Installing Mint - the screen cast videos.

[usbtux]

Screen cast tutorials http://www.youtube.com/user/USBTux?feature=watch

Although specifically recorded using mint these work on any Ubuntu based distro.

http://youtu.be/UuL1NkXI7FQ how to setup mint using GPARTED

http://youtu.be/kBrRL6iG0NM using the installer (ubiquity) after setting up your partitions. Or installing over an existing install partitions.

http://youtu.be/gVCfeFOxGLQ External install
Following this screencast to install to any harddrive, internal or external or even a flash drive, it just gives specifics for external. Obviously just change the locations as required, special notice should be made to "Device for boot loader installation:" We want to ensure the boot loader is written to the correct disk.

http://youtu.be/pq2bsTh_dDs How to use unetbootin to make a liveusb

How to dualboot Windows and Linux using a simple install. http://youtu.be/lzXZpEWTApc

How to dualboot Windows and Linux using a manual install http://youtu.be/GlEVQqFtcuM

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How to dualboot Windows and Linux using a manual install http://youtu.be/GlEVQqFtcuM

Hello, your videos are awesome! Congratulations for your effort and your contribution.
How does this video above differentiates if instead of Windows XP, I have Windows 8 pre-installed. When double clicking on Linux Mint Installation I get some extra partitions (150MB , 1MB etc.).
Are they of any use or I can just delete them and proceed with the tutorial according to your video, or need I do something else?

Thanks in advance!

[usbtux]

Thanks for the complements. I have no experience of windows 8. You need to post/search on the install & Boot section. Windows 8 machines come preloaded with trouble built in for linux, with efi /bios booting.

Basically I think you need to switch to legacy = bios booting which will allow you to install grub. The install should be the same as the windows7 install but as I said - You need to post/search on the install & Boot section.


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