Posted: 12/10/2014 12:42:29 AM EDT
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Try Linux they said. It's so much better than Windows they said. You're a noob. Linux Mint is for you they said. It's not hard to install, just follow the directions and there you are in happy Linux land. BULLSHIT!
Try to boot from a USB - NOPE Try to boot from a liveDVD with my original Windows HDD installed - NOPE Try to boot from a liveDVD with a virgin clean HDD installed - YES! It's working!! It says it's going to Linux Mint!!! - NOPE - Let's get stuck on the pretty white LInux Mint 17.1 screen that does absolutely fuck all. I've tried to try fucking Linux several times and - NOPE NOTHING, ZIP, NADA, BUPKISS!!! I want to grab some Linux geek by his pecker and beat him over the head with a Windows notebook! How do you make this shit work?? Help me please! HOW? MAKE? WORK? |
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Quoted: Try Linux they said. It's so much better than Windows they said. You're a noob. Linux Mint is for you they said. It's not hard to install, just follow the directions and there you are in happy Linux land. BULLSHIT! Try to boot from a USB - NOPE Try to boot from a liveDVD with my original Windows HDD installed - NOPE Try to boot from a liveDVD with a virgin clean HDD installed - YES! It's working!! It says it's going to Linux Mint!!! - NOPE - Let's get stuck on the pretty white LInux Mint 17.1 screen that does absolutely fuck all. I've tried to try fucking Linux several times and - NOPE NOTHING, ZIP, NADA, BUPKISS!!! I want to grab some Linux geek by his pecker and beat him over the head with a Windows notebook! How do you make this shit work?? Help me please! HOW? MAKE? WORK? Have you tried rebooting the computer? |
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Try Linux they said. It's so much better than Windows they said. You're a noob. Linux Mint is for you they said. It's not hard to install, just follow the directions and there you are in happy Linux land. BULLSHIT! Try to boot from a USB - NOPE Try to boot from a liveDVD with my original Windows HDD installed - NOPE Try to boot from a liveDVD with a virgin clean HDD installed - YES! It's working!! It says it's going to Linux Mint!!! - NOPE - Let's get stuck on the pretty white LInux Mint 17.1 screen that does absolutely fuck all. I've tried to try fucking Linux several times and - NOPE NOTHING, ZIP, NADA, BUPKISS!!! I want to grab some Linux geek by his pecker and beat him over the head with a Windows notebook! How do you make this shit work?? Help me please! HOW? MAKE? WORK? Have you tried rebooting the computer? Yes. And I made sure it was plugged in too. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: The ones on the linux mint site where I downloaded the ISO Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Quoted: Quoted: It really is pretty easy. What directions are you following? The ones on the linux mint site where I downloaded the ISO Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Like, something's wrong OP. Installing Linux is so easy it could happen by accident. Can you be more specific on the error(s) you're getting?
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You verify your ISO checksum? Like, something's wrong OP. Installing Linux is so easy it could happen by accident. Can you be more specific on the error(s) you're getting? Quoted:
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It really is pretty easy. What directions are you following? The ones on the linux mint site where I downloaded the ISO Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Like, something's wrong OP. Installing Linux is so easy it could happen by accident. Can you be more specific on the error(s) you're getting? This. I had the same issue and it was a bad download. Checksum didn't match the known kosher one. Downloaded it again and it works like socks on a rooster. |
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What are you using to write the images on the dvds or usb drives? Try another one.
Make sure in your bios that you check the boot order of USB, DVD, then HDD. Try Ubuntu or another distro. If you are installing it on a laptop, sometimes shit just doesn't work right out of the box. Uncommon device drivers aren't likely to come in the distro installs and will require some fucking with. |
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booting to a linux disk can be problematic with UEFI in my experience. Some bios have different boot options for the same device. It's not really problematic, with a UEFI bios you just have to change a bios setting to boot linux. I swapped back and forth two or three times on my Win8 laptop. You have to disable SecureBoot and I changed something else too (which I don't remember what now), although SecureBoot may be all you have to disable or change. |
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You verify your ISO checksum? Like, something's wrong OP. Installing Linux is so easy it could happen by accident. Can you be more specific on the error(s) you're getting? Quoted:
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It really is pretty easy. What directions are you following? The ones on the linux mint site where I downloaded the ISO Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Like, something's wrong OP. Installing Linux is so easy it could happen by accident. Can you be more specific on the error(s) you're getting? It says it's starting and looks like it's starting and gets to a pretty white full screen picture that says linux mint 17.1 & it does nothing else. It sits. And does nothing. Computer is a couple year old asus net book that ran win7 just fine. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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It's not really problematic, with a UEFI bios you just have to change a bios setting to boot linux. I swapped back and forth two or three times on my Win8 laptop. You have to disable SecureBoot and I changed something else too (which I don't remember what now), although SecureBoot may be all you have to disable or change. Quoted:
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booting to a linux disk can be problematic with UEFI in my experience. Some bios have different boot options for the same device. It's not really problematic, with a UEFI bios you just have to change a bios setting to boot linux. I swapped back and forth two or three times on my Win8 laptop. You have to disable SecureBoot and I changed something else too (which I don't remember what now), although SecureBoot may be all you have to disable or change. What he says.? /\ / I'm running an acer laptop, dual boot Ubuntu and Win8. If I remember correctly I had to use legacy bios and disable Secure boot for grub to run. It's easy OP. 
