Ok I know this is a stupid question as most of the ones I ask probably are to you guys, but in the file manager how am I suppose to find the casper-rw file? I went to terminal and typed in locate casper-rw, but nothing happened. I am assuming the reason this happened is because what I mentioned above. When I shut down my laptop that is booted from the MINT disc, no changes are saved. So I will probably have to do the entire process again from scratch. Before I did that I wanted to find out how I can look for the casper-rw file using the file manager. I am very, very new to Linux. As a matter of fact I hardly know anything about it so please forgive my novice questions.

I did look at the link you posted but that was pretty much "Greek" to me.

Thank you again in advance.

Maybe not what you wanna hear, but have you tried other distro's?

In my opinion any ubuntu is simply too big for a sub-16gb usb
the casper-rw will have to grow each time it updates or you add new apps, etc

there are easier alternatives that will autoconnect too
and some eye-candy, low-ram, with up-to-date repos too
( http://multidistro.com/tinycore-shots/tc-scrnshots.html )

that's my tinycore hack.
it's got opera, flash10, mtpaint(had gimp2), gtk2+, OSS stereo sound+ more and is about 70mb
I'm jammin the metallica as I write you

just a suggestion

Not yet, but that may be an option in the future. Right now I would like to just get this up and running. I use my work PC alot so I don't necessarily need my laptop for things other than budgeting my bills, looking for jobs, sending emails, etc. I don't plan on having this laptop forever. It's already about 5 years old. I've been trying to get this USB Mint thingy working for like 5 weeks now and it takes one week just to get to the next small step. These guys on here have been real patient with me and I appreciate that. I'm too close to give up to where I am now though, but if all else fails, then I guess I will just have a laptop with no internet service. I can function....I think. Thanks.

Can someone please tell me how to `search` for a file in linux? Maybe by typing it in...but where?

open a terminal
become root
type

When I type in: find / -name casper-rw it tells me about 50-60 times with different paths...persmission denied. What does this mean? Is it searching for the file on my USB at all?

Because you search as user, not as root

To search the USB
find /path_to_mountpoint_usb -name casper-rw

I typed in exactly what you said and this is what I got:
find: `path_to_mountpoint_usb': No such file or directory

You need tp replace
with te path to where the usb is mounted.

While the USB is connected, type
to find the mounting point

exempla
The mount point is here /media/disk

Ok this is what I got:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/STORE N GO type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=999,utf8,unmask=077,flush)

So from what you are saying I should type:

find /media/STORE N GO -name casper-rw

This is what I got:
No such file or directory.

I'm saying this ahead of time. Thank you for your patience.

OK, try /media/STORE_N_GO

Same thing.

Make sure you got the spelling right.
In a terminal, type
Then copy/paste the correct name

Yes the name was correct. STORE N GO.
I don't know what I did wrong.

no it is not
It should look like
type