I've decided to try installing a Linux Mint, and it's been going well so far. I'm just getting into the partitioning, and it has asked me something that makes me nervous. I'm going for a dual boot with XP, which has already been on the machine.
Mint's installer has gotten to "starting up the partitioner." I now have in front of me a box that says, "Unmount partitions that are in use?" It says, "The installer has detected that the following disks have mounted partitions: /dev/sdb Do you want the installer to try to unmount the partitions on these disks before continuing? If you leave them mounted, you will not be able to create, delete or resize partitions on these disks, but you may be able to install to exiting partitions there." Yes and no buttons below, with the "no" indicating default. The Mint installer apparently is set up to create and size new partitions. Advice? Is this a major irreversible step, something critical that could bite me with my current setup, or should I just go ahead and do it? Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest politics and public affairs WA, OR, ID Public Affairs Digests _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
