31 Dec
2016
31 Dec
'16
10:29 p.m.
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 31 December 2016 17:56:59 Felmon Davis
wrote:
I think I am.
suppose I now install Trinity. should I let it
write to the mbr or
rather to its own partition?
I am confused, or you are confused, or we are both confused. Trinity is a desktop environment, not an operating
system.
you're right, of course. I usually install DE and OS together. thus
the conflation.
The mbr doesn't come into it. Install the
relevant operating
system, with or without a DE, then install Trinity from the Trinity
repositories as you would any other software from your distros
repositories. Then it cannot muck up your other OS's.
here another point of confusion: NetRunner uses KDE4 (or KDE5, not
sure).
can I really install Trinity side-by-side with it?
I figured I should format a partition and do an install of Trinity
(ok, debian + trinity).
It is, if you wish, possible to use one of the available Live CDs to install
an OS with Trinity already installed, and the default DE, just as most Debian
newbies install Debian with Gnome and most Ubuntu newbies install Ubuntu with
Unity. But you don't have to do so, and I never do. I install Debian, and
then add Trinity.
I usually install exegnu which defaults to trinity as DE.
thanks for clearing my mind about an aspect of this.
so I can install OS and Trinity on separate partition.
or (?) install Trinity on top of NetRunner.
f.
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Felmon Davis
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-- H. G. Wells