Hi Everybody
I would like to ask for some help. I have a desktop PC which I plan on change the OS from Windows 10 to Linux. The first problem sloved itself. I tested both ElementaryOS and Linux Mint. Both of these OS finds my USB Wi-Fi adaptor without any problem. If remember correct both them is base on Debian. But my desktop PC has a very odd setup. This because it has two Hard drives. One is a Western Digital 500Gb and the second one is Samsung 250Gb. They hooked up like WD is master and the Samsung is a slave. I think they hooked with on the same cable. But I am not sure about that. Because I have DVD burner hooked up to, which if I remember correct is a IDE. So it can be the DVD burner and WD are hooked up together on IDE channel 1 while the Samsung is hooked up to IDE channel 2. Because My motherboard which is ASUS KPL....775 socket I think it is called has Two IDE channels. Now I have told a little about my desktop PC to my questions. Is there anyway to get Linux Mint which is the System I am thnking of using to format both Hard drives? And how does one do so? And which one of ElementaryOS or Linux Mint should one use? As far as I know both is base upon Debian. But both uses different windows manager. And sadly I like them both. But USB sticks I have can't recive the lastest version of both. Because the two USB sticks I have is about 2Gb. So one of these USB sticks has ElementaryOS 0.5 if I remember correct. And the other one has Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon on it. Both version if I remember correct is the 64-bit versions of them. So I was thinking that if I install like Linux Mint 20 it will update itself to Linux Mint 20.1 which is the newest version or should download it and use a bigger USB memory stick I have which is 4Gb? I am not sure about this. But I was thinking of using Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon on it. But I am not sure about the Hard drives since I have two of them and how Linux Mint 20 would see when it comes to that?
Yours
Christer Wickman
I would like to ask for some help. I have a desktop PC which I plan on change the OS from Windows 10 to Linux. The first problem sloved itself. I tested both ElementaryOS and Linux Mint. Both of these OS finds my USB Wi-Fi adaptor without any problem. If remember correct both them is base on Debian. But my desktop PC has a very odd setup. This because it has two Hard drives. One is a Western Digital 500Gb and the second one is Samsung 250Gb. They hooked up like WD is master and the Samsung is a slave. I think they hooked with on the same cable. But I am not sure about that. Because I have DVD burner hooked up to, which if I remember correct is a IDE. So it can be the DVD burner and WD are hooked up together on IDE channel 1 while the Samsung is hooked up to IDE channel 2. Because My motherboard which is ASUS KPL....775 socket I think it is called has Two IDE channels. Now I have told a little about my desktop PC to my questions. Is there anyway to get Linux Mint which is the System I am thnking of using to format both Hard drives? And how does one do so? And which one of ElementaryOS or Linux Mint should one use? As far as I know both is base upon Debian. But both uses different windows manager. And sadly I like them both. But USB sticks I have can't recive the lastest version of both. Because the two USB sticks I have is about 2Gb. So one of these USB sticks has ElementaryOS 0.5 if I remember correct. And the other one has Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon on it. Both version if I remember correct is the 64-bit versions of them. So I was thinking that if I install like Linux Mint 20 it will update itself to Linux Mint 20.1 which is the newest version or should download it and use a bigger USB memory stick I have which is 4Gb? I am not sure about this. But I was thinking of using Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon on it. But I am not sure about the Hard drives since I have two of them and how Linux Mint 20 would see when it comes to that?
Yours
Christer Wickman
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