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Try a different distro, e.g., Ubuntu, openSUSE, CentOS/Fedora, Slackware, KNOPPIX, or Mageia. Yeah, I know Mint is based on Ubuntu, but it can be kinda funky where Ubuntu works fine.
Also, since Linux developers sometimes have to backward-engineer drivers for closed-spec hardware, the drivers sometimes work poorly or not at all. Could be your netbook just isn't well-supported by Linux drivers. My laptop works perfectly, but I looked up how well-supported it was before purchasing it. ETA: What's the make and model of your computer? «tc2k11» |
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asus net book Need to know what kind of processor it has. If it doesn't support PAE you will have to put a particular command in at boot. It might even be something other than a 386 based processor in which case you'd need a linux version for that kind of processor. Or it might have some other kind of funky hardware that might need either a boot command or might be incompatible. When you boot the live disk you can boot with "fail safe" options or something like that, might give that a try. |
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Are you sure you grabbed the right version? Is your machine 64bit or 32?
Also, mint is pretty well done, its desktop enviroment (cinnamon) is laid out pretty well, my install (dual boot win7 with two hard drives) works great. I cant even remember the last time i booted up win 7 on that machine. |
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I can almost guarantee one of 2 things.
Bad disk. Re-download and try again, make sure if your iso burning software allows md5 checks do it. Bad CPU. Will never install or operate correctly, throw in trash. There can be a few other issues relating to ACPI and the bootloader as mentioned, but 99% of the time it is 1 of the 2 things listed above. |
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Need to know what kind of processor it has. If it doesn't support PAE you will have to put a particular command in at boot. It might even be something other than a 386 based processor in which case you'd need a linux version for that kind of processor. Or it might have some other kind of funky hardware that might need either a boot command or might be incompatible. When you boot the live disk you can boot with "fail safe" options or something like that, might give that a try. Quoted:
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asus net book Need to know what kind of processor it has. If it doesn't support PAE you will have to put a particular command in at boot. It might even be something other than a 386 based processor in which case you'd need a linux version for that kind of processor. Or it might have some other kind of funky hardware that might need either a boot command or might be incompatible. When you boot the live disk you can boot with "fail safe" options or something like that, might give that a try. Most are ATOM now |
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I took the leap last week when my Win Vista laptop shit the bed for the last time, the boot record was wiped. From another computer, I burned the DVD for Linux Mint 17.1 and it loaded up a live version via the DVD. Mine didn't start on the first boot with a 32 bit DVD but the second time it did with the 64 bit DVD (processor was 64 bit). A live-DVD is not using the hard drive and it takes time to load up a OS. I started it and walked away for a while to let it do its thing. I was able to get Internet access after configuring the onboard wifi and was able to backup my files off the drive before deciding to do anything with the drive. Once the critical files were copied I reformatted the drive and set up hard drive encryption and loaded the operating system.
I was able to use Netflix but there is a workaround to get it to go. My (Graphical User Interface) Linux foo was weak but it is getting better by the day. Prior to this the last time I used a mouse with a GUI Linux was 1999. I'm a little more familiar with basic Linux command line operations. My struggle is with technical working of running dual configuration files to run one program. It took some time but I can do that now. The process is much easier than how it's done in Windows. |
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Fuck. Ok. Calm. Mellow. I went back to that raggedy little netbook and lo and behold there's now a mouse cursor on screen. It even moves when I move the mouse. Wow! it even gives me a little bit of a menu if I right click. Doesn't do anything else but boy can I right click. |
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Quoted: It says it's starting and looks like it's starting and gets to a pretty white full screen picture that says linux mint 17.1 & it does nothing else. It sits. And does nothing. Computer is a couple year old asus net book that ran win7 just fine. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: It really is pretty easy. What directions are you following? The ones on the linux mint site where I downloaded the ISO Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Like, something's wrong OP. Installing Linux is so easy it could happen by accident. Can you be more specific on the error(s) you're getting? It says it's starting and looks like it's starting and gets to a pretty white full screen picture that says linux mint 17.1 & it does nothing else. It sits. And does nothing. Computer is a couple year old asus net book that ran win7 just fine. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I'm a linux admin and I'll be the first to tell you it sucks on notebooks/netbooks, etc  Quoted:
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Many netbooks are not well supported. Your first install should be a desktop with common components. I'm a linux admin and I'll be the first to tell you it sucks on notebooks/netbooks, etc I use linux every day as a jump/tools/everything box and Fuck you Linux is said at least once a week. |
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The funny thing is, the best Linux experiences I have had was a distro for netbooks. EVERYTHING WORKED ON INSTALL!! I was amazed.. no fiddling to get my wireless to work, and it even downloaded and installed the third party crap for me!
It is light and fast too!! http://lubuntu.net/ I run it on a 2009 Asus EeePC 1005ha with a single 1.6ghz atom chip and 2gb of ram. |
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I'm a linux admin and I'll be the first to tell you it sucks on notebooks/netbooks, etc I feel a lot more comfortable with linux on a notebook if I'm connecting to WiFi's and such. My notebook is set up as a dual boot, since I have to have win for certain tasks, but I'm normally using Mint on it. |
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LINUX is worth what you pay for it. Pony up for a real OS like Oracle Solaris 11
Maybe when it was still Sun.... Never tried mint but... back when I was in college our final project was to build a linux web server. everyone else used unbuntu but we were rebels and used Open Solaris can't remember if it was by sun tho |
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