Re: I'm trying to install LinuxMint

"or something like that" (quoting you) means we can't google for an
answer. Neither can you. So...dude, you really need to step up your
game here, write down exact error messages, and if you can't find
anything googling at least we can.

Sigh.

Look...I just now got Mint12 running myself, using the
whole-disk-encryption process at:

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/344

...and that's harder than the standard install - you REALLY need to
pay attention and not do a reboot when the Mint installer wants you
to, you have to let the script work in the terminal.

One thing about the Mint install that's different from Ubuntu: it
wants to do the latest updates as part of the install, so it wants a
real Internet connection while you're doing the LiveCD. In my case
that's a bit of a pain as my WiFi card needs firmware (Broadcom 4312)
and hence can't work in LiveCD. So I end up taking my Android phone
(HTC G2), setting it up to use my normal WiFi hotspot, doing tethering
off that to USB - basically using my phone as a USB WiFi card :).
That got me started, then using that I downloaded the WiFi firmware I
needed.

So...do you have a working Internet connection while on the Mint12 LiveCD?

Jim

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I tried Ubuntu 11.10 but when I am running of the battery it craashes.
> So I was told to try LinuxMint. I download it and it runs fine from the CD
> but when I'm trying to install it it hangs  towards the end when it tells me
> it is 'restoring previously installed software' (or something like that).
> What to do... oh what to do! Any advice?
>
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> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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