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Well, I found my way to deal with this kernel problem. I just have to uncheck the kernel in the packages list to update and that's it, no update trouble anymore. Maybe some update will require the kernel's update, then I will come back to this issue. Right now I am happy with Mint, and uncheck...

The answer is 2960MB of total memory available, must be the 3GB less the video memory. Also the swap is not used unless I do open a lot of apps, maybe there is 4GB being used but the diagnose tools are missing... Thought we need more powerful tools, but as newbe I don't know any. For Mac there...

I did execute the command and reboot. I can't see any changes, just "feel" a very quickly OS considering the age of the machine. Is there a way to check if OS is really using the 1GB of hidden memory? It seems to me PAE is a technology for 32bits OS, so the memory above 3GB will be used somehow...

I have just configured a backup. I did the reporting and will try to uninstall that kernel so won't have to boot with shift all the time. But any changes only after I make sure there is a reliable backup available...

Yeah! Holding shift I opened advanced menu and choosen the previous kernel (.26) and both screen and WiFi are now correct! Two question to close this issue: How to keep it booting this kernel? How can I know I can upgrade without this issues? (thought they will work to fix it) Plus question...

These packages are already installed. Gparted can create or delete, but not resize, thought is a limitation. My graphics is a GMA 950, recognized as GMA 945 and the driver is reported as N/A. There is no options available in settings, this is the only option. Need a working driver to manage...

Here is: System: Kernel: 5.4.0-58-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Desktop System: Apple product: Macmini2,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F4208EAA v: PVT serial...

I installed Linux Mint 20 this week and it was running so well... But I was still struggling to configure an external disk to setup a backup, I like GParted, but it miss some resources, I needed to resize some exFAT partition. Meanwhile, I decided to let Mint do the auto update - big mistake...

So... it works! I tried Mint 20 and it worked at the first try, that was easy! I advise people to read what is there, a lot of interesting stuff. As always, there is a BUT - a big one. Linux won't see beyond 3GB of RAM memory. I don't know how Linux map memory at boot, but it will probably...

My Mac mini is 2007 too. It's combodrive was destroyed by an unbalanced CD a long time ago, I replaced by a superdrive from an iBook, it is not perfectly installed inside, but it works. External USB drives or even Sata external with IDE interface won't boot. I think I already tried external...

Wow! There is a lot of good stuff there, @theoak2, and updated! I am looking at now. After a quick read, I realize I got close to achieve a successful installation of a 64 bit Linux OS, real close! But I got no background enough for that, as Apollo 13 mission, close and far away looks the same...

Just giving a feedback of the sate of things. I can't work all the time on this, have just some portion of the day, besides, my mind got stressed sometimes. The point now is not what to do, but how to do. I am learning about boot and how Grub works. However, my PCs are not ready for the task...

I know, but I did two 32768MB ext4 partitions exactly, I was careful on the numbers. The internal part, I mean, the ext4 layer should be exactly the same. If one byte is missing for some reason, it will generates an error in this case. Why? One reason is a bug in DD counting wrong (a common...

Well, I'm still learning how to use it, but it seems a fine solution. But I am still curious about why DD could not make a duplicate from a 32GB partition to another 32GB partition, that was odd...

Never heard about timeshift, will investigate... I already used Clonezilla in the past, and I don't remember had this kind of trouble. I didn't used because was looking for a backup that won't need a bigger space than actualy used by data (if was using 20GB from 32GB, the backup should use 20GB...

I need to make a copy of my system so I can mess with it and come back in time, if I need. I am not happy with backup options I found, and I am not sure GParted copy is reliable - besides, I need to boot in an USB stick otherwise it does nothing. DD seems to do the job right. But here is the...

I tried those instructions. First I tried with Ubuntu, no luck. Maybe worked with version 14, I tried using Lubuntu 19 and 16 LTS. Than I realize I was already in the middle of the process with Debian, but got no luck yet. But it's kinda interesting, I am learning a bit about boot. Also my boot...

In fact 64 bits OS won't run officially. I don't know why Apple did like this, but I suppose their wish was to make more with the little box. But the Intel GPU is really above expectations, plus the box was sell with 256MB RAM that barely could run Leopard, and the 5200 HDD was really slow. They...

I did install some Linux and never got much knowledge of how it works. When Linus begin to write it, it was something for hackers and servers, and for some rebels - my case. I was sick of Windows, but I was in college, out of time, and had to give up of learning Unix like systems and buy an...

I have a Mac Mini mid 2007 with Debian 10 32 bit running just fine... but there is almost nothing to really work on it... 32 bit, despite my efforts, it's a dead architecture. So it's just to install a 64 OS or upgrade this one right? Well... This Mac Mini got no optical drive (I will try tu put...