Unfortunate, because OS X Snow Leopard was my favorite version of OS X. Anyway, I decided it was time to throw Linux on it.Īt the time, I was having trouble getting the latest 64-bit Linux distro DVDs to boot. As I recall, it was some error message that translated to “ your mail client is horribly old and uses outdated security protocols“. This is the easiest setup with no extra effort.Some time ago, Apple Mail on my white MacBook stopped communicating with Gmail. The root consists a swapfile for swap usage and your home directory. It creates an ESP partition for EFI boot manager of about 500 MB and the rest of the disk is allocated to root partition. In this method, Linux Mint handles everything on its own. Please copy important files on an external disk.
Linux Mint will be the only operating system on your computer.Īgain, this means that you’ll lose all the data on the disk. You are going to format the entire hard disk and install Linux Mint. The next screen is the most important part of Linux Mint installation. I plugged out the live USB and tried installing it again without connecting to the internet and the error didn’t appear this time. I encountered a “‘grub-efi-amd64-signed’ package failed to install into /target” error and my installation failed. Not connecting to the internet may also save you a few unpleasant surprises. This way the installation is quicker as it does not try downloading updates while installation. I strongly advise NOT connecting to internet while installing Linux Mint. exe file and you’ll see a screen like the below image. In the example here, I have used Rufus.ĭownload Rufus and run the. If you are using Windows, you can also use Rufus. You can use Etcher which is available on Windows, Linux and macOS. There are several such tools available for free. You’ll need a dedicated software that creates a live USB. Now that you have downloaded the ISO, it is time for creating a live USB of Linux Mint. Download Linux Mint Step 2: Create a live USB of Linux Mint If you do not have a good, consistent internet connection, opt for the torrent version (if you know what torrent is). If you have a good internet connection for downloading 2 GB of file without any issue, use a mirror which is closer to your country of residence (for faster download). When you click on that, you’ll find various mirror websites and torrent link to download the ISO file. If you do not know about them, go with the default Cinnamon edition.
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