I want to install a mint 13 distro onto my computer next to my AntiX distro but it fails because I do not know which AntiX files to import into Mint for the installation to take place. Can someone help me with this, please? Thanks!

cousinlucky wrote:I want to install a mint 13 distro onto my computer next to my AntiX distro but it fails because I do not know which AntiX files to import into Mint for the installation to take place. Can someone help me with this, please? Thanks!

I have no idea what you mean by

but it fails because I do not know which AntiX files to import into Mint for the installation to take place

Mint uses grub 2 so no importing of anything into mint should be needed or I am just missing the point somewhere. On your screensaverand firewall issue cuz. I am waiting for other members to respond as I am not a
screensaver type of dude on my equipment. Plus my router has a firmware firewall.

I've given up trying to install Mint 13 altogether. I am going to seek a Mint 9 disk instead. Roky, I finally got around to looking at that Slax disk you sent me many years ago now that I am finally distro expolring.

I've got Mint 9 Fulxbox edition installed on sda1, and recently tried Mint 13 XCFE on sda6, only to find it seems slow as anything, and installing Fluxbox onto it was as bad as trying to install Fluxbox on Ubuntu. So having spotted anticapitalista on sleekmason's fluxbox blog I removed Mint 13 and installed AntiX.

So having installed it, Mint 9 no longer shows up at boot, and the reason is because AntiX uses grub, while Mint uses grub2. You fix this by installing grub2 and boot-strapping from grub, at which point the two OSs work fine. This tutorial helped me:

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If the problem is with Grub you might look at Super Grub2 on:


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This does NOT install any software but it finds all the Grub configuration files on a disk and allow you to edit, launch Etc any of them. Runs from CD or USB. Useful for sorting out Grub problems.

dmk