I been blocked for some reason

[xxgeek]

Tried to post a new thread about installing Linux for Rod.

Got a message to email site owner to find out why.

Got an email address for me, or an answer? What did I do wrong?


There are many Linux distributions. I prefer Linux Mint myself. It's stable; It's Debian based. With Ubuntu on top.

Download the this iso of Linux Mint Cinnamon.
mirrors.seas.harvard.edu/linuxmint/stable/20.3/linuxmint-20.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso

Burn the ISO to a USB stick (I use github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v3.19/rufus-3.19p.exe in Windows) make sure you make it bootable.
It is the portable version, no install.


If you are new to Linux do what I do. Play it safe.
You CAN dual boot, and be presented with a menu at boot time.
BUT, I like to play it safe, because I have lost my Windows install more than once by making mistakes so now I play it SAFE.

Buy a new drive. SSD etc are faster. Shut your PC down and unplug it.
Plug the new drive into the motherboard (I unplug my DVD, or CD rom drive and use that port, but if you have a spare port, use that.

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This is where you "play it safe" #
UNPLUG YOUR WINDOWS DRIVE #
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Plug the USB stick with Linux Mint into a USB port
Adjust your bios settings to boot into the USB stick
Plug the PC in and turn it on and boot into the USB stick. Do the Live Install in Menu that appears.
It will boot to a LIVE Mint Desktop.
There will be an icon on desktop to "INSTALL Linux Mint" or similar.
Click it and do the install. Allow install of Propietary Software when prompted.
Erase drive when asked where to install.
Answer questions as it installs (Username, location etc)
Wait for install to complete.

Reboot when prompted

Then open a terminal (Black window icon at bottom left on taskbar.)

When installing answer "yes" to any additional installs like Grecko mono etc.
goto wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
Do as instructed from installing i386 support to repository key and updating etc

Follow instructions for Linux Mint 20x
and use "Stable" version line

Wine is now installed.
When you click an exe file like say the JB or Liberty install exe WINE takes over and installs it, or RUNS the exe file.

Good Luck Rod
Once you have it working, Plug your Windows drive back in (PC off and unplugged of course)

So Basically
1 -Download the Mint Cinnamon iso file
2 -Burn it to USB stick and make it bootable
3 -Unplug Windows drive, plug in another drive
4 -Boot into USB - use live option in boot menu
5 -install Mint to new drive
6 -install WINE
7 -install JB or Liberty
8 -Plug Windows drive in
9 -Use BIOS boot options to choose OS to boot into.

You can make it a dual boot later if you wish, but there are risks.

[xxgeek]

I can post again now, so no need for an email address or explanation. Must have been something I copied from WINE site.

[Rod]

No blocking at this end. I have tried parallels on a Mac but it is an expensive way to get JB running on a Mac, buggy too and the directory structures are foreign to me. So I gave up.

Now I know some folks use Linux and that run through will help those folks try JB. So thanks.

I won’t be trying it myself, my Windows installation is too precious.

[xxgeek]

I believe the blocking was due to a copyright issue. I had copied line for line all the commands needed so there was no confusion as to what command lines were needed to install WINE. Once I erased those lines and pointed to the WINE site instead all was good. Can't be sure on that just assuming.

Rod you could try using a virtual machine to install Linux using the ISO file and then install WINE, and JB into that.
That way Windows would be safe.

There is also MXLinux. A great distro for making a USB live OS with persistence. The OS is on the USB stick as a Live environment and persistence allows installing programs directly to the USB stick, keeping Windows safe as well. Linux is very versatile, do some searches I'm sure you'll find a way.

"Where there's a will there's a way"