Hardware

Creating a new installation of Linux on my notebook is a fairly complex process so these notes describe the whole process. I need to download the latest version of Linux Mint from the Mint website as an ISO file. Create a boot disk on a USB using Rufus. I am using an earlier version of Rufus (v 1.31.1320) because the later versions are thought to have adware built into them. Use the settings in the picture below.

Mint usually works with NTFS USB drives but if you can’t see the drive you can mount it yourself. First run the command to see your hardware devices. sudo fdisk -l At the Disk line Disk /dev/sdb: 8004 Mb 8004304896 Bytes This is the usb disk drive At the Device Boot line you should see something like: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 32 1234567 1234567 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT This will be another reference to the usb drive.