From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2619138334 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32FD5E0948; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91EC2E092F for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A592EB774 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:14:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fAxVF-q7kOGw for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:06:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-184-164-2-95.dyn.295.ca [184.164.2.95]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C75E2EB719 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:14:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:14:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 10:14:32 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scanner problem : latest Message-ID: <20180724141432.GE1955@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20180717063853.GA1944@ca.inter.net> <20180718081613.GA1940@ca.inter.net> <20180719092919.GA1967@ca.inter.net> <20180719160843.ik3sjhcwt4z7gswm@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20180720130426.GA1967@ca.inter.net> <20180723232900.070e0978@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180723232900.070e0978@digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Archives-Salt: c79201be-b2a0-4e2a-bc84-774c3f688a54 X-Archives-Hash: d572c76f0d24743c5dad5a9d518d74fe 180723 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:04:26 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Linux Mint 19 leads you along to a point where you've told it >> where to install, you click 'proceed' & it chugs along nicely, >> 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 it doesn't install a boot loader at all > and you can add it to your Gentoo bootloader after rebooting. I started the Mint installer by clicking on its desktop button. What is 'ubiquity' & how would I use it ? > WinErr 018: Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. > Buy a new one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore. That's how I felt for 30 min after Mint played its dirty trick above (grin). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca