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Hi and welcome to linux and mint. An 8 gig usb drive will work at least to start I'm not sure how many apps you would like to have over the ones already installed. unetbootin works for making a usb install but if you still have windows available I'd suggest this it will let you put the latest mint o...

Just saw this thread today. I have to say I'm one of the people nowhere ready for an arch based system, but have to say I'm impressed with what you're doing . Sloshy hopefully before to long I'll be at the point to try an arch install and I love the idea of being able to have the things that make mi...

Since you mention you have windows an alterative to unetbootin is here http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/ the nice thing about this one is it links to mint 9 I think unetbootin only has 7 or 8 as the latest mint as a direct link. I saw that link i another topic in fo...

Not sure if this will help but apparently osx and grub don't like each other.http://blog.larsstrand.org/article.php?story=Triple-Boot-OSX-Ubuntu-Vista If I read this right the easiest way to get things working will be to use the OSX disc to wipe the partitions install OSX then follow the directions ...

I have to agree Clem pretty much has the sense to avoid a name with negative connotations like Katrina. Jason , my grandmother Wilma and her sisters all would gotten a kick out of a linux distro with their name if it was brought to their attention. Must say thought my granny would be more like arch ...

Can't say that I have actually converted anyone but my former roommate dual boots with mint 9 on a persistant usb she needs MS office for school and has limited hard drive space available xp is strictly for school now everything else is mint and her father by extension i guess he picked up an older ...

Hi Dave , Looks like you got some good adive so far and not sure which rosewill dongle you have some work well out the box saw one that need a easy (once you see the directions) You can google your model and find out how well it works with linux. And your son won't need to use your copy of open offi...

mint should run fine on yours. you may also want to try the lxde andxfce versions as well as isadora the main one. although isadora runs nicely with that amount of ram, many minters with similar rigs find the lighter desktops run much faster . Good luck.

Glad to have you here. Had :lol: about "she who must be appeased' commadeering the lappie and the dual- boot sneak. Given she has discovered facebook you might try a dual-boot of peppermint ice one of the developers here at mint Kendall Weaver a great guy came up with peppermint . She would lov...

It would not be the same as installing from the original disc it would be exactly what is on there now assuming no data corruption during the transfers.

Ratface sorry it didn't work out but netflix doesn't work with linux and has no plans to play nice with linux their choice.. As far as embarq I was just able to get to their home page and navigate to the support page. and i'm running mint 9. Now if you're problem with them is that their service tech...

Looks like once again Oracleis doing their best to alienate open source people. With Novell Canonical and Redhat already siding with Libreoffice they do have some backing. What will be interesting to see is which side of the fork IBM decides to go with. I swear it seems Oracle is as anal as Microsof...

Very nice AT If he doesn't have windows he probably has access to a friends. Simpler and more elegant then my awkward solution . Think I'll bookmark it on my lappie for personal reference.

Check these out looks to be a kernel bug either cd-dvd drive related or hdd related if i read the fixes right a kernel change should fix it read carefully before doing anything.https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/543883 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391901 Hope th...

vin i just googled the realtek nic you have and it looks like that has had real problems with linux and win xp too . I hate to say this but your best option might be to get hold of a usb wireless dongle with good linux support or bite the bullet and get a legal copy of windows to put on there. EDIT ...

Remoulder described them well I admit to being a gnome person but have to say KDE is a lot more customizable and more eye candy as well if you like that. Either one of these are very easy to set up in dualboot and should give a pretty good out of the box start. try both live cd's.

Dont think you can do exactly that but you could make a persistant usb copy using ubootnetin by copying the iso into a folder and use ubootnetin to make the thumbdrive copy. and if your machine is running windows there is a windows version of the program that works just as well.

I think another option is use the one in mint repositry if you have the live cd of mint use braseeo to copy the live cd as an iso file it will put it home named brasereo.iso then you should be able to use the use iso image option. I haven't actually tried it since I dont have a thumbdrive laying aro...

That definately sounds like one of the fake antivirus malware popups that are floating around. Some of them will infect a Windows machine just running a mouse over it or clicking on the x button that supposedly closes it. So glad I run Linux

Here are a couple good links vim is an excellent very powerful editor but it can be a pain if your just trying to do some simple things.http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/