On Saturday 31 December 2016 22:29:07 Felmon Davis wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 31 December 2016 17:56:59 Felmon Davis wrote: > >> 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. > > I think I am. > > > 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? TDE does not always go well with KDE 4+. I personally tend to avoid putting those two together. But others will know more about this than I do. One can certainly normally install extra DEs, but this may be a case where it does not go well, both for the reason I have given and because the two (DE and OS) do appear to be rather entangled in this case. > > I figured I should format a partition and do an install of Trinity > (ok, debian + trinity). That might be simpler, so long as you are clear that Debian with Trinity is not the same thing as an OS called 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. It does for now. It went through a phase of having LXDE available as well. This strikes me as a good choice. Named after a rather beautiful place, too! But you are still installing an OS and a DE, and could install other additional DEs after installation if you wished. > > thanks for clearing my mind about an aspect of this. > > so I can install OS and Trinity on separate partition. Yes. > > or (?) install Trinity on top of NetRunner. In general one can, but I fear that this may be the exception that proves the rule. :-( Anyone?? I don't know NetRunner, and had to look it up. I am always cautious about mixing any version of KDE and Trinity. To do so would certainly not muck up your mbr, but it might muck up your NetRunner! Lisi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
