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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 19:03:56 GMT -5
Bout a week ago I put Mint 17 32 bit Cinnamon on a hard drive. So far I kind 'a like it. My question is, I want to install the 64 bit version, I have burned to disk the 64 bit version, so can I just reboot with the 64 version and sit back or should I put it on a different HD.
thanks in advance.
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Post by peteetongman on Jul 22, 2014 19:12:06 GMT -5
Bout a week ago I put Mint 17 32 bit Cinnamon on a hard drive. So far I kind 'a like it. My question is, I want to install the 64 bit version, I have burned to disk the 64 bit version, so can I just reboot with the 64 version and sit back or should I put it on a different HD.
thanks in advance. If it was me I'd delete the Hell outta the 32-bit version and install the 64, but if you can run 64 from a bootable USB or disk it might be a good idea to run it like that a few days to see if it runs OK on your machine. I have 32-bit Mint Cinnamon on my laptop and I love it. I can run the MS Office stuff on it and darn near anything else I want
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 19:15:00 GMT -5
To run MS Office did you need to install "Wine".
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Post by peteetongman on Jul 22, 2014 19:18:30 GMT -5
To run MS Office did you need to install "Wine". yep gotta have wine as far as I know. that's how I run it. I ran into another issue where I needed Silverlight and there's a workaround for that too. Mint is about the best distro out there now IMHO
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 19:24:51 GMT -5
What does the command look like to delete the 32 bit version. I haven't gotten that part down, just yet.
I agree, I might ditch MS altogether.
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Post by peteetongman on Jul 22, 2014 19:31:27 GMT -5
What does the command look like to delete the 32 bit version. I haven't gotten that part down, just yet.
I agree, I might ditch MS altogether. IIRC if you are installing a new version there are several options in setup like 'dual boot' 'use X% of HDD for install', etc etc etc I usually just choose 'use entire HDD' or something like that, and it over-writes the entire HDD I tell people all the time you can take a computer that is perhaps a few years old and install linux instead of Windows, and it will really speed things up
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 19:45:49 GMT -5
What does the command look like to delete the 32 bit version. I haven't gotten that part down, just yet.
I agree, I might ditch MS altogether. IIRC if you are installing a new version there are several options in setup like 'dual boot' 'use X% of HDD for install', etc etc etc I usually just choose 'use entire HDD' or something like that, and it over-writes the entire HDD I tell people all the time you can take a computer that is perhaps a few years old and install linux instead of Windows, and it will really speed things up What amazed me is I took the 32 bit mint HDD out of a xp rig and put it in a win7 rig and the darn thing booted up, I was impressed but when I loaded the win system first, windows wouldn't recognize the mint drive, I did that to wipe the mint drive so I could have a clean install. Any advice?
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Post by peteetongman on Jul 22, 2014 20:09:54 GMT -5
IIRC if you are installing a new version there are several options in setup like 'dual boot' 'use X% of HDD for install', etc etc etc I usually just choose 'use entire HDD' or something like that, and it over-writes the entire HDD I tell people all the time you can take a computer that is perhaps a few years old and install linux instead of Windows, and it will really speed things up What amazed me is I took the 32 bit mint HDD out of a xp rig and put it in a win7 rig and the darn thing booted up, I was impressed but when I loaded the win system first, windows wouldn't recognize the mint drive, I did that to wipe the mint drive so I could have a clean install. Any advice? not sure how to answer that one other than to speculate that windows will simply not recognize or see a linux partition. Mint has a pretty good support forum tho, perhaps someone there can answer. I have to research almost everything I do in Mint every single time because after the initial setups I haven't fiddled with it much forums.linuxmint.com/index.php?sid=8af4a2e1a1cedbce0e272f0179551d03
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Post by peteetongman on Jul 22, 2014 22:47:06 GMT -5
here is a link to install Pipelight in linux if you ever need it. I have a security surveillance program I like to run on my Linux laptop, and the program requires Silverlight. Pipelight is the workaround: dottech.org/126951/how-to-install-microsoft-silverlight-ubuntu-linux-guide/you may never need it but I played Hell trying to find something like this that would allow me to run the program while traveling
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Post by richardcavessa on Jul 25, 2014 15:32:40 GMT -5
try it on a clean hd, usually another rig...never heard anything good about double boots
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Post by peteetongman on Jul 25, 2014 16:05:03 GMT -5
try it on a clean hd, usually another rig...never heard anything good about double boots I've run a couple Linux/Windows dual boots and they ran like clockwork, but on my newest laptop I took the plunge and only put Linux Mint on it. I'm a Linux devotee now. It's not the baffling challenge it used to be
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