Feedback on LMDE installation

[cedric12]

Hi all,

I am relatively new to Linux and had decided this morning to switch from Mint 17.2 to LMDE Betsy. I knew it might be complicated, but maybe not as much...! Here's a feedback of the difficulties I had to overcome during installation

• After wiping my hardrive and while the installer was copying files, I encountered an ERRN5 INPUT/OUTPUT error. I believe it happened when I plugged the AC chord while it was copying the files (although I was around 40% battery). The installer crashed, and all subsequent tries gave the same error. I came to believe that the USB key was corrupt. I fiddled around a bit, and for some reason after a system restart the installation went through to the end.
• I successfully restarted and was met with the login screen, where I happily entered the credentials I had just created, thinking my troubles were over. But my credentials were systematically refused. I tried with Ctrl Alt F2, all refused as well. I booted once again onto the usb key and did a fresh install with new credentials thinking i'd been stupid enough to mistype the password. Same thing on second try... after some searching on Debian wikis, I successfully added a new user from the recovery mode and was able to login from this. I noticed that there was no other user (meaning none had been created during installation!) and that my root password was working when asked by the terminal in recovery mode. Strange.
• Now I have a problem with software render mode being shown on cinnamon start.. I understand it has to do with intel drivers not being installed, however I have not yet found how to install them on a debian based distro
• The boot sequence still shows me the login screen although I've checked automatic login from the users and groups page.

It would be a good thing to have some info that is not covered by the guides such as:

• What are the minimum sizes for partitions, what formats are recommended for efi/boot, etc...
• some basic steps to get everything working when coming from linux mint

I'll post again if I'm stuck with the remaining problems above.

thanks for the good work

[kevinthefixer]

First, what hardware are you installing on? Easy way to check that is to post output of inxi in terminal.

Second, I recommend formatting and/or repartitioning your HDD(s) with the live-CD (you should be able to access gparted from the menu, if not, install it with software manager while still running in live-CD), and reinstalling the system from scratch. It's obvious that SOMETHING went awry, probably because of the power thing. I'd start with the cord already plugged in this time.

[cedric12]

Hi!
Here's the inxi output:

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CPU~Dual core Intel 5Y10 (-HT-MCP-) clocked at Min:800.117Mhz Max:1129.765Mhz 
Kernel~3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 
Up~20 min 
Mem~1102.9/3866.7MB 
HDD~128.0GB(7.0% used) 
Procs~182 
Graphics:  Card: Intel Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 256 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes

I just tried to update the kernel to 4.3 but reverted back because it broke wifi while not solving the software render mode....
I'm not sure a new install would solve it, just found this similar hardware which has the same problem... !
I believe it is a driver problem... I'm not sure how to proceed for a debian based distro, all the guides I find are ubuntu/mint based.

[EDIT] Turns out I cannot install the headers, i always get

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Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.3.0-040300-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.59/build/make.log for more information.

might be why it broke wifi. Tried it with liquorix kernels and impossible to install headers as well

[killer de bug]

Since cedric12 has created a new topic to solve his problem, I close this one in order to avoid cross responses.
Please continue reading here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 9&t=209754