[vox-tech] Fwd: help on Linux Mint 17.3 cinnamon?

[Brian E. Lavender]

Looks like Office Max sold all out of the Inspiron 3646 machines. 
I got three of them! 

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 02:42:03PM -0800, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> Buy el cheapo computer and install linux on it erasing all of windows.
> Office Max was selling some dirt cheap desktops. Inspiron 3646
> 
> brian
> 
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 03:31:51PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > 
> > Dave here emailed me directly at the root@ address, and I offered
> > to pass his question along to vox-tech list, to see if someone
> > here might be willing to lend a hand:
> > 
> > ========================================================================
> > 
> > Dave here in Citrus Heights. Hoping for help on using 64gb usb drive
> > for Linux tasks; and original hard drive C Windows 8 for other
> > tasks. (I visit Davis every 60 days or so, in case help is available.)
> > 
> > I'm a new user of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon; it runs fine on HP laptop
> > on 16gb bootable usb drive with 4 gb persistence file (in bios, boot
> > order is usb diskette first; secure boot is disabled).
> > 
> > I have failed in the following tasks:
> > 
> > * on a Mint bootable 64 gb usb drive with 4 gb persistence file:
> > failed in attempts with gparted app. to revise persistence upward to
> > tap unallocated space of around 58 gb.
> > 
> > * today, using 16gb bootable Mint usb drive, tried "full install" onto
> > 64 gb usb drive (no persistence file). It said installation completed;
> > I powered off, and tried re-boot, but 64 gb usb will not boot Mint (it
> > seems to look for usb drive, but boots to Windows 8).
> > 
> > ****
> > 
> > * also, if time allows, would like to work on Mint 16gb bootable usb
> > drive to revise persistence upward to tap unallocated space.
> > 
> > *****
> > 
> > ========================================================================
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > -bill!
> > Sent from my computer
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> Brian Lavender
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> 
> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
> 
> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> The 1980 Turing award lecture
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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture