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Did you try Kiwipaul's suggestion (Disable your HDD in the bios or unplug it so that you only have your Ventoy boot disk and your USB for the Mint installation)? No, I did not. By using "Something else", I have installed Mint on my SATA HDD and USB HDD without a hitch and without disablin...

Five hours has passed. It remains unchanged. I am giving up.

Four hours and thirty minutes has passed.

Four hours has passed.

Disable your SSD in the bios or unplug it so that you only have your Ventrot boot disk and your USB for the Mont installation. When you install make sure that the install cannot see your SSD or any other drive that you want to protect. I believe the problem lies in my LanKxin USB stick. The install...

Three hours and thirty minutes has passed.

Three hours has passed.

PS: in the screen copy with Gparted, I see a green box with the text mapper/ventoy1. What is this? Are you using LVM? Why you did not follow my suggestion to erase everything on the pendrive and let the LM installer do the job? I booted my PC from the Mint ISO file on the SanDisk Ventoy device. I d...

Two hours and thirty minutes has passed. The problem should lie in the USB stick.

One hour and six minutes has passed. It is still copying files.

I clicked on "Install Now" on the above screen.
Installation is in progress at this moment.
It has been copying files extremely slowly. I don't know why.
37 minutes has passed. It is still copying files as shown below:

If LM is the only operating system you want to run and all data can be lost on the pen drive, then I suggest you choose "Erase disk and install Linux Mint" during the installation procedure in the documentation below: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.h...

Wilop91 wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:16 am erase only the Linux partitions, i.e. 2, 3 and 5

Just erased. See below:


Now, there is 110 GB of unallocated space. Note that LanKxin is shown as "/dev/sdb" above.

I understand SDC (your USB pendrive where you want to install LM) already contains a Operating System (UOS?) and a NTFS partition, so there is no free space left. Your understanding is wrong. On LanKxin, the UOS partition is a raw partition, and the NTFS partition is empty, so there is a lot of fre...

My PC is still in a live session. I have just taken the following screenshot, which shows the LanKxin drive:

I'm confused - both are USB pendrives? Yes, both are USB flash drives. The SanDisk drive is a Ventoy device, while the LanKxin drive is the one in question. In post #1 you gave the result of LSBLK which shows a drive SDA (465.8G) and another drive SDB (117.2G). Those results were obtained after boo...

Last week, I ran a speed test on the 128-GB LanKxin drive in question.
The results were normal. See: https://www.tenforums.com/performance-m ... ost2564071
Post #21 there was written by me.

Are you trying to install LM on a pendrive it was booted from? No, I am not trying to install Mint on a USB drive from which my PC has been booted. I am trying to install Mint on a 128-GB drive when my PC has been booted from a 64-GB drive. The 128-GB drive is a product of LanKxin, a Chinese compan...

Mint is currently running from the SATA HDD. Hours ago, I tried to install Mint on a 128-GB USB stick. The installation got stuck on the following screen: Got stuck.jpg I believe that the problem lay in the USB stick because the installation of another distro had also got stuck. Is it possible to fi...

If the person you are helping wants things to work without having to do any adjustments, that may not be possible at this time, but they can try with Ubuntu 23.04 and see. That has the 6.2 kernel. I am sorry to say that the person has given up because s/he already tried multiple versions of Ubuntu,...