Update later that same morning
I figured it out. I'm on this forum using the Mint computer now.
Gerry
Hi Oldfeller,
I have been lurking through most of your recent post about OS's and such and enjoying them. I used to play around with Linux back in the day when Mandrake then Mandriva were common and available distro's.
So I thought I would give Linux another look see and following the link you provided in the beginning of this thread I installed Mint version 13 on my spare newly formatted and new install of Win XP machine. Updated the XP install as well as defragged the hard drive.
Now I see that there is a newer version of Mint (16) that I downloaded and burned the image to DVD.
I went to install it with the intent of erasing the Mint 13 partition and installing Mint 16.
Problem is the only options I get in the installer is to erase the entire drive, install 16 along side of XP and 13 or create my own partitions. I choose create my own partitions and I get into very unfamiliar territory.
Can you offer some guidance for creating these partitions? I tried to just erase the Mint 13 ext/4 partition and install 16 to the partition but it asks me for mount points and I tried to use / but it doesn't like that either. There is a long list of mount points in the drop down and I think it wants me to choose and set the size for all these mount point partitions? I thought it would just be a simple 2 partitions, mint 16 and swap but I am not getting it I guess. I wish there was jut an option to install the new Mint where the old mint was.
Any ways, thank you for any advice you can give.
Gerry