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Hi,

On 2021-08-13 11:47 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Thx to Polyna especially, for telling me that I have x86-64 machine. Do
> not yet know x86 part but 64bit it certainly is.
> In Mint 32bit i686 still. but now
> I know a little bit (!) more about this machine, how chmod is not wise
> to use, etc. Kinda fun, cos Mint lets me in again. So far.
> My Mini PC Windows 10 128GB SSD is in the customs here (been there 6
> weeks..), great. Hope I can use the screen on this for a week or two..
Earlier you said you are running a computer based on Mac ?

Wasn't the case ?

It's hard to follow this thread...

> I will surely stay in Mint, that is without root, chroot, chmod etc
> until I have a tiny clue what all this is doing with my computer. Wild
> child still, weird.
> Gunnar
> 
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 09:45, Keith Bainbridge <keithrboz@gmail.com
> <mailto:keithrboz@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 13/8/21 18:15, Gunnar Gervin wrote:
>     > I tried to partition with rEFInd because Linux Mint 19 i386 xfce
>     32bit
>     > worked with EFI. In hope to upgrade to x86-64bit. After it looked
>     like
>     > all good, I went out, thinking it was OK. But installation came
>     back to
>     > start, asking me to choose put boot in Mbr, Partition with Gparted or
>     > Abort. Mbr resulted in warning. Gparted offered grub bios, took that,
>     > result was root in /target
>     > instead of in /dev/sda1
>     > Now:
>     > lsblk
>     > sda1 148G  part  /
>     > sda3  999M  part
>     >
>     > Looks okay;
>     > sda1 as root
>     > sda3 as swap
>     >
>     > Better I try boot
>     > Then see what happens.
>     > (Later upgrade to 64bit if I can).
>     > BR,
>     > Gunnar
> 
> 
>     Gunnar
> 
>     I suggest you stick with Mint until you get a better understanding of
>     how things work.
> 
> 
>     Try testing in virtual machine
> 
>     -- 
>     All the best
> 
>     Keith Bainbridge
> 
>     keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com <mailto:keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com>
> 

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