mint 14 install

[sonic67]

I have been trying to get the 32bit version of mint 14 Cinnamon installed and its a no go and i dont know why. ive tried mate as well and it wont install ether. the live cd on both work fine but when i try to install with Cinnamon version it gets to the asking about how to partion disk screen and the picture looks like the vertical hold went out, just a screen full of lines and you cant see anything to choose to continue. ive been running mint 13 Cinnamon version with no problems what so ever and i got the mint 14 64bit Cinnamon to install just fine. so any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

amd athlon 64 3500+ cpu
2 gig ram
ati radeon x800se video card

[Dngrsone]

Any particular reason why you want to use 32-bit on a 64-bit processor?

[sonic67]

no theres no particular reason its just all the distros i use is 32 bit but if its no big deal with the 64 bit i wont worry about it. i was just trying to figure out why i couldnt get the 32 bit to work is all. ive only got 2 gig of ram on this computer so i didnt think the 64 bit would be any inprovment on performance everything ive read about 64 bit os's is there better with 3 gig of ram and anything under that should use 32 bit os's. im from windows xp user so still leaning on the linux stuff.

[Dngrsone]

Well, the 2GB of memory won't really help you in the 64-bit OS, that is true...

I see where you are coming from, though-- why do you get that video issue...?

Have you tried a non-Ubuntu distro, 32-bit? Maybe the default video driver is not happy with your hardware.

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[sonic67]

im running mint 13 cinn. now and its working great. i installed it when it came out with no problems. thats why i thought 14 cinn. would install with no problems but it didnt. and nether did the mate version. on this computer i have ubuntu,xubuntu,edubuntu, kubuntu 12.04 Lts,fuduntu,opensuse,fedora17,bodhi,mephis 11,watt 12.04 or 01,trisquel,salax,peppermint 3,gnewsence. sorry ive been playing with alot of distros. only thing i was wondering if it could be the differance in the cinn.version. now the other thing i thought about was doing the back porting thing with the mint 13 but didnt know how well that would go. and by the way all of these distros are 32 bit. sorry had to add this on when i got the video issue was after i started the install. it got past the part of telling me that i needed atleast 5 gig of hard drive and connection to the internet then as soon as it was changing to the next screen thats when it went all haywire. but i was running them in live mode just fine and everything was working. no problems with the video. so i cant figure it out yet but hope too.

[Dngrsone]

Hrm... Did you happen to verify the MD5 hash on your download?

I recall having problems getting a good download of 12.04 from within Ubuntu at one point...had to actually boot Windows to download and burn the .iso for a usable CD.

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[sonic67]

yea that was one thing i thought of today and rechecked the md5 again and it checked ok on both distros.

[sonic67]

well i tried all the versions of the mint 14 32 bit distros and see if that made a differance and it is still no luck. if anyone thinks it might be a video problem here is my video specs under mint 13 cinn. plus other info about my computer that might be relevent i hope.
william@william-T6524 ~ $ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI R423 UK [Radeon X800SE (PCIE)]
X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1280x1024@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI R423 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Memory 2060MB (755MB used)
Operating System Linux Mint 13 Maya
User Name william (william)
Date/Time Thu 13 Dec 2012 08:26:23 PM EST
Multimedia
Audio Adapter EMU10K1 - SB Live! 5.1
Input Devices
Power Button
Power Button
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Rocketfish Apple Mouse

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.2.0-23-generic (i686)
Compiled #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:41:14 UTC 2012
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
Distribution Linux Mint 13 Maya
Kernel Modules
Loaded Modules
nls_iso8859_1
nls_cp437
vfat VFAT filesystem support
fat
rfcomm Bluetooth RFCOMM ver 1.11
bnep Bluetooth BNEP ver 1.3
bluetooth Bluetooth Core ver 2.16
binfmt_misc
snd_emu10k1_synth Routines for control of EMU10K1 WaveTable synth
snd_emux_synth Routines for control of EMU WaveTable chip
snd_seq_virmidi Virtual Raw MIDI client on Sequencer
snd_seq_midi_emul Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI emulation.
ppdev
snd_emu10k1 EMU10K1
snd_ac97_codec Universal interface for Audio Codec '97
ac97_bus
snd_pcm Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
snd_page_alloc Memory allocator for ALSA system.
snd_util_mem Generic memory management routines for soundcard memory allocation
snd_hwdep Hardware dependent layer
snd_seq_midi Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer MIDI synth.
snd_rawmidi Midlevel RawMidi code for ALSA.
snd_seq_midi_event MIDI byte <-> sequencer event coder
snd_seq Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sequencer.
snd_timer ALSA timer interface
snd_seq_device ALSA sequencer device management
snd Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
k8temp AMD K8 core temperature monitor
serio_raw Raw serio driver
emu10k1_gp EMU10k1 gameport driver
soundcore Core sound module
gameport Generic gameport layer
i2c_piix4 PIIX4 SMBus driver
radeon ATI Radeon
joydev Joystick device interfaces
ttm TTM memory manager subsystem (for DRM device)
drm_kms_helper DRM KMS helper
drm DRM shared core routines
i2c_algo_bit I2C-Bus bit-banging algorithm
parport_pc PC-style parallel port driver
mac_hid
ati_agp
lp
parport
firewire_ohci Driver for PCI OHCI IEEE1394 controllers
usbhid USB HID core driver
8139too RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet driver
firewire_core Core IEEE1394 transaction logic
usb_storage USB Mass Storage driver for Linux
hid
8139cp RealTek RTL-8139C+ series 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver
crc_itu_t CRC ITU-T V.41 calculations
pata_atiixp low-level driver for ATI IXP200/300/400
sata_sil low-level driver for Silicon Image SATA controller

[sonic67]

well finally got mint 14 32bit to install. had to go around robin hoods barn to do it, installed the xfce distro and changed it to the cinnamon version. so far its running good so we'll see what happens.