General :: Using VB To Install Mint?
Nov 30, 2010
I am wanting to add Linux Mint to my computer, but I do not have the room to really do a real install on my computer beside Ubuntu and Vista, so I want to install it on a VirtualBox machine. I have a few questions before I do so. A.) Is all this reversible? B.) It will not affect my current system. Like, if something goes wrong with the install for some reason, it will not affect my current Ubuntu OS, which I will be installing it under. C.) When it asks you to create a hard drive, that is reversible, right? And it's only used when you are using VB? D.) About the hard drive you have to create. I have 2 partitions partitions that I use mainly, my / Linux partition, and OS, which is my Windows NTFS partition. If I create the hard drive on OS, will that mess up the VB?
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Jan 18, 2010
I can't install linux mint 7 gloria on my friend's lapt("Toshiba(old)")
should there is any version only for lapt??? should I go to Helena??? OR any other distro
processor:celeron (thinkig to eat me???that's not mine it is of my frnd's)
RAM:512MB
hd:40GB
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Mar 12, 2010
I've been using Linux Mint happily for a while until a couple of days ago it just died. Froze up, nothing I could do would free it up other than a hard reset. So, I tried to install it again from a Live CD, but my laptop won't even boot into Live mode. It just sits there, saying 'Loading....'. which it frankly isn't. I suspect a major hardware fault has occurred, but have no idea what. Any ideas?
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Jul 11, 2010
I would like to install Mint Linux in a Windows 7 Enterprise Virtual PC session. I have burnt the iso to a CD and when I use it within the VM, I see the Mint splash screen start but then the VM goes into a power down state and stops. This happens about 10 seconds ater the VM starts reading the CD. There are no error messages that I can see. Is there a tutorial on installing Mint in a VM? I did Google this and saw someone recommend VirtualBox, but I'd prefer to stay with Virtual PC.
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May 5, 2011
How to install xdebug in Linux Mint?
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Jun 14, 2011
I Have been trying to install BitDefender on Mint 11 but without success, Would be grateful for any note my knowledge of commands is zero but have managed to get this far,
1. Downloaded BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-7.6-4.linux-gcc4x.i586.deb.run into the download file. In Terminal I have tried to run it using sudo sh followed by the filename but get the message it can't find the file. Have tried cd /Desktop & cd/Downloads (Mentioned in a Linux article) but still get nowhere. Also tried putting the file on the desktop, then properties,permissions, ticked the execute box but terminal is not showing up in that box.
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Jan 13, 2011
does VLC video player work with MINT 10 ?
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May 28, 2010
I have Linux mint 8 iso and would like to install it on an Asus eee machine, for light web surfing and perhaps a movie only. I have istalled Linux mandrake once ages ago and red hat once too. The only other machine I have is a bigger netbook on vista, if I can get Linux working on the smaller then use it on my bigger machine too. Is it possible to use an USB HSDPA modem using mint on this netbook?
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Aug 11, 2010
I want to install Mint 9 KDE but I need to specify some installation parameters. I need to set the default filesystem as EXT3 so I can create a disk image with Acronis True Image that doesn't support EXT4 yet.
I've done the same with Ubuntu Server 10.04 by including the parameter 'partman/default_filesystem=ext3' at the installation console. I know Mint 9 Gnome can also be installed direct from the CD, but the KDE Live DVD doesn't give me any such option - just the desktop installer.
How do I customise the installation of Mint 9 KDE?
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Dec 21, 2010
How do I download and install Java for Linux Mint?
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Mar 9, 2011
After hanging at the who are you page. It is searching network for the time? this is never resolved. Im not on a network. These two issues are at the same time
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Aug 15, 2011
I wish to install Linux Mint 11 with RAID 1 for my /home. I was wondering if I can install RAID 1 during the installation from the Live CD.I have managed to set up RAID from the Live CD and install Linux Mint 11 to it, but on reboot it will not recognize the RAID volume as mdadm is not installed. Can I install RAID drivers from my Live CD onto the installed Mint using chroot and get Mint to recognise the volumes on reboot? Is there a better alternative?
I know this would be a trivial exercise using the Alternate CD in Ubuntu but Mint does not have an Alternate CD (at least that I aware of).
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Dec 13, 2010
i bought this laptop for my parents to use with a webcam to communicate because i recently moved to another state. I have read that the logitech c200 webcam is compatible with my laptop, and should just install as soon as i plug it in. However, nothing happens when i plugged it in so i tried to install it from the cd. there is an icon that pops up on the screen when the cd is in, but goes away when it's removed. not sure what type of info you need. my system is linux mint 9 isadora.
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May 12, 2011
I want to install Linux Mint 11 (just came out) to a USB drive. My USB drive is 34 gb. So I want to put a 1-2 gb partition on it and install mint just to that. Is that possible? I am a noob so I want to use [URL] but the screenshots don't show an option for a partition or state any extra steps that might be involved in doing this (there's a tutorial for doing this for one of the Ubuntus using fdisk, but I don't have any linux installs right now).
