linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Another question about Installing Mint 17 Mate

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 09:12:57PM -0500, 'Gene C. Falck' gfalck@merr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> Hi Scott and all,
>
> Scott wrote
>
> > ...Yeah, I meant to say sda. Apologies.
> >
> > Sometimes, in my experience, an installer will consider the detachable
> > drive, especially if it's a USB, sda. I've always been able to just
> > install to what the installer called sdb ...
>
> That certainly turned out to be what was happening. I got
> an apparently good install by going with the sdb as being
> the system on the target computer.
>
>
> FWIW, my result appears to run slower than Version 16 with
> its default setup; however this is an old machine and it may
> have just gotten a little closer to its end.

That's not unexpected. Many Linux distributions demand more resources with
each release. In the same way that Windows 7 expects more in resources
than Windows XP, a new version of Linux will usually demand more resources,
including the size necessary for an installation.

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Scott Robbins
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