Comment on Discussion Thread 💡 Sunday 29 June

melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know mint offers this on their website, but that’s more to make sure you’re not installing dodgy malware instead, say if you downloaded the image from a torrent or mirror instead of the actual site.

  It’s not necessary but recommended. You could always try to install since it’s on an old laptop you could wipe again if anything goes wrong.

  Happy to help too if you need it

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m going to double check. It looks like I went to linuxmint.com and chose Cinnamon.

    And when the numbers didn’t match I tried mirrors (which claimed to be from reputable sources like universities and looked legit) to do the sha hashing steps on those too.

    Seems in March someone on linux.org was talking about bad isos, I’mma read through and see if he or she found a solution.

    linux.org/…/linux-mint-cinnamon-22-1-and-virtualb…

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It looked like there was more to it with OP in that thread. Maybe even download Rufus and see if you can flash an iso onto your drive with that alright. You can trial Mint on your machine before doing the install to test it too

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok thanks, I’ll check it out

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• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s weird - Ive not had that issue but I have to say I am often a bit lazy and don’t check. If it’s not lining up it suggests the download was corrupted. I guess you have tried the download more then once?

  If you tell em which distro I would be happy to go through the steps and download and share what I did in case there’s something you are doing wrong (not suggesting there is - I don’t know how much of a computer person you are). But I am travelling so can’t do it this week because I dont want to be downloading over mobile hotspot.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the offer! I’ve managed to create bootable installations and install them before, but tended to skip this step. It’s not a problem with directions either, I faithfully followed the verification guide which seems to work. The numbers just don’t match.

    It may just be an issue with the isos as someone else got as far as installation is talking about corrupted files. linux.org/…/linux-mint-cinnamon-22-1-and-virtualb…

    I’ve only skimmed the first few posts but adding it here so I don’t lose it

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah that sounds like it might just be a dodgy download. It’s been a while since I played around with other distros (I am old and can’t be bothered and run Ubuntu now) but mint used to be my go to for older machines. It’s lighter then ubuntu

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll have to dig more into it and see what other people are doing

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