Linux Mint Installation Guide
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Re: Linux Mint Installation Guide
Oh wow, it looks great. Thanks!
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yep - - that does look much better, and I've come across that web site, a few times now,
& so it seems to be getting the promotion as well.
& so it seems to be getting the promotion as well.
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Fantastic!
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Super cool !
The new guide looks sleek and I'm sure it's going to attract more users by giving more confidence.
Some comments though on the "EFI troubleshooting" section
- "For technical reasons Linux Mint uses ubuntu as its EFI boot name." but in the screenshots and the explanations, there is a boot entry called "linuxmint". This is a bit confusing.
Also most users who have troubles dual-booting (at least for those reporting on the forum) are dual-booting with windows. What about remaking the screenshots in a windows/linux case ? where the entries are just 'Windows boot manager' and 'ubuntu'
(I would do these screenshots but (un)fortunately I dont have windows on any of my machines)
- it could be good to add some further pointers for some machines where fixing the boot order from live USB is not sufficient:
* on most machines, go into windows, open an administrative command prompt and
* on acer laptops, go into BIOS and select shimx64.efi as trusted for executing https://itsfoss.com/no-bootable-device-found-ubuntu/
* on HP laptops, make fake windows boot files as in this post by administrollaattori viewtopic.php?f=42&t=243338&p=1300722
Many of the problems reported to the "Installation & Boot" subforum can be solved by one of these three techniques
Edit: I made a fork on github, added the changes mentioned in the second bullet above, plus added a link on how to disable secure boot, and created a pull request. Feel free to rewrite it if necessary.
The new guide looks sleek and I'm sure it's going to attract more users by giving more confidence.
Some comments though on the "EFI troubleshooting" section
- "For technical reasons Linux Mint uses ubuntu as its EFI boot name." but in the screenshots and the explanations, there is a boot entry called "linuxmint". This is a bit confusing.
Also most users who have troubles dual-booting (at least for those reporting on the forum) are dual-booting with windows. What about remaking the screenshots in a windows/linux case ? where the entries are just 'Windows boot manager' and 'ubuntu'
(I would do these screenshots but (un)fortunately I dont have windows on any of my machines)
- it could be good to add some further pointers for some machines where fixing the boot order from live USB is not sufficient:
* on most machines, go into windows, open an administrative command prompt and
bcdedit /set "{bootmgr}" path \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi* on acer laptops, go into BIOS and select shimx64.efi as trusted for executing https://itsfoss.com/no-bootable-device-found-ubuntu/
* on HP laptops, make fake windows boot files as in this post by administrollaattori viewtopic.php?f=42&t=243338&p=1300722
Many of the problems reported to the "Installation & Boot" subforum can be solved by one of these three techniques
Edit: I made a fork on github, added the changes mentioned in the second bullet above, plus added a link on how to disable secure boot, and created a pull request. Feel free to rewrite it if necessary.
Last edited by fabien85 on Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:52 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Linux Mint Installation Guide
Thanks, Clem. Nicely done!
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Re: Linux Mint Installation Guide
Read the Docs:
Nice piece of work everything under hand reach.
One thing I miss is the reference to the local forums ?
Forked version linuxmint/doc-installation-guide and created an pull request
Nice piece of work everything under hand reach.
One thing I miss is the reference to the local forums ?
Forked version linuxmint/doc-installation-guide and created an pull request
Last edited by Gruppo Sportivo on Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Looks great Thank YOU!
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Linux Mint Installation Guide: http://linuxmint-installation-guide.rea ... en/latest/
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Thank you Clem
If I have helped you solve a problem, please add [SOLVED] to your first post title, it helps other users looking for help, and keeps the forum clean.
I am using Mint 19.1 Cinnamon 64 bit with AMD A8/7410 processor . Memory 8GB
I am using Mint 19.1 Cinnamon 64 bit with AMD A8/7410 processor . Memory 8GB