Why the fuck would any sane person use Linux mint?
Install Ubuntu or one of its spins godamnit
Dominic Nelson
I'm not sure, at this stage I'm more concerned about resolving my initial problem
I'll worry about the values of different distros later once I am more familiar
Juan Harris
Not sure of the exact reason but here are some recommendations. Try re-flashing flash drive with a copy of mint. Something might be messed up or corrupted it. Try typing "ls bin/sh" if nothing comes up, there is something wrong since it is missing.
Jose Turner
so you're trying to get in the live environment or you already did that and installed it and then got this?
Jordan Reyes
Ubuntu is trash. Mint is superior to it in every way. Not only is Mint more beginner friendly but it is far less buggy from my experience. Not saying mint is the best distro, it's just much better than ubuntu.
Nolan Williams
I have Windows 10 installed, I am trying to boot into the live mode so I can install and wipe Windows
Have reflashed twice, using unetbootin and rufus to no avail. Will try this now.
Eli Ramirez
Hmm, I believe windows 10 requires you to format your hard drive into UEFI, are you making sure it boots into the UEFI mode of the installer?
Better support than Mint, by far. Your issue appears to be a faulty installation, prolly because Win10 UEFI. Get obanto MATE, it has newer and better driver/UEFI support.
Logan Young
When trying that from BIOS, it just goes to a black screen for a second then back to the BIOS menu
Not sure how one would format a hard drive in UEFI
Liam King
Alright
I just want to get rid of Windows and git gud with Linux
Luis Perez
>installing a tablet operating system onto a desktop
Benjamin Barnes
This is wrong. Try installing Ubuntu and see if you get the same problem.
Jeremiah Lopez
if he installs ubuntu he'll have a new problem: ubuntu
Lincoln Barnes
lol yeah because mint > ubuntu. good one buddy.
Camden Sanchez
Did it work? Ubuntu was the only distro I tried that sounds boot on my netbook, even mint would just load grub and then stop
Tyler Reyes
>these are about the linux mint WEBSITE Wow, it's literally nothing
Evan Williams
How ignorant do you think people here are? Anyone who opens the link will see you're wrong, retard.
Jeremiah Ortiz
he's right about the second link
Joshua Cooper
>second article is about the website >third article explains that none of the ubuntu devs' comments are true and you can easily enable automatic kernel updates
Wew lad you sure showed me with those hot assertions
Justin Wright
Yes but he said all of them are, not the second link
Sebastian Ortiz
>usb 3-6: string descriptor 0 read error: -71 >unable to find a medium containing a live filesystem
OP, are you capable of reading and connecting the dots? Because if not, I genuinely fear for your linux-using career
Adrian Morris
M D 5 D 5
Lucas Morris
Yeah, it can't find a live file system
My question is, why?
Jace Reed
Did Ubuntu work?
Angel Rivera
I am trying this soon Making a bootable USB with Rufus as I type this
Jason Hughes
You're trying to boot off a USB drive, right? That means the live filesystem it's trying to find would be on the USB drive.
And it said something about USB errors. I'm no rocket science but I'm going to assume you should try a different USB drive, famalam
Luke Harris
or a different USB port/hub*
Jackson Reyes
I have tried several different brand to no avail
I booted, it gave me options, I selected install, now it's sitting on a black screen doing notjing
Logan Murphy
It loaded eventually, now I got this error
Charles Ramirez
Ubuntu, or Ubuntu mate?
Nolan Thompson
Ubuntu Mate
William Ross
Try making the live usb again, that's a problem with grub.
Were you using ntfs or fat32?
Luis Butler
Y O U R
D R I V E
I S
F U C K E D
Jaxson Davis
Fat32
Jaxson Powell
All of them?
Jordan Gomez
Try again with ntfs.
Can it load the live distro, or did you just skip ahead to install?
Camden Jackson
Have you tried different usb ports / hubs / versions yet?
Brayden Carter
Format the USB to fat32, mount the ISO, copy everything over. Using Rufus to make Linux Live USB cause funky things to happen
Christian Cox
Yes
I have tried different ports, drives and formats
I am now getting an error "boot error"
I have honestly tried everything, this problem only started occurring after installing new Win10 and now I'm wanting to go back to Linux, but get these issues
W T F
Brandon Kelly
Maybe you're booting incorrectly? UEFI or regular legacy/BIOS? Try the other one you haven't
Sebastian Perry
This is in the EFI folder of the USB drive
wtf?
Connor Nguyen
Microsoft is keeping you on their side. There's no leaving now :^) It looks like something that could be infected by a virus really. If you have a rooted Android device near you try using DriveDroid or a similar app to launch linux from your phone, or just make a bootable USB on a system which isn't infected. After you boot the OS, wipe clean your entire drive and then install whatever you want.
Andrew Lee
I have made a bootable USB on my room mates Mac with unetbootin
Booted, in my BIOS it displays 2x of UEFI 16gb and another with no UEFI
No matter what I select it either boots right back to the main screen and loads Windows, or it boots into a screen to select what to do to install and when selecting, displays kernel panic or goes back and reboots and boots into Windows
Is it possible for a virus to fuck your motherboard to stop you from booting into anything else? Do I just nuke the whole drive now and hope for the best? This is unreal, I've never experienced a problem like this before
Kevin Morales
Since everyone is here why can't I get my ethernet port on my mother board to work? Just installed Linux the port does work on windows.
William Jackson
OP here
Just letting you know I got it working with MATE
Don't use shit-tier generic USB drives even if they work for normal tasks
Fuck it mane
Brody Mitchell
>usb read error hmm >unable to find medium containing a live file system hmm
Maybe plug in the USB live Ubuntu image which you installed grub onto install of the hard drive, which isn't USB. hmm
Jason Watson
You installed grub onto the USB flash drive you dumb shit.
Liam James
None of you were any help
>format it in NTFS bro
I did this on my own
Sup Forums truly is a cesspool
Bentley Reed
Do a low level format on your USB drive.
Luis Clark
If we're not there to personally see what's happening, it's difficult to provide support.
And fyi we tried helping you out of kindness and generosity, this isn't even the tech support board.
Wyatt Gonzalez
install gentoo
Eli Peterson
user, use dd for your ISOs, before creating LiveUSB verify that the ISO is proper with md5sum.
Also, don't install GRUB on your USB unless that is something you wan't for security.
