Thanks Alexzee, Do you by chance know the command line to 'run' wvdialer from terminal. It is suppose to be installed [I succeeded from terminal] and it says I can run it, yet I can't find it in the apps nor can I figure out the proper phrase to run it from terminal. Maybe all of this requires a successful install of Mint on the HD. I will check the partitions again in a moment. I've been trying to figure our the modem dialer issue all day today. I thought the partition structure was properly accomplished following directions in the Ubuntu partition tutorial, and the Mint installation process with the help of boot repair. It was stated that it was installing...got the welcome window, and required password input. Then a message that 'grub failed. I followed Wizards directions and deleted sda 3 & 4. Then followed tutorial: after the 'sys' sda1 and windows sda2 partitions, and created 25GB Root primary partition, a 9GB swap and the rest /Home, which resulted in an extended partition being created containing the swap and Home. I'd send a screen shot if I could get one in windows...grrr. sda1 'sys' ntfs 41MB 'do not use this partition'; sda2 'windows 7' ntfs 241642 MB 'do not use' unknown; sda3 '25000 MB ext4 / mount point; sda5 swap 8999MB unknown; and sda6 ext4 ext journaling file sys /home mount point; both sda3 and sda6 were marked with an 'x' in a box preceeding their info, with the device for boot loader being sda. The installer proceeded to install with a welcome screen, during installation, and a window to set password, and then the message 'Grub failed to install grub-efi-amd64-signed 'pkg failed into /target/. It will not boot. Crashed. Tried again installing boot on sda3. This time we get a blank black screen, with the driver blinking light on the front of the machine blinking, with Linux Mint Live usb blinking periodically. Get message 'Grub installation failed again -Bug report. Boot repair for windows MBR told me to run these commands 'grub-pc pkg upgraded. Select devices to install grub. install to be automatic. There was talk about installing it on all drives, which I would have selected if I was given the option, but it never offered the option. It also said 'It is possible to install Grub to partition boot records as well, and some appropriate partitions offered here, however block fist mechanism must be used and makes it less reliable.' Again I saw no options. Then it said ' Grub install devices: /dev sda 7846MB; VBox Harddisk; /dev/sda1 (3634MB; /).' Hit enter. Saw purge grub sda3, reinstall grub. Creating past bin
http://past.ubuntu.com/p/bF4h7b7bDGDT/. Then it said 'You may want to retry after creating a /boot partition (EXT4, to 200MB, start of the disk) , which you can do in gparted. Then select this partition via the [separate /boot partition:] option [Boot Repair]. (
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot Partition)' I'm stuck. Have no clue what to do. Need guidance on how to make screen shot in windows, and how to 'run' an installed program wvdialer from terminal. All help greatly appreciated.