in short, alot of answers are located here:
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/HOWTOs
Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
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Re: Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
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Re: Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
What have you tried on your own and in which way did it fail?
Remember, we learn a lot from our failures.
Remember, we learn a lot from our failures.
Re: Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
I may not be the best person to advise you, especially with GRUB, but I'm not 100% sure / is what you should pick.
Instead, try choosing the drive (say, sdb) in the list, not sdb# (sdb1 or whatever).
Is Linux the only thing on the (hard?) drive, or is it a USB flash drive?
Instead, try choosing the drive (say, sdb) in the list, not sdb# (sdb1 or whatever).
Is Linux the only thing on the (hard?) drive, or is it a USB flash drive?
Re: Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
That's fine, but I was wondering if you were dealing with other things still on the drive or whether it is blank, freshly formatted.
Re: Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
Do a new install, and when you get to this page:
Click the
But if you want or have the ability to boot directly from the USB drive, (which will let you bring along your drive to friends to show off. ) you should choose to install
atlef.
Click the
button and select to installAdvanced
to your first drive (should be sda) if you want to choose between booting Mint and Windows.Grub
But if you want or have the ability to boot directly from the USB drive, (which will let you bring along your drive to friends to show off. ) you should choose to install
to the USB. (Which should be the last drive in that list shown in the pull down menu.)Grub
atlef.
Re: Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
I'll cross my fingers.
atlef.
atlef.
Re: Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
This indicates that grub is in the wrong place. Could you do
atlef.
and post the output here?sudo fdisk -l
atlef.
Re: Newbie : Need a step by step guide to installing LinuxMint 7
Sorry about that.
Boot the live CD and run that in a terminal.
atlef.
Boot the live CD and run that in a terminal.
atlef.