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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scanner problem : latest
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 23:29:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180723232900.070e0978@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180720130426.GA1967@ca.inter.net>

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On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:04:26 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> However, I've just escaped fr another beast, ie Linux Mint 19 :
> DON'T try to install it alongside Gentoo !!
> 
> This beast leads you along to a point where you've told it where to
> install -- a partition on my HDD (sdb5) -- ,
> you click 'proceed' & it chugs along nicely for some time,
> then it says it's trying to install a bootloader
> without asking whether you want it to or where to do it.

For future reference, start the Mint installer with "ubiquity -b", then t
doesn't install a boot loader at all and you can add it to your Gentoo
bootloader after rebooting.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

WinErr 018: Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. Buy a new
one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-23 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-17  6:38 [gentoo-user] scanner problem Philip Webb
2018-07-17 14:18 ` Steven Lembark
2018-07-17 14:23 ` Jack
2018-07-17 14:43   ` Mick
2018-07-18  8:16 ` Philip Webb
2018-07-18  9:50   ` Andrew Udvare
2018-07-19  6:03   ` Raffaele Belardi
2018-07-19  9:29   ` [gentoo-user] scanner problem : latest Philip Webb
2018-07-19 10:03     ` Mick
2018-07-19 16:08     ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-07-20 13:04       ` Philip Webb
2018-07-20 13:25         ` [gentoo-user] Re: scanner problem : PS Philip Webb
2018-07-20 22:10         ` [gentoo-user] Re: scanner problem : latest Mick
2018-07-23 22:29         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2018-07-24 14:14           ` Philip Webb
2018-07-24 14:38             ` Mick
2018-07-26 14:30               ` Mick
2018-07-24 20:10             ` Neil Bothwick

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