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Install from CD without running LiveCD?

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Is there a way to install Bianca without first running the LiveCD? What I mean is, I have the iso on CD, but I'd like to just install it without first running the LiveCD version. I didn't see anything in the choices to do this, but maybe I'm just missing something. I currently have Ubuntu Dapper installed, but I haven't tweaked it much, so I'd like to just install Bianca instead.

The computer is an older laptop - P-II vintage with only 128MB of RAM. I had to use the Ubuntu alternate-i386 version originally. Last night the Bianca LiveCD would almost finish, but not quite. I tried the LiveCD on a newer computer and it worked fine, so I know the disc is good.

Any suggestions are appreciated. I'm looking forward to using this version and am appreciative of the efforts that went into creating it.

Thanks,

Tom
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Post by thartley »

Thank you for the reply.

I should admit that I'm a newbie with Linux. I stumbled onto the Mint group here a few days ago while looking for a way to get an Airlink AWLC3026 PCMCIA wireless adapter to work with Ubuntu. I had already added Automatix to Ubuntu.

Bianca has the drivers for this card, Ubuntu doesn't. I tried to add Mint's repository, but I must have made an error because it didn't want to work correctly. It said it couldn't find certain things. I don't recall now what the actual problems were. I thought maybe I had to install Bianca in order to get the drivers. I'd be glad to try it again and post the messages.

I would mainly like to add the Airlink drivers from Bianca, but I also like the features of the MintDesk. If there is a way to get both those things without a full install, I'd be okay with that.

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Post by thartley »

I added the linuxmint repository to sources.list and reloaded synaptic. I found the listing for mintwifi. Tried to add it but I got an error message:

Depends: ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 but it is not installable
Depends: ndiswrapper-utils-1.8 but it is not installable

I searched synaptic for ndiswrapper and found three things.

ndisgtk 0.6-0ubuntu1
ndiswrapper-source 1.8-0ubuntu2
ndiswrapper-utils 1.8-0ubuntu2

I added them and tried it again. Still no luck. Same error message. I verified that ndisgtk and ndiswrapper was installed, but it only shows the 1.8 version installed. I couldn't find the 1.1 version.

What do you make of this?

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Post by thartley »

Hi Mintero,

I tried your suggestion, but when I highlight ndiswrapper-utils under the Package column and then pull down the Package pulldown, the Force Version choice is grayed out. I checked the Help section for this as well, following the steps again, but met with the same result. At one point I even uninstalled the ndiswrapper stuff and reinstalled it just to see if I could get more choices.

Do you think this could be the result of using the Ubuntu alternate-i386 installation instead of the full version?

I'm trying all this on an older IBM 770X Thinkpad. At this point it would be easier to just pick up a different PCMCIA card that is known to work, but I don't like to throw in the towel, since Mint has the capability to work with the present card.

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Post by thartley »

Hi mintero,

I edited the menu.lst file. It took a couple of trys before I realized I had to hold down the ESC key while booting to get the version choices to show up. Unfortunately, the only choices I have are 2.6.15-28-386, 2.6.15-27-386 and 2.6.15-26-386. It says my version of GRUB is 0.97.

Is it looking more like an issue with the Ubuntu alternate-i386 version?

Tom
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Post by clem »

Hi,

The LiveCD is unfortunately the only way to install Linux Mint so far.

Clem
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Post by psycosmyth »

thank you Clem!
Can't wait for the KD(XFC)E versions.
Gnome is a booger on this older laptop. I got it to boot one time. I can't install it. I did put it on my desktop though.
An alternate would be nice for Cassandra.
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