Vrai: I just realized last night/this am that I was really thinking about Mint 'Live'...I equate Life with Freedom and my brain got stuck using the wrong term. I've been writing and thinking 'Free' and it should be 'Live'...sorry for the confusion. This will be 5 wks this Sunday I've been focused on this bone, yet I've been thinking wrong from the get go.
Wizard: Thank you for the info and direction. I'll try those programs, yet if we get Mint installed it will be a moot point, which I'll still pursue. I will have to wait till next hispeed connection to do that, and I don't know when that may be. What do you think of indicating the 'sys' sda1 partition for the 'boot loader' selection at the bottom of the installation program, and '/root' in the sda3 'ext4', with sda 6 partition being designated '/boot? I was able to get Rufus from dial up!
Wizard: Thank you for the info and direction. I'll try those programs, yet if we get Mint installed it will be a moot point, which I'll still pursue. I will have to wait till next hispeed connection to do that, and I don't know when that may be. What do you think of indicating the 'sys' sda1 partition for the 'boot loader' selection at the bottom of the installation program, and '/root' in the sda3 'ext4', with sda 6 partition being designated '/boot? I was able to get Rufus from dial up!