Mint Installation

These instructions are tailored for the CPR 4 Computers project. The installation is pretty standard, the differences are mainly that additonal software applications are installed at the end.

For detailed Mint installation instructions, visit the Linux Mint Installation Guide.

Steps in Installing Mint

• Create Bootable Media:
  • Instructions
• Boot Linux Mint:
  • Instructions
• Choose the Cinnamon Edition:
  • For our purposes, we select Mint, which is a modern, innovative and full-featured desktop edition.
  • Mint flavors are described in: Choosing the right edition.

Miscellaneous Help

• Tutorials: Search Tutorials
• The Chat Room: A great place to find help is in the IRC chat room. To reach the chat room from within Linux Mint, launch Menu / Internet / HexChat.
• Mint Forums: Visit the Forums

Mint Documentation

The complete set of documentation is at: Linux Mint Documentation.

Tailoring to CPR 4 Computers

Mint Install

When setting up Mint, we follow these steps:

• Boot the computer from a USB. Pressing the F1 key during initialization gets you into the BIOS.
• Double Click: Install Mint. The version that gets installed depends on the computer hardware.
• Connect to wifi. Or, use Ethernet, which will make the downloading of files a little faster.
• Install multi-media codecs.
• Select the option to erase teh disc and install only Mint> It is important for our clients that the disc be wiped.
• Set Country, keyboard, etc.
• Important: Set up Personal and Computer ID
• Your Name: YYY NNNN
• Computer Name: CCC
• User Name: UUUU NNNN
• User Password
• If asked to set the Set Secure Boot Password, we recommend making it the same as the User Password.
• ReBoot
• Install Mint: (takes about 20 mins.)
• The computer tells you to remove the USB
• The Update Manager usually updates itself.
• System software updates then happen via the Update Manager
• Check System Reports (lower right)
• Do NOT update drivers
• Set up system restore, Launch Timeshift
• Do not update the Mint system

The BIOS contains useful information about the computer. Go to the Terminal and type:

sudo dmidecode

• CPU type, speed, memory, disc size
• Manufacturer's Product Name
• Serial Number
• Date of computer