I've seen several tools for partitioning.
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Jan 15, 2011
I wanted to install a Linux distro to a flash drive so that I can have a portable OS with all my settings, programs, etc. wherever I go. So I fired up a Linux Mint Live CD and installed Mint to the flash drive, and this seems to work OK. But now, whenever I try to boot up my system normally without the flash drive plugged in, it doesn't seem to work. It basically hangs for a bit, and then I get the following prompt:
However, when I try powering my system up when the USB is plugged into the computer, it gives me an option between using the OS installed on my USB and the OS installed on my HD. Selecting the latter, everything loads up just fine. I'm guessing that installing Mint to the flash drive somehow messed with my native Grub installation.
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May 2, 2011
I have install Ubuntu 10.10 in windows 7 computer. I use it sometimes only as i dont have much knowledge like you guys. My question is i want mint 10 on my computer without installing it like i did for ubuntu. So how can i do that?Can i install Mint 10 in ubuntu?
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Jul 19, 2010
I'm now running ubuntu 9.10 and dual booting with 10.04. I want to check out Mint 9 (all 64 bit btw). I have downloaded Mint 9 64 and burned the ISO at the slowest speed and I've reburned it on many dvd's. When I put the dvd in and restart I can't get it to go to the dvd writer. It is set to be first in the bios and when I put in something else like GParted it works just fine. I'm not sure what the problem could be, perhaps a bad download? When I put in the dvd and go to Computer, the dvd shows up and I can see the Mint 9 iso file. I extracted the iso and here is the md5sum.txt:
a4b29b43f9757c3a69528db02c8e6dd4 ./preseed/ltsp.seed
d007768a1066ab1419d93daea54c4844 ./preseed/mint.seed
7e3aa6d1958baf72d369392fdb175486 ./preseed/cli.seed
2e00bbc97aa398fea542dde339e0fb4c ./isolinux/memtest
e1a88df9419de2803d2e3d588273b77a ./isolinux/isolinux.cfg
ed4604e47167175515efa84c847d33b2 ./isolinux/vesamenu.c32
e27aa83c46ed8d0e4c3a54f9eb018b81 ./isolinux/splash.jpg
0b631486f45023d97837bada4d881ae7 ./autorun.inf
ca3f0ff4ed43446b2c17a2bd1e4d7f5a ./.disk/info
7042b54a6d499aac321d523bfe42f4c5 ./.disk/mint4win
e39c965a2e93ce2955fcad47530f21fc ./.disk/release_notes_url
db883a5aa4b32fc3e3c724a2cd9cc922 ./.disk/casper-uuid-generic
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e ./.disk/base_installable
728cb968a88534e0c50a9d99621f13eb ./.disk/cd_type
3749f783ec858943d147ed68b3d03e11 ./mint4win.exe
8575590542fc98558aab1a7c2c7fb97c ./casper/filesystem.manifest
e815e512b4ee345d97e869d6440c6278 ./casper/filesystem.squashfs
2113380959635a723d13bb6816902e8a ./casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop
700def97af2518a8b8247705b4c0df45 ./casper/filesystem.size
135737a6c8608631a2cde5a8aad7995c ./casper/vmlinuz
f095ab591124d5011f2f47621b21f949 ./casper/initrd.lz
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Jul 20, 2010
I have a dual boot, Ubuntu 9.10 and Lucid 10.04. I want to install Mint 9 over ubuntu 9.10 so I have a dual boot of Mint 9 and lucid. I'm in step 5 of the 8 steps, which is manual install but I cant figure out what to do next. 9.10 is in /dev/sda6 and the swap is /dev/sda7. When I highlight the partition that has 9.10 and click forward I get the message: No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu. I'm a noobie at this and do not know what to do next.
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Apr 3, 2010
just installed OpenSUSE this weekend and I already had two different OSs on the laptop. Windows 7 and Linux Mint 8 KDE CE. Well during installation Windows was automatically added to grub but Mint wasnt. And When I go to the bootloader tab, and I add a new image it asks me the kernel image and initial RAM disk. Well This is what is in the boot folder on the Mint Partition
{
boot (folder only contains a jpg file)
grub (the grub installed on KDE... inactive)
abi-2.6.31-16-generic
[Code].....
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Mar 27, 2011
I have Mint 10-10 and XP dual and nothing wrong here, works as planned. I have been using Ubuntu 10 for a week on another HD and decided to replace Mint with Ubuntu.
I installed from DVD and it looked okay during install....said it was successfull and please restart computer. I did. And my usual screen came up with either Mint or XP but no Ubuntu.
how to uninstall Mint10 (I'm worried about GRUB if I do) or why didn't Ubuntu replace MInt?
