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• 10.6 8 UPGRADE HOW TO

DON'T TOUCH /dev/sda1!!! DON'T TOUCH /home!!!Ĭreate the three partitions below in the new free space between EFI and /home. Remember, you will lose your OSX partition but you said you don't want OSX anyway. Just something to be aware of.ĭev/sda1 - EFI - DON'T TOUCH!! or your system won't boot and you'll have to start again. If you do run into weird things happening after your install, it may be those old config files and folders. Be prepared for some strange stuff to happen. Remember, all of the hidden configuration files and folders in your home folder are for Mint 13 and the installed apps you had with Mint 13. I am just trying to ensure that I can do this upgrade in an hour or two, without some mishap that makes the machine unusable while fixing an unforeseen issue. What do I have to do to allow the machine to boot in the new configuration? Should I be removing rEFIt somehow, replace it, or just leave it there as it is? If I use a Live CD to simply reformat the old Mac OS partition and the old Mint OS partition, and collapse them into one single new Mint OS 18.1 partition, can you foresee anything going wrong?

Have not used Mac OS X in a long time, so might as well use the space for other things. So, the Mac OS X os partition is gone in the new configuration. my same untouched data partition as above

10.6 8 UPGRADE HOW TO

However, my machine differs from the one described above so I am unsure how to proceed in certain aspects.Īt present, I have a Mac mini configured with partitions like this: My plan is to follow this tutorial to upgrade Linux mint. Specifically, can anybody comment on my proposed plan, or point me to relevant tutorials? I have some questions as to the procedure, ordering, etc, to modernize my machine yet again. Just as I was finally getting comfortable with my system setup, Linux Mint 13 has reached end of life.