Mint 14.1 Mate installation crashes

[AndrejaKo]

Hi!

I'm trying to install Min on an old laptop (compaq nx9005) and I'm having problems with installation program. The live DVD boots, I get desktop and network connectivity, start the install linux mint on desktop, go through questions, set up partitions and get to the part where I'm waiting for it to finish copying files.

At that point, right after line calculating files to skip is shown, the window minimizes and then disappears. Mouse cursor keeps showing the busy circle.


Any ideas what to do or where any possible error messages could have been stored?

Also the disk passes the integrity check on the laptop.

[austin.texas]

There may be a way to make Mint 14.1 work, but the first thing I would do, personally, is to try an older version of Mint - like Mint 9 LTS ( Isadora ), since you are dealing with an older computer.

[AndrejaKo]

Thanks for the tip! GNOME 3 chased me away from GNU/Linux, so I'm not up to date with current developments.

Anyway since stores are closed here and I'm out of DVDs, I'll struggle for a bit more with the newest version. Right now, I decided to leave wizard at timezone selection until copying finishes and it's producing results. According to the bar at the bottom, setup is nearly 75% done.

UPDATE: After it finished copying files, I went to on to complete the wizard. After setting up username and hostname, installation crashed again.