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Apr 16, 2011
I have ubuntu 10.10 and i have an linux mint iso ready to put on my usb. i need help on getting the iso to work on the usb and then installing linux mint and delete ubuntu. I dont care if i delete everything as i have backed up stuff.
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Mar 28, 2010
I'm posting this question in Ubuntu since mint is a variant of ubuntu. I've just downloaded Linux Mint 8 and my cd rom is not working properly and so the only option I've is to take the iso to usb drive and install it from there. I've tried two ways and bot of them did not work.
1. Using IsoBuster I directly extracted the data from the downloaded file into the usb drive and tried re-booting the system
2. I used a LinuxLive USBcreator to create the installation files into the usb drive and this too didn't work out.
installing the linux mint 8 into my system using the usb drive? I don't want to run linux mint from the usb drive like knoppix. Also note that I'm going to have dual boot system with win xp pro as the other os.
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Jan 14, 2010
Now using a free proxy I managed to access the site, however I run Mint 8 and I cannot add the repo to synaptic as I get a 404 error due to the blocking by the Gov here......so all I can do is download the source tarball.
Unfoutunatly my command line experience is very limited that's why I use Mint and generally this is not a problem.
I am running Mint 8 64 bit version and my specs are listed below.
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Jun 8, 2010
I am using Opensuse 11.2 for the last few days, and I absolutely love it!! I have a dual boot system at the moment, with OpenSuse 11.2 and Windows7. However, i want to make space for another Linux OS for testing purpose.
More precisely, I have 750 GB hdd space. Windows 7 in C Drive (40 gb ntfs) and OpenSuse has like 30 GB for itself. Rest of the partitions hold data. I want to use one of the empty partitions for another Linux distro. Presently for Linux Mint. This partition may be rotated with other distros later, but i intend to keep Opensuse permanently.
My Question is, if i install Mint now, will its grub configure Opensuse and Windows7 into the loader automatically or will i need to manually change something? I do not want to lose my OpenSuse installation, neither Win7.
Also, is it necessary to have a common /home partition, or can the 2 distros have their own /home partitions? I'll proceed with the install only after i get a go ahead from here (with instructions )
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Mar 16, 2011
I got bored with Ubuntu pretty quick, and now just want something that works fast on my netbook, so I want to uninstall Ubuntu and replace it with Linux Mint xfce I was wondering if there was a way I could do that directly? I should add that my netbook is currently dual booting win7 starter and Ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition
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May 23, 2010
Is there any way to install uTorrent in linux mint 8 using wine. I tried the steps in the following link: "uTorrent under Ubuntu in 3 Easy Steps in softpedia" But when I complete the step-3 and double click uTorrent shortcut in the desktop nothing is happening.
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Jul 21, 2010
Is it safe to use the update from ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04? I have done this once before and it was terrible. There were just too many things that either didnt work or it was slow as heck. I then decided to just do a fresh install and 10.04 worked beautifully, but I recently wanted to install Mint 9 and wanted to write it over 9.10 since I didn't use it much after installing 10.04. but when I was in GParted, somehow I thought i had chosen the partition with 9.10, I wound up installing it over 10.04. So my question remains, if i just do the upgrade will it work like the fresh install?
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Jun 17, 2011
AcerAspire One Ubuntu removal Aspire One D250 dual boot Windows XP/ Ubuntu 11.04. I want to install Mint4Win inside windows and remove my Ubuntu installation. The Acer One has it's own recovery program and I do not know how to access the Windows command for fixmbr followed by a deletion of Ubuntu partitions with gparted.
My concern is if I boot with gparted and delete my Ubuntu partitions and reboot I will still see options for an Ubuntu start or windows start even though I no longer would have Ubuntu installed. For example, with Mint installed, on boot an option appears and asks if you wish to boot into Mint or Windows. This occurs if Ubuntu is not installed. My question is basically how do I insure when I boot up my computer I don't have a situation in which I have to first make a decision between Ubuntu and Windows XP and if I select Windows I then have to make another decision as to whether I want to boot LinuxMint or Windows?
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Apr 7, 2011
I just installed mint 10 KDE but my wireless doesn`t work.How can I install its driver?my Laptop is Dell Inspiron 6400
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Feb 12, 2011
Having some problems, which seems to be the norm for linux mint 9.
Background: I decided I wanted to try LibreOffice out so followed the instructions here: [URL] to install libreoffice.
After a week I found that LibreOffice doesn't actually have a spell checker or thesaurus even though it says it does. Decided I'd had enough so uninstalled it and auto removed the rest of its gumpf and attempted to install openoffice which actually worked, before. Problem is I can't, linux mint wont let me and keeps outputting random rubbish that makes no sense ie:
Code:
spud@spud ~ $ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
[Code]....
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