mint@mint terminal when trying to install

[chadlangford]

Hello all:

I'm trying to switch from Kuki to Mint. I used unetbootin to get the iso on a USB, and tried to install it by pressing F2 after restarting, and having the computer boot from the USB. It gives me the following options:

Default, Start Linux Mint, Start Linux Mint (compatibility mode), Check the integrity of the CD, Memory test, and Boot from local drive.

Everywhere I've looked online it says to go with "start linux mint." When I do this, I end up with a black terminal screen that just says, "Welcome to Linux Mint 12 Lisa" with "mint@mint ~$" under it.

I've looked it up every way I could think to, but I cannot find a solution of how to install Mint 12 from here. Every tutorial says that it should install automatically, or bring you to a desktop where you click on an install icon.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

[remoulder]

Have you tried the compatibility mode, does the USB boot work on a different PC, have you run the check for errors, did you check the MD5sum on the downloaded .ISO?

[chadlangford]

1) compatibility mode does the same thing.
2) I don't own another PC.
3) I did check the integrity, it showed everything was fine.
4) I don't know what an MD5..... is. Or how I would check it. I'll look it up now.

I tried to install Mint 11 for the heck of it, and it installed flawlessly. tried 12 again, and same problem. So, I have Mint 11 now...

I found this other post, that actually describes my problem exactly (except I used a CD iso file, not DVD).. but no solution was ever posted for it, which is a bit concerning.

I'm having the most frustrating issue.

I installed the Linux Mint 12 32 bit DVD iso file to a USB drive using UNetbootin and when I attempt to boot from it on my acer Aspire One netbook, It boots into command line. Where I expect to have a linux mint desktop I have the characteristic UNetbootin menu with the following message underneath:

Welcome to Linux Mint 12 Lisa (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686)

Welcome to Linux Mint
*Documentation: http://www.linuxmint.com

mint@mint ~$

When I type 'startx' I get the fatal error "no screens found." It does this in and out of compatibility mode. I've run Mint 9, 10, and 11 on this machine (currently have Mint 11 installed to the hard disk), all installed from a USB containing the 32 bit DVD iso created with UNetbootin. The processor is an Intel Atom processor with 2gb of RAM and a 500gb hard drive, so I don't see where hardware could be the problem as this falls well within the system requirements.

[kvm857er]

I encountered the same problem trying to install Linux Mint 12 LXDE CD 32-bit in virtualbox.

I haven't installed it yet, but JohnYate in this post got into the desktop by typing "sudo lxdm".

It worked for me for the release that I got.

I hope it helps.

[harlekein]

I'm having the same problem on Asus 1101ha

When I type lxdm I get:

The program 'lxdm' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install lxdm

Of course, that doesn't work since I haven't configured networking yet. I am trying to do that following these steps:
http://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-a-Wireles ... mmand-Line

But nothing happens after I type the final command: sudo dhclient wlan0

I tried several other options after googling, but not getting much results and I'm feeling I'm getting derailed from my original goal: Performing an easy linux install.

[adam100]

I've encountered this issue too but have found a solution that consistently works for me, hopefully it will for others too.

1. power on the machine, hold the shift key down
2. after the bios menu, the grub boot menu should come up
3. one of the options is "install linux mint"
4. highlight this and press 'e'
5. this will reveal a line of text near the bottom of the screen, the last words will be something like 'no splash quiet --'
6. at the very end, add the following: 'nomodeset'
7. press 'ctrl-x'
8. this should hopefully take you to a workable installation screen / the mint desktop
9. if you get back to the mint@mint terminal again, trying typing 'startx'

If none of this works, the issue may be your graphics card drivers aren't working properly with mint. This was actually the case with me. I have an AMD/ATI card and I had to locate the appropriate latest drivers and install them from the terminal however if all this starts to sound a bit sketchy, you probably want to lay off at this point.