Ok Wizard, I tried setting the background and saving another doc. No go. It was set temporarily, but gone on reboot. I selected the 'check integrity of the medium' on the boot menu...it ran, yet there was no results shown. I agree there would be not much purpose, yet I see a couple of benefits. I could attempt to download packages to get gnomeppp working, and learn how to succeed when this is on HD. It would also decrease the stress on the machine with all the shutdowns from bouncing between Linux and Windows for net access I will need it on the persistence if I succeed there. So it would be a big help to me if someone could tell me how to find the wvdial.conf file so that I could open it in a text editor.
I must have been kicked off dial-up before I finished this last night/actually 2am this morning. Sorry, I did test persistence again, It did not persist, will try again today to create another usb. I've been using the same Mint package for all of this. Do they wear out? I tried making it in windows compatability mode. UNetBootin said it was successful, yet I can't see any 'storage' space and it did not persist. When I tried making it with UNetBootin for Linux it crashed the machine, yet that could have been with the original unetbootin package, or on that original disk which wasn't clean enough yet. Will try again today.
In reference to the modem when asked where I will install. It doesn't matter where I install the modem. The only info of importance in it's installation that will change is the phone number and I have the valid number for 'town' with me. I'm home today. Let's assume it will be installed from home. I only have access to internet from home via dialup. Hispeed only in town. My dialup is only 28,000 K at home and often 24,000, I've even seen 900. Not good. Just loading web pages is time consuming.
The bigger issue is getting Mint successfully installed on this HD where there is 200 GB for it to play with. How should partitions be constructed...on which partition should /root; /boot; and /home be located. Which device should the boot loader be installed? These are the questions the Mint installer is asking. The Installation process seemed happy with the construction. It was only the location of these elements which was not in line.
I can fix the wvdial if I access the wvdial.conf file. The directions told how to do that. Just forgot that a noobe doesn't know how to get a hold of the conf file.
Re-reading...Yes Wizard internet access in Linux Mint only at friend's hispeed. I can conf modem from anywhere, yet let us consider it will be done at home unless there is reason to do it with hispeed access, in which case I will make it happen. Thanks again for everything.
Vrai: I am glad to hear from you always. I put in <wvdial> It is installed whenever I enter sudo apt-get install wvdial. When a modem is present it recognizes it's speed port etc. I just need to input phone number, name and password for my internet account. This is accomplished by editing in a text editor the /etc/wvdial.conf file. My issue is how do I point the text editor to open the config file?
I would very much appreciate this information.
Persistence did not persist. I'm going to try to install it from Linux. Is it wise to continue using the same Linux Mint 19.3 iso for all of these usb creations?