*Rubs Hands Gleefully from shiny new 32 bit-PITA-to-build-but-now-it´s-done system
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Okey dokey time to get me some kek action for this baby.
Thanks muchly for this excellent resource, it truly is an outstanding effort.
*runs off like happy teenager*
Notes on building a 32 mint system:
It´s simple, go get the ISO, burn it, shove the biscuit in the DVD drive, ¨boot from DVD¨ via bios, When it´s booted click the install icon and follow the very simple instructions.
Side Note: In my case I had a defective drive so I ended up chasing weird boot errors for a couple of days till I just switched out devices until I found one that was happy - I highly doubt anyone else will have this experience.
I also could not get my bios to boot from USB stick using the custom bootloaders (that was using cinnamon or mate MINT 13, Starting with the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE RC, Linux Mint switched to Hybrid ISO images. I could have gone KDE but that wasn´t much of a change from my previous slackware install defaults, this route was not for me, thought I would indicate the option though)
I have installed Mint Cinnamon for now and Mate on another machine, probably going to switch over to another window manager in the medium term. If there are any details that are worth noting I´ll pop them on this thread but so far it´s been a HIGHLY painless experience to use. (Other than the silly hw fail)
Thanks for the tip!