Extracting/burning Linux Mint 19 ISO to DVD

[locohombre]

Hi, I have been running Mint 18.1 on my laptop for a while, and I've decided to upgrade to Mint 19. I downloaded the 19 ISO but can't get it to extract/burn properly to a DVD. It just pops up a weird dialog box that wants to extract it directly to my HDD and doesn't recognize the DVD. I tried search and got 600 hits that had nothing to do with my question. Also, how would I go about extracting the ISO to a thumb drive? I want a bootable 19 thumb drive in addition to a bootable DVD. I have been using Mint 18.1 since April 2017 but I hardly ever use the forums since I'm a really casual user-net surfing and Libre Office is about the extent of what I do. My box is a HP 635 laptop.

Loco

[all41]

Do not extract files from the .iso
Burn the .iso to a dvd or usb as an image
You can use the USB Image Writer (included in Mint 18.1) to do this.
If you have access to Windows use a utility such as Rufus or Linux Live USB Creator
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

[vansloneker]

So if 18.1 is running satisfactory for you why would you want to upgrade to 19? Not to be impolite or unkind but with what you say you do with it there is no need to upgrade as apart from the cosmetics you will not notice any changes.

[kukamuumuka]

So if 18.1 is running satisfactory for you why would you want to upgrade to 19? Not to be impolite or unkind but with what you say you do with it there is no need to upgrade as apart from the cosmetics you will not notice any changes.

It seems that upgrade to the newest version is part of human activity. We are social animals.

PS. I still use Mint 17.

[all41]

The op was not asking "should I upgrade"?
The Mint 19 .iso is already downloaded and the op needed to burn it to dvd/usb.
Perhaps he wanted to use it in the live desktop mode to make a better
decision as whether to install it, or keep what he has for awhile.

[kukamuumuka]

The op was not asking "should I upgrade"?
The Mint 19 .iso is already downloaded and the op needed to burn it to dvd/usb.
Perhaps he wanted to use it in the live desktop mode to make a better
decision as whether to install it, or keep what he has for awhile.

Yes indeed, my bad.

If burning to DVD, install Xfburn and select "Burn iso" and select the lowest burning speed.

If writing to an USB, I normally use UnetBootin, sometimes Etcher and with problematic cases MX live USB creator, which seems to be the best usb-creator. Unfortunately it works only in MX Linux and antiX.

[locohombre]

So if 18.1 is running satisfactory for you why would you want to upgrade to 19? Not to be impolite or unkind but with what you say you do with it there is no need to upgrade as apart from the cosmetics you will not notice any changes.

Hey, chill. My main reason is that I've noticed that my web browsers (I use Pale Moon in addition to Firefox) are having issues with some websites. Also, there's a bunch of little things like all the weird stuff in my browsing history that won't go away despite my not having used those sites in ages. I use the drop down menus at the top of the browser windows to access favorite sites (as opposed to bookmarking) and what shows in the menus is increasingly disconnected from what my current browsing preferences are. Also, after 18 months and issues such as the above, I've decided to get a fresh start, and since Linux has no keys and such like Microsoft Windows does, why not?

Also, much thanks to all41 for actually answering my question.

[vansloneker]

PaleMoon isn't 100% compatible with all websites indeed. You may want to try Waterfox.
Unless you prevent it to, particularly Firefox will continue tracking and saving your browsing activities, and those can be pretty persistent.
If in Firefox you use a private window (ctrl+ahift+P) for activities you do not want to keep in history, after that window is closed, any history and cookies will be gone.

Good luck installing 19!

[scdbackup]

Hi,

for burning to DVD, you may use this shell commandi, while being in the
directory with the ISO image:

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xorriso -as cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/sr0 linuxmint-19-xfce-64bit-v2.iso

The image linuxmint-19-xfce-64bit-v2.iso is already prepared for booting
from USB stick. So no special unpacker program is needed. Just make sure
that you iuse the right device address, not the one of your system disks.
In this example i assume the USB stick is /dev/sdd:

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dd if=linuxmint-19-xfce-64bit-v2.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4M; sync

Have a nice day

Thomas

[JerryF]

Instructions are found in the Read the documentation area on www.linuxmint.com

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.re ... /burn.html

[locohombre]

I will certainly try Waterfox. Pale Moon was recommended to me on a conservative politics forum as a good alternative to Firefox. On there they believe that Firefox sends your browsing history to a subsidiary of Amazon (Amazon Web Services, I think they called it) every time it's launched, that's what that weird "Connecting..." notice in the tab on launch is doing. Anyway, I use Firefox for any transaction that involves money (Amazon, Ebay, etc) and Pale Moon for social networking and news reading.

Thanks to Thomas/scdbackup for the shell commands. Command line interface is much better than GUI anyway when it comes to in depth technical stuff.

[AZgl1800]

I will certainly try Waterfox. Pale Moon was recommended to me on a conservative politics forum as a good alternative to Firefox. On there they believe that Firefox sends your browsing history to a subsidiary of Amazon (Amazon Web Services, I think they called it) every time it's launched,

I doubt that, from what I read, Mozilla will NOT do that period.

When you log into Amazon, all of the cookies for that site are in use....

[vansloneker]

https://www.askvg.com/tip-disable-telem ... x-quantum/

[scdbackup]

Hi,

the description on
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.re ... /burn.html
could need one or more command line proposals. See
https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-unix for examples of "xorriso" and
"growisofs".

The pointer to Xfburn could need a few words more about the difference
between "New Data Composition" (unsuitable) and "Burn Image" (suitable).

The warning above the Xfburn statement does not help to find the correct
task in Xfburn. (Further the description "it shouldn’t be an empty DVD
containing an .iso file" is an oxymoron. Let's all sing Scarborough Fair.)

Have a nice day

Thomas

[villandra]

Well, when I "burn image", I get an iso file on the cd and not the required list of directories.

Dora