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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Holly" data-source="post: 1026475" data-attributes="member: 90494">I answered my own question on Linux. I downloaded Mint Cinnamon again on my flash drive today. Rufus still would not work, I have no idea why but the Balena Etcher worked great. I installed Mint with no problems at all, I let the installer set up the partition and just had to agree to the setting. Then once I had Mint installed I double-clicked that &quot;Install Mint&quot; icon and it went through all of the setup parameters and settings by itself. I set up the dual boot, restarted to test it and it works fine. When I start my laptop it shows Mint as option 1 and Windows as Option 3 but I can choose either one. I also was glad to see a Welcome Setup tutorial and utility that gave me some tips about how Mint works, it also did some updates and checked for and downloaded/ran the correct current drivers for this older laptop to use Mint. The FF browser is also retaining the extensions and settings I chose for it. That did not happen at all when I was just running Mint from the flash drive. I am still checking out Mint and it will take some time to learn how it works but so far I like it a lot. One other thing, when I closed the browser on the installed Linux laptop, there was an icon in the top left corner for my other flash drive with my html file of Firefox bookmarks that I imported. All I had to do to eject the flash drive was right click and select &quot;eject&quot;. I am going to put in some time with Mint and learn how to use it. So far so good with it for now though.Thanks everybody for all the help on this. I have wanted to try Linux for a long time now and this is only the beginning.C.H.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Holly, post: 1026475, member: 90494"] I answered my own question on Linux. I downloaded Mint Cinnamon again on my flash drive today. Rufus still would not work, I have no idea why but the Balena Etcher worked great. I installed Mint with no problems at all, I let the installer set up the partition and just had to agree to the setting. Then once I had Mint installed I double-clicked that "Install Mint" icon and it went through all of the setup parameters and settings by itself. I set up the dual boot, restarted to test it and it works fine. When I start my laptop it shows Mint as option 1 and Windows as Option 3 but I can choose either one. I also was glad to see a Welcome Setup tutorial and utility that gave me some tips about how Mint works, it also did some updates and checked for and downloaded/ran the correct current drivers for this older laptop to use Mint. The FF browser is also retaining the extensions and settings I chose for it. That did not happen at all when I was just running Mint from the flash drive. I am still checking out Mint and it will take some time to learn how it works but so far I like it a lot. One other thing, when I closed the browser on the installed Linux laptop, there was an icon in the top left corner for my other flash drive with my html file of Firefox bookmarks that I imported. All I had to do to eject the flash drive was right click and select "eject". I am going to put in some time with Mint and learn how to use it. So far so good with it for now though. Thanks everybody for all the help on this. I have wanted to try Linux for a long time now and this is only the beginning. C.H. [/QUOTE]

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