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| - | ====== Preparing your Machine ====== | + | <html><h1></html>{{:clipart:system-install-green.png?nolink&75 |}} <html><span style="vertical-align:middle;"></html>LMDE Base Install<html></span></h1><div style="clear:both;"></div></html> |
| - | <WRAP important> | + | |
| - | Please keep in mind that changing the configuration of the boot manager and/or boot loader on your computer **can very easily render it unbootable**.\\ | + | |
| - | As they say **YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**, so please take caution when attempting any of the suggested actions.\\ | + | |
| - | Everything you will do, you will do at your own risks and I will not take responsibility for anything bad that could happen to your system. | + | |
| - | </WRAP> | + | |
| - | BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) equipped motherboards usually let you select the boot order of available devices by pressing a specific (combination of) key at startup. This won't be covered here. | + | So you're ready to start your LMDE journey. |
| - | In case your computer's motherboard is equipped with an EFI (Unified Firmware Interface), selecting the boot device can be quite an ordeal. You will have to prepare it in order to be able to boot from the device/partition of your choice. | + | I'll do my best to walk beside you and help you avoid as much trap as possible. But of course it will be **YOUR** journey and as the saying goes: |
| - | <WRAP tip> | + | > **It is the path and not the goal that deserves the trip.** |
| - | To prevent anything bad from happening to your data, it is strongly recommended that you use a completely separate disk to experiment with, I personally used an external USB Key for experimenting things before I switched to an external USB2 hard drive, swap out your current hard drive if necessary ! | + | |
| - | </WRAP> | + | |
| - | ===== rEFInd ===== | + | The first step on the path will be [[install:preparation|preparing your machine]], so click on the link and, as Alice did in Wonderland, follow the white rabbit! |
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| - | In the Macintosh environment the solution is to install rEFInd. | + | |
