Installing Mint 10 Dual Boot Windows 7 Different Problem

[tolson83]

Hello I am also attempting to install linux mint dual boot with my windows 7 i downloaded the image burned it to a disc use it to live boot and then attempt to install. However every time i get to the screen "who you are" the installation stops atleast I think the bar stops moving and i have no option to move forward this happens everytime and i have tried different discs

[seeley]

Hi tolson83!
The first questions in such a case are the following:
1. Which distribution did you download? From where?
2. Did you check md5sum?
3. Which program did you use to burn your CD (or DVD?)?
The burning speed should be minimal and the CD should be checked by the burning program.
You had a message: success?
seeley

[tolson83]

I downloaded Mint 10 and burned with imgburn and did a disc verify. Also before running the disk i used the option to test the integrity of the disc and it passed I tried a cd and a dvd it gets passed the point of copying files and then says ready when you are... at that point the forward button is still grayed out and I have no where to go

[dmj99]

This may not help, but I've had a number of installation problems when there has been a usb drive inserted in the computer (or other memory card). Remove these and try again.

DeeJay

[seeley]

Hi!
I would burn a PartedMagic live CD (see link below); it contains GParted, the best partitioning editor and other useful tools. With GParted you can get informations and edit partitions.
seeley

[wayne128]

Hi tolson83!

Now that you said you have a known good CD yet your installation stopped at some place.
Lets take a look at your hard disk partition layout, just so others can check if there is something that prevent gparted from working
On terminal, type in sudo fdisk -l <enter>, key in password, post your results ( with everything on your screen after the command).
below is part of mine just for you to see it as reference, this is one drive, if there is more than one drive, all will appear.

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wayne@wayne-Inspiron-580s ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for wayne: 

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x98000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 12 96358+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 13 1110 8818795 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1111 36806 286720000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 36806 63526 214629460 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 36806 37201 3173896+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 37202 39126 15461035 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 39127 41051 15462531 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 41052 43014 15767766 83 Linux

[lauren]

Hi!
Yes, GParted is the best partition editor, to get the best result I use the latest edition, it's 0.7.0.4, as far as I know, only available as *.iso (see link below), not part of PartedMagic ore any linux distribution.
lauren