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Okay, so you're giving it its own drive then. Hook that drive up by itself and mint should install much easier (and with much less risk of it trampling over anything else). Once it's installed, you can control which drive your computer boots first through the CMOS settings, or perhaps f12 boot-selection if your BIOS has that.

"alt-f4" doesn't close a window in a prompt because there is no window. You're not in a GUI! You don't have to "escape" the dmesg output either -- it quits by itself when it's done, so do nearly any console commands except editors and viewers. That red thing is a "prompt", when you see a cursor flashing beside it that means the console's waiting for you to type something into it and hit enter.

So you didn't "quit" anything as there was nothing to quit, I think you actually managed to switch to a different console. When a gentoo minimal CD boots it puts you into text mode, in terminal one. There's at least six separate terminals available via ctrl-alt-f1 through ctrl-alt-f6. alt-left or alt-right cycle through them in different directions I think.

alt-f4 is a Windows thing anyway. In lots of window managers it does nothing.

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cal

CAL(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    CAL(1)

NAME

     cal -- displays a calendar

SYNOPSIS

     cal [-smjy13] [[month] year]

DESCRIPTION

     Cal displays a simple calendar.  If arguments are not specified, the current month is displayed.  The options are as follows:

     -1      Display single month output.  (This is the default.)

     -3      Display prev/current/next month output.

     -s      Display Sunday as the first day of the week.  (This is the default.)

     -m      Display Monday as the first day of the week.

     -j      Display Julian dates (days one-based, numbered from January 1).

     -y      Display a calendar for the current year.

     A single parameter specifies the year (1 - 9999) to be displayed; note the year must be fully specified: ``cal 89'' will not display a calen-
     dar for 1989.  Two parameters denote the month (1 - 12) and year.	If no parameters are specified, the current month's calendar is displayed.

     A year starts on Jan 1.

     The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September.  By this time, most countries had recognized the ref-
     ormation (although a few did not recognize it until the early 1900's.)  Ten days following that date were eliminated by the reformation, so
     the calendar for that month is a bit unusual.

HISTORY

     A cal command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

OTHER VERSIONS

     Several much more elaborate versions of this program exist, with support for colors, holidays, birthdays, reminders and appointments, etc.
     For example, try the cal from http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/projects.html or GNU gcal.

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