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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Wish to install Linux Mint 13, Mepis and Solus OS. Help! Post 302673181 by Corona688 on Tuesday 17th of July 2012 03:19:33 PM

07-17-2012

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We can't really see your computer from here, so we can't help you down to the 'what button do I push' level. You may have used Linux before but don't seem that familiar with it (referring to disks by drive letters and all -- Linux has no such concept like 'drive letter!') Knowing how to install one Linux really doesn't tell you how to install any other; linux is the 1-meg file which loads on boot, literally everything else is what programs they built and what programs they chose to bundle with it. It's not an all-in-one package the way Windows is.

My suggestion would be to install on the drive you've designated 'F' and ignore the primary hard drive completely. Adjust the boot-order in CMOS so it boots the linux hard disk first, instead of trying to play games with two OSes and one bootloader. You can get that working later if you want, but you don't have to deal with that difficulty if you don't need to.

This will be much safer than trying to dual-boot, wherein one mistake in installation could destroy both OSes...

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grub-install

GRUB-INSTALL(8) 							FSF							   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME

       grub-install - install GRUB on your drive

SYNOPSIS

       grub-install [OPTION] install_device

DESCRIPTION

       Install GRUB on your drive.

       -h, --help
	      print this message and exit

       -v, --version
	      print the version information and exit

       --root-directory=DIR
	      install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory

       --grub-shell=FILE
	      use FILE as the grub shell

       --no-floppy
	      do not probe any floppy drive

       --force-lba
	      force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS

       --recheck
	      probe a device map even if it already exists

       INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

       grub-install  copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the
       boot sector.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO

       grub(8), update-grub(8).

       The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package.  If  the  info  and  grub-install
       programs are properly installed at your site, the command

	      info grub-install

       should give you access to the complete manual.

grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)					   January 2013 						   GRUB-INSTALL(8)