[Closed]Mint 11 hangs on requirements screen

[jk121960]

HI, To make a long story short, my daughters wanted me to install Linux so I said ok, box has windows 7 already installed so I set up a dual boot gave 200 gig /root and 50 gig swap (large I know but 2TB drive) . There is a Gigabyte EP45-UD3L Mobo with 4 gigs of ram and an nvidia GT430 card and a d-link wireless. I started the install and when you get to the part in the beginning where it shows the install requirements, How much disk space etc, the install hangs. I tried multiple times same result. So I said OK, tried Ubuntu 11.04 same result, so I tried Debian 6021 it went in. So it is in the Ubuntu layer or the interaction thereof. I got a hold of a Ubuntu 11.04 Alternate install(text based) and tried that and it went in. The alternate has the text based install. So I was wondering if someone has an idea of what this or is there a text based Mint edition. I want Mint because it is a much more finished desktop product. Hopefully someone has run into this and knows what to do.

thanks

--jerry

[proxima_centauri]

200 gig /root and 50 gig swap (large I know but 2TB drive)

Please delete that SWAP partition and make a new one that is 4GB. There is no reason on the planet that would justify a SWAP partition that large. It only needs to be the equivalent of your RAM for modern computers.
Unfortunately, there is no text-based alternate installer for Linux Mint

[sagirfahmid3]

50 gig swap (large I know but 2TB drive)

LOLZ! Dude, unless you have like 16MB RAM, the 50GB of swap wont really come in handy. Besides, 2GB of swap works fine for a computer with 3GB RAM.

Wow, lol this was funny...50GB of swap....
No offence lol, but make it like 4GB max if you have like 8GB or higher. Swap=paging file (I think), so it takes a long time for it to write to the harddrive and it will slow down your harddrive's performance (if you have less than 512MB of RAM).

[jk121960]

Truthfully the reason the swap is that big is that was the left over space after I divided the device up in as many partitions as possible. I realize it don't need it and I have never seen more then a couple of mg in it. But are you serious about the size making it fail?

thanks --jerry

[sagirfahmid3]

No no, the swap file didn't make the installation fail, its something else, but swap should be between 1GB to 4GB (or 8GB if your RAM is like 16GB).