Installing Mint on a new drive

[Python]

Hi to everyone.

I have been trying out Mint in the Live View after booting from the dvd.

I am now thinking of installing it on a main system that currently has Win 10 installed.
I was going to disconnect the Win 10 drive and put in a new drive and install mint onto that, but, having researching the best way to install I always come across the 'disable secure boot'.
Do I really need to do this, the system is only 2 years old:-
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4690K (3.5GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® Z97-P: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs

While reading the MB user Guide I came across this:-
Secure Boot
Windows UEFI Mode :- Only select this when booting on Windows UEFI mode or other Microsoft Secure Boot compliant OS.

Does this mean I have to disable Secure Boot to install Mint?

Thanks in advance with any help.

jj

[deepakdeshp]

It's better to disable secure boot.
As you aren't planning dual boot, please see the installation process.
https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/fossbyte ... guide/amp/

[JerryF]

I see that this is your first post.

Welcome to the forums!

[Flemur]

I am now thinking of installing it on a main system that currently has Win 10 installed.
I was going to disconnect the Win 10 drive and put in a new drive and install mint onto that, but, having researching the best way to install I always come across the 'disable secure boot'.
...
Does this mean I have to disable Secure Boot to install Mint?

Are installing linux to a separate physical disk from windows? And choose which OS to boot by selecting the boot device?

[Python]

I see that this is your first post.

Welcome to the forums!

Thankyou.

[Python]

It's better to disable secure boot.
As you aren't planning dual boot, please see the installation process.
https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/fossbyte ... guide/amp/

Thank you, I will check the link out.

[Python]

Is this what I have to do to be able to install Mint?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOHi0w77bU

So i disconnet my Win10 drive and connect the new drive, boot the pc and go into the bios, then I d as in the video, save changes then I should be able to through the install process.

[Python]

Hi

Thanks for all the replies That I have received.

I have had Mint running for a couple of days now so still playing around with it.

I play an online game which uses flash buT I found that Firefox was very laggy and Chrome wasn't much better so I installed Opera and that is really good, Even the middle wheel lets me zoom in and out just like I can do in Win10. Firefox totally ignored the middle wheel.

Thanks again