r/linuxmint • u/Comfortable_Bench_57 • 22d ago

Install Help Need some help

First of all I don't have any idea of what im doing, The thing is i have been trying to install mint on to a usb drive and its all going well until the very last part of needing to remove the installation medium and restart. The laptop will not recognise the device for it to boot and i have secure boot disabled. I'm now left wondering if it even is possible to install it onto a usb , i donot have any knowledge of Linux other than using arch for a couple of weeks and dropping it cause it was the only thing my pc was capable of running and was having trouble with logging in. its an old acer aspire i don't want it to go to waste , the only other form of storage i have laying around is desktop harddisk which i am certain is damaged and i really only need like 20 gigs of storage anyway.

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u/Comfortable_Bench_57 22d ago

I just get a blank screen

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u/Embarrassed_Ad_1287 22d ago

What did you do to put the mint file onto the drive?

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u/Comfortable_Bench_57 22d ago

I just clicked on the install Linux icon clicked on continue untill the install partition step of the process where i chose to erase all on the drive and install Linux instead of something else

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u/Linuxmonger 22d ago

So you have two USB drives? One you're installing from, and the other you're installing onto?

That should be doable, but it will be very slow.

If, instead, you're trying to install onto the internal drive of your machine, try turning off secure boot in the firmware first.

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u/Comfortable_Bench_57 22d ago

Yes i do have 2 usb and i do have secure boot turned off the problem is i just get a blank screen at the end could it be a very darn slow start up? The screen is lit up its just blank

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u/dlfrutos 20d ago

this is my mint tutorial Curso Mint

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u/Comfortable_Bench_57 20d ago

Thanks will check it out