clust3rfck
New Member
Help!
I am so lost and really starting to get frustrated. I want to learn Linux. The end goal is to create a cluster.
I don't have a pen drive but I do have several hard drives. I want to install Mint on a hard drive I have and then put that hard drive into another computer so I can play along with tutorials and stuff. The instructions are unclear and scary. It looks like if I download Mint on another hard drive I have to create partitions, which I am unsure how to do. Then it looks like once I restart the computer is going to ask me which OS to boot to. Is it still going to do that if I put that hard drive into another machine? Will that screw up my windows? I have been reading stuff I can find and it seems like there are several different GUI's to choose from which is another confusing mess.
There is so much info out there that it is all confusing as hell.
Is ther a simple idiot proof guide to installing this on a seperate hard drive? I have been looking at youtube videos, but they end up going nowhere. I watched one where the guy got about half way through the install and got stuck... Not so helpful...
I am so lost and really starting to get frustrated. I want to learn Linux. The end goal is to create a cluster.
I don't have a pen drive but I do have several hard drives. I want to install Mint on a hard drive I have and then put that hard drive into another computer so I can play along with tutorials and stuff. The instructions are unclear and scary. It looks like if I download Mint on another hard drive I have to create partitions, which I am unsure how to do. Then it looks like once I restart the computer is going to ask me which OS to boot to. Is it still going to do that if I put that hard drive into another machine? Will that screw up my windows? I have been reading stuff I can find and it seems like there are several different GUI's to choose from which is another confusing mess.
There is so much info out there that it is all confusing as hell.
Is ther a simple idiot proof guide to installing this on a seperate hard drive? I have been looking at youtube videos, but they end up going nowhere. I watched one where the guy got about half way through the install and got stuck... Not so helpful...