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Hello, Droidriven. As Builduntu is based on Xubuntu 14.04 64-bit (Ubuntu with xfce desktop), installing it next to Windows 7 in order to dual boot, is done in the same way as you would install + Xubuntu 14.04 64-bit or + Linux Mint 17.x 64-bit xfce So nothing which would be new to you. Good luck, K...

I have a Builduntu.iso designed for compiling android development that I want to install in dual boot with Windows 10 on my 1TB laptop. I'm using it in VM on 16GB RAM right now and would rather give dual boot a try so I can install other packages and updates. I've installed Linux Miint on drives by ...

I have an older system that I put a hand me down geforce 210 graphics card in, I have Linux mint 17.1 on it, I'm using an HDTV as a monitor, I connected the Linux system via HDMI from the card and my windows system via VGA, the Linux system was connected via VGA before I added the card, the display ...

My reason for asking was for this system I'm repairing and partly for myself because I use Linux mint for lots of things involving android devices and I'm always having to enter my password, a little more convenience in operation would be nice but I'm not willing to kill security to do it, I'm cons...

the owner isn't an in depth user so most of the complicated stuff in Linux will probably never be encountered by them. My reasons for my question was to make it less of a hassle for them to use the system Now you are at a quite different point than in your original post, where you wrote: I frequent...

I'm OK with having a secure system, but why have it so tightly bound when there is only one person that uses the system? I installed Linux because the the owner somehow wiped the OS out. It had windows XP and since it is no longer supported and they didn't want to pay for a Windows product key and ...

If you wish to use an insecure operating system, why did you install Linux in the first place? :shock: I don't think many people here will want to help you with ruining the fine security of Linux Mint.... I'm OK with having a secure system, but why have it so tightly bound when there is only one pe...

Can the aggravating password when opening programs and making changes be disabled? I have the login password disabled and the password when waking disabled, now I'd like to disable the prompt everytime I open system programs. I frequently use them and I'm tired of having to enter the password at eve...

By ext hard drive do you mean ext4 or external hard drive? Not sure why you would want to use an external hard drive to boot, so lets assume you want to partition your internal hard drive for linux and windows use. This can be done and dual booting is a common activity. Generally speaking, you prob...

I'm in the process of reinstalling Linux on my ext hard drive, I want to leave half of the drive for windows, after I create my Linux partitions during manual install, can't I make the rest of the drive a partition in fat32 and use it for windows?

I have Linux mint 17.1 installed on external USB drive but now its not going to grub boot menu. When I try to examine the drive in gparted it gives me a I/O read error for my Linux partition. I'm trying to just reinstall grub2 to see if this is my problem but when following some instructions I found...

I'm in the same situation...I was able to check my boot file through a disk load and it shows that it is totally empty! What's going on and how do I fix it? Yeah, my external USB drive is 2TB and I've got it divided into two main partitions, one for windows backup and storage and the other for Linu...

I installed Linux mint 17.1 on an external USB drive and have been booting from it with no issues for months. I shut down last night and now its not booting, I made no changes to anything so I don't know why this is happening. When it gets to where grub would ask if I wanted to boot Linux or windows...

Hi, Droidriven: I echo others' thoughts; Xfce is the lightest, official desktop environment. Mate would be the next, followed by Cinnamon, then KDE. I know if you are stuck with older hardware, you may be limited; however, I would try my best not to use an unsupported version of anything. I do not ...

if you do stay with Linux Mint, then maybe move to a lighter Enviroment, - such as XFCE. I've ran across reviews saying that Xfce was a good replacement on old PC with windows XP, I'm not sure how light I want to go though, I wont be using that system very much but some of the things I will be doin...

You can still download Mint 9 from the torrent on this Mint site http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06074. The normal http mirror has been taken down but the torrent still works so you can obtain a fresh ISO file. Good luck. PS My10 year old desktop runs Mint 13 really well also LMDE. Yeah, I think go ...

Hi, Droiddriven: If you would like to stick with Linux Mint and if at all possible, give these newer versions a try: http://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php I would try Version 17.1; then, if that doesn't work, give Version 13 a whirl. Good luck! Yes I want to stick to Linux mint, I have Rebecca ...

- if it stalled during the boot, then that is probably a video related issue. you may need to run it in compatibility mode. - which brings in the 2nd point - as Mint 9 is seriously old now, there will be little or no support for it. if you can get it to run, as is, then the install will work fine, ...

I just installed mint 9 on a 10 year old desktop that still runs fine but needed a clean install because the windows XP that was on it was going to crap, I had an old Linux mint 9 install disk so I figured I'd install it since it is such a small and lightweight OS, I kept having issues with the inst...

testing post only It was probably hanging because it hadn't finished getting your updates setup, when you do updates in windows it actually installs them when you power down, and when you rebbot they have to work through their processes to be initialized, if you were being impatient and trying to r...