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ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoAppreciate the link!
Rufus is what the instructions said to download and then a list of prompts to enter in the command line. I understand none of those prompts, literally a completely different language.
I am using an old laptop that has windows 7 on it. Figured it didn’t matter if I screwed that up since it was old and not in use.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
What instructions are you following? Last time I used Rufus on Windows, it had a graphical interface with reasonable default settings and zero messing around on the command line. (I mean, I sometimes did once I was booted into Linux, but I was using distros where that’s not unexpected.)
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
skizzles@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I just downloaded rufus and a mint iso, here’s a couple screen grabs.
Launch rufus, and plug in your usb stick, it should show up under device.
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From there click select on the right side. Browse to where you have the ISO you got from the linux mint website and select it.
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Once you get back to the other screen hit start.
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You shouldn’t need to mess with any settings unless you are using secure boot.
Once that’s done, you should restart and boot from the USB stick. Depending on the model of your laptop there are different methods to get into the bios to change the settings to allow booting from usb. If it goes into grub mode it will look like a command prompt with a few selections. Just hit enter on the first option and it will boot into the live usb.
Once you are in the live usb mode, it’s basically all gui to install, test, etc.
Nowadays the terminal stuff is not really needed for basic use, so you should be able to get spun up pretty easy.
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Thanks for the screenshots! I have saved this comment for reference. I plan to try again tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I wanted to add an additional reply thanking you again for the screenshots.
These visuals helped put the worded instructions in context for me so I was successful in creating and installing the bootable drive.
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I wanted to add an additional reply thanking you again for the screenshots.
These visuals helped put the worded instructions in context for me so I was successful in creating and installing the bootable drive.