2 hours to install Mint on my Netbook

N2IT

Wow I suck!

Props to you linux guru's.

I must of partitioned my drive 6 times lol. The good thing is I finally got it installed. Atom Processor, 2 GB of RAM, and thankfully a SSD drive and now I am set up. I must say the OS runs incredibly more efficient than Windows 7 Starter UGH.

I'm not sure if you learn more reading a book or by googling your tail off, but obviously installation are more fun than reading, technology.

Thanks again for recommending this OS TE. So far so good!

Hey at least I know what GPART is now. LOL

GoodBishop

Did you use any guides or internet resources when you installed?

iBrokeIT

"When in doubt... Google it"

yzT

you speak like if it was an achivement. Was it really a challenge to install Mint? How many next, next, next did you click?

ccnxjr

Congrats!

Now do it all over again

Any notable struggles you'd like to share? Dont be shy!
Documentation is an ongoing process, and maybe you could help make someone else's experience less frustrating .

Was there something missing from the instructions maybe a keyword that would've made the partitioning process "click" or
Did you encounter some exotic condition? Do you have unique hardware?

DoubleNNs

It took me a long time to install Debian on my Macbook a while ago too. For me it was less about the installation (hitting next, next next) but getting the USB to boot and to play nice w/ Apple's version of EFI. While troubleshooting, my Googling pointed me to new utilities that were supposed to be great, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to work them. Then decided to take a stab at older, depreciated utilities that ended up working perfectly and easily.

I can def see it being a problem on a netbook as well.

N2IT

Yeah I burned the ISO to a disc and for some reason it would install but it was a bad install, eventually it worked (several tries). It was the 32 bit Cinnamon Edition. Like DoubleNN mention netbooks are problematic with certain installs of Linux. I Googled this as well

Then I wasn't sure how to partition the drive exactly. I Googled that information and it provided the correct partitioning specs and then the install completed.

It was more than next - next, although part of it provided an installation wizard. I was unable to set a mount point until I was able to partition the drive.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=122276 I used this for partitioning the drive.

ccnxjr

I didn't read the article, but guessing that the default partitioning scheme failed didn't work out well for you?
which is why you opted to manually partition the drive ?
... and , if you recall, what were some of the symptoms of this "bad install" ? missing packages ? or strange error messages when you tried to launch something (browser? or file system manager? )

N2IT

Correct the OS wouldn't mount the ISO files until the partition was correctly done. The experts on that site suggested not to go with a default partition anyway, which I obviously ended up not doing.

It was fun and I always like tinkering with Operating Systems. They are always a lot of fun.