Trying to install Mint on the backup presentation laptop at work from a DVD, I've tried 3 times and it always fails during install with an I/O error - could be the CD drive, could be the HDD. I'm trying to install from USB to narrow it down, but when I use Linux Live USB Creator (with default settings, - format on, hide files on, Windows launch off) to make a bootable flash drive, when I try to start Live mode OR the installer from it I always get a kernel panic.
The DVD I was trying is almost new, clean, passes live verification. Everything seems to work fine except that it always fails during install.
And no, Mint doesn't come with a tool to make a bootable USB drive from the LiveCD like Ubuntu does.
I have better luck using unetbootin to create USB sticks. Works on Linux and windows.
mint uses hybrid iso files that can be burned directly to the USB uing mintStick. To do it the "old fashioned way" do this:
To figure out your device:
sudo fdisk -l
To write it... replace /dev/sdx with whatever it really is then:
sudo dd if=~/Desktop/linuxmint.iso of=/dev/sdx oflag=direct bs=1048576
To do it the newfangled way... with the live DVD booted to your machine... (or from another one) Launch "USB Image Writer" from the menu, select your ISO image and your USB device and press "Write to device".
Also... use mint debian because it's real debian linux and not Ubuntu 2.0.
Huh didn't know that, I'll try the iso-to-usb imaging and see if that works.
I was thinking about trying unetbootin but I figured if this app specifically supports the distro I'm using and it still doesn't work, there might be something else wrong.
GameboyRMH wrote:
Huh didn't know that, I'll try the iso-to-usb imaging and see if that works.
I was thinking about trying unetbootin but I figured if this app specifically supports the distro I'm using and it still doesn't work, there might be something else wrong.
One note... they started using hybrids at mint 12.x release candidates so ... if you are trying to install anything before 13 you might have problems.
Nope trying to install 17. Still copying .iso onto to another flash drive...
Imaging the .iso file to the USB stick worked, got the live desktop running now!
Woohoo installed successfully! So I guess something's wrong with the CD drive on this thing.
Sorry I was late to the party, but I've been out of the Linux scene for a while now. Glad to see that my old standby dd still works.
