Can't install Mint 18,3 from usb

seenab · 01-22-2020, 11:10 PM

I assume it's because I've not wiped the old Mint 17,3 from the disk. My previous installations were on new empty PCs or new disks. Also should I format the disk to ext4 before installing. An assumption is since I could install on new disks without doing so it isn't necessary. However if I use gparted to clean the disk (i.e. make one empty partition I might as well do the ext4 format. The current disk contains one ext4 partition.

phantom_cyph · 01-22-2020, 11:33 PM

Can you provide actual errors or screenshots of the errors? "It isn't working" isn't descriptive enough to know what is actually going on.

seenab · 01-23-2020, 12:20 AM

It doesn't access the disk - disk light doesn't blink. However I see that the WiFI does a few times. I therefore assume that I need to empty my disk. I just saw that the existence of an OS might be the problem. I don't get the window saying I don't have an OS. Am now making a live GParted.

seenab · 01-23-2020, 12:45 AM

I also noticed that the vesamenu.c32 has a file type:unknown size:26.7kB date:Wed Feb 216.
This differs from the file description on my 17.3 which has a file type bin and another size. Is this going to be a problem.

seenab · 01-23-2020, 12:58 AM

I also don't get the question about installing 3rd party drivers.

seenab · 01-23-2020, 02:28 AM

Neither the choose language. I can both and navigate in the live Linux environment.

seenab · 01-23-2020, 02:32 AM

I've no idea after about 15 attempts it is working. Is the possibly corrupted vesamenu.c32 going to give me a problem?