So everything went off without a hitch adding Linux.
I selected ext3 for the file system, after installation
the updates took a few minutes. Total size looks like
it is just 3.7GB, so that is about a quarter the
size of my slimmed down XP, although I'm sure it
will double as I add some things.
At startup grub presents everything--boot up Helena,
a Mint rescue, the small Dell hardware utilities
partition I left on the drive, and of course XP.
When I do boot XP it does not see the Linux partition
at all, and in Mint so long as I only select the filesystem
icon I don't see any XP folders. I can try to mount
the HDD (there is an icon for it that shows the full
size) but I wont risk doing that and don't see the
point. If I want to share files, I'll use my thumb
drive, which I've already used to move my firefox
bookmarks over.
Anyway, I was very slow and cautious, but so far so good.
It'll fun to 'compile' programs and stuff, whatever that
is all about. Avidemux is the first thing I'll try,
see if editing video is smoother here than under xp.
It is nice to have a fully functional system without
having done a thing at the command line! |
