What is the deal with the coffee??

[henryjm206]

What are the coffee beans for under your username??


Today when I was online I saw a post about different desktop environments and I thought I wanted KDE so I went to apt-get install it and then I realized I was typing into the command prompt in windows(I Have a dual boot system) :)

Henry

[mellowd]

I type ls and hit tab constantly in windows command prompt

[mike1234]

What are the coffee beans for under your username??


Today when I was online I saw a post about different desktop environments and I thought I wanted KDE so I went to apt-get install it and then I realized I was typing into the command prompt in windows(I Have a dual boot system) :)

Henry

Consider yourself a Linux convert maybe? As for coffee beans, I thought they were cocoa beans. :)

M.

[henryjm206]

yeah but I don't know how to remove just one partition:confused:
Henry
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I would like to replace windows with linux mint.

[mike1234]

yeah but I don't know how to remove just one partition:confused:
Henry
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I would like to replace windows with linux mint.

No hurry, no worry. I did the dual boot thing with Windows for years. I like having access to other operating systems on occasion. Ubuntu (for me) is a total solution. I wish every OS was available as a live cd. Sometimes I just like to check new or different versions out.

M.

[barbedsaber]

The easist way would probably to boot into a gparted livecd, find the ntfs partition (windows partition) wipe, and use the free space to make a new ext3 partition. then install mint onto the new ext3 partition. The fastest way to get gparted would probably be with a torrent, try http://www.btmon.com/Applications/Unsorted/GParted-Clonezilla_2_0.torrent.html
hope that helps.

[henryjm206]

I love live cds it is very handy to not have to install the os
Henry

[jespdj]

I type ls and hit tab constantly in windows command prompt
Me too. Tab for completing filenames works in the Windows command prompt.

Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), so that you can use the Linux commands that you're used to on Windows.

[amazingtaters]

I'm going to answer the why the coffee beans question. It's just a ranking based on your post count. Honestly they could be replaced with USMC ranks if that was decided upon. Basically, there's just that little theme to the forums that gives it a little bit of flavour. And I think the coffee imagery goes well with the default Ubuntu colours, really ties everything together.

[billgoldberg]

The easist way would probably to boot into a gparted livecd, find the ntfs partition (windows partition) wipe, and use the free space to make a new ext3 partition. then install mint onto the new ext3 partition. The fastest way to get gparted would probably be with a torrent, try http://www.btmon.com/Applications/Unsorted/GParted-Clonezilla_2_0.torrent.html
hope that helps.

Why would he want to install Mint, when he already is using Ubuntu?

I would shrink your current Ubuntu partition, after you formatted the Vista partition, to around 20gb, then make all the other partitions into 1 big one and have /home there.

If you don't know what I mean:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

[agurk]

I thought I wanted KDE

Right, that is a common newbie mistake.



(I kid, I kid!)

[mellowd]

Me too. Tab for completing filenames works in the Windows command prompt.

Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), so that you can use the Linux commands that you're used to on Windows.

True that. Microsoft finally took something good out of Linux's book :)