On 16/03/2020 15:20, John wrote:
Thanks.

I am foggy on this....

9. Boot and install linux on the SSD.

The machine boots up from a USB stick (pen drive).
The SSD is empty as it has just been swappped intohte HDDs location.
The Linux Mint image is on the UB stick.

So, just copy the image over from the USB stick drive onto the SSD?

No.
When you boot Mint it actually boots a full blown linux that runs from
RAM and the boot media.

It has a preconfigured menu that allows you to either play with linux,
use it to do system hardware checks etc or install itself.
You just click on that option, tell it to use the whole disk, who you
are, where you are and it does everything else automagically.

Once installed it will allow you to do updates to latest patches and so on.


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