How to reinstall lm

wheedwhackerjones · 12-24-2017, 11:42 PM

First time linux user.
Dual booting with Windows 10
Just installed Linux Mint 18.3

If I want to reformat this partition, and run the linux mint installer again without dedicated swap space, what steps do I need to take?

Thanks in advance

Edit: I would like to know: If I want to remove Linux Mint, and install Ubuntu in it's place (still dual-booting w/ Windows 10) how would I go about that? Or, if I wanted to just do a fresh install of Linux Mint?

ondoho · 12-25-2017, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by wheedwhackerjones

Edit: installing drivers removed the "running in software rendering mode." So, that's good

ok, so that's solved.
you might want to change your thread title to represent your subsequent question:

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I would like to know, though. If I want to remove Linux Mint, and install Ubuntu in it's place (still dual-booting w/ Windows 10) how would I go about that? Or, if I wanted to just do a fresh install of Linux Mint?

you simply install over the current installation.
be careful, obviously.
there's no such thing as uninstalling a distro.

wheedwhackerjones · 12-25-2017, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

ok, so that's solved.
you might want to change your thread title to represent your subsequent question:
you simply install over the current installation.
be careful, obviously.
there's no such thing as uninstalling a distro.

Thanks. Can you elaborate? If I wanted to remove Linux and only boot into Windows, that wouldn't be possible?

yancek · 12-25-2017, 12:51 PM

You wouldn't "remove Mint", you would simply format that partition from windows which you can do with Disk Management. Re-installing Mint or Ubuntu, you would have to select the same partition the current Mint is on to install to.

wheedwhackerjones · 12-25-2017, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by yancek

You wouldn't "remove Mint", you would simply format that partition from windows which you can do with Disk Management. Re-installing Mint or Ubuntu, you would have to select the same partition the current Mint is on to install to.

Got it. So formatting that partition would prevent the boot loader from giving me an option of which OS to boot upon turning the computer on? It would just boot straight into Windows?

syg00 · 12-25-2017, 04:21 PM

Presuming a UEFI Win10 machine, no. You would need to change the default boot manager back to the Win10 supplied one - should be an option to do that when you go into the UEFI menus (similar to the old BIOS menus).