) and enter. Linux Mint. If I don't use the ESC key, the systems boots into WIN 10.
I'm hoping there is something other than BIOS for booting to Linux. Will look at it later.
I'm getting to old for this... 7 hours from start to finish but I'm a very happy camper
Again... thanks for you help!
I guess the old saying "third time is a charm" really is true. First two time everything installed but froze when I hit the restart key. I forgot about my usb mouse... took it out and did the install again. It worked but have to hit the "ESC" key to get into BIOS first. Then to Boot Options.
Select # 3 option ( Notebook hard disk ) and enter. Linux Mint. If I don't use the ESC key, the systems boots into WIN 10.
I'm hoping there is something other than BIOS for booting to Linux. Will look at it later.
I'm getting to old for this... 7 hours from start to finish but I'm a very happy camper
Again... thanks for you help!
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When installing Mint you should have also (automatically) installed a small bootloader program called Grub.
This gives a start screen option of which operating system on your computer you want to load - with an automatic load of one of the OS after x seconds if you don't select yourself.
I have never had an issue with Grub but I gather that it is possible for it not to work.
I have never tried the instructions in this link, but might be worth you doing.
https://mintguide.org/tools/37-restore- ... ndows.html
The 'Terminal Window' is the black icon with a white surround on the bar at the bottom of the screen - or Terminal from the Menu or Ctrl+Alt+T from the keyboard.
The Sudo command will require you to enter your password. Note that the cursor in the Terminal will NOT move as you enter the password - but it is being entered!!
This gives a start screen option of which operating system on your computer you want to load - with an automatic load of one of the OS after x seconds if you don't select yourself.
I have never had an issue with Grub but I gather that it is possible for it not to work.
I have never tried the instructions in this link, but might be worth you doing.
https://mintguide.org/tools/37-restore- ... ndows.html
The 'Terminal Window' is the black icon with a white surround on the bar at the bottom of the screen - or Terminal from the Menu or Ctrl+Alt+T from the keyboard.
The Sudo command will require you to enter your password. Note that the cursor in the Terminal will NOT move as you enter the password - but it is being entered!!
Thinking about it some more...
You probably have not disabled 'Secure Boot' in BIOS so Windows is still automatically loaded rather than the Grub bootloader..
Try this...
http://acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answer ... ecure-boot
You might then have to 'repair' Grub as in the first post..
You probably have not disabled 'Secure Boot' in BIOS so Windows is still automatically loaded rather than the Grub bootloader..
Try this...
http://acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answer ... ecure-boot
You might then have to 'repair' Grub as in the first post..
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