Linux Mint has four editions or flavors: • Linux Mint • Cinnamon is the own desktop environment of Linux Mint, it’s a fork of Gnome. • It’s elegant and functional. • Linux Mint • Mate is another fork of Gnome, it seems Gnome 2. • It’s for users that like a classical desktop environment. • Linux Mint • XFCE is a minimalistic and elegant desktop environment. • It’s better for computers with low resources. • Linux Mint KDE • KDE is one of most complete desktop environments. This article details the process of installing Linux Mint 18. How To Install Linux Mint 18 From a USB. We have created a Linux Mint 18 Installer USB Flash. • It has a lot of functionalities and a good look. • It’s better for modern computers with most recent hardware. Verify your ISO • From the main mirror download the sha256sum.txt file of the actual version • • In a linux terminal move to the directory of your iso using cd • Type the command: ‘sha256sum linuxmint.iso ’ • Compare that checksum with the one you can find from the “sha256sum.txt” file. If the two checksums are the same, then you know your ISO file is exactly the same as the original. • Example • checksum from “sha256sum.txt” file 3fb60a7698f5d6da3e4455d8a19be6b1cb0eeb5b59dbdd8cf1ffb3 *linuxmint-18-cinnamon-32bit.iso 2. Terminal output. If you compare the checksums, they are equals 6. If the checksums don’t match, your ISO file could be damaged 3. Make your installation media • Burn a Linux Mint Live DVD • k3b (Linux KDE) - Free • Brasero (Linux Gnome) - Free • Nero (Windows) - $$ • Alcohol 120% (Windows) - $$ • Free ISO Burner - Obviously Free: • Create a Live USB • Linux Live USB Creator • UNetbootin • dd - Linux • dd if=linuxmint.iso of=/dev/sdx 4. Notes • Your laptop must be connected to energy • Your laptop must be connected to internet (ethernet / wireless) • Linux Mint (Live) has problems with some graphic cards like nvidia because the free drivers don’t have a good performance 5. Boot the installation media • Configure your BIOS / UEFI to boot from the installation media device. ![]() I am trying to install Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon alongside Windows 10 on a new Dell XPS 13 laptop. Following a, I shrunk the Windows partition, leaving about 97 GB of unallocated space (GPT partition style) on my hard drive, and I made a Linux Mint USB drive using. Booting from my 4 GB USB, I chose the option 'Start Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 64-bit'. Next, I clicked the desktop icon 'Install Linux Mint', selected English as language and then got the following error message: You need at least 9.9 GB disk space to install Linux Mint. This computer has only 4.0 GB. The installer does not seem to see the internal 97 GB disk space, or is perhaps trying to install Linux Mint on the USB itself? I have seen some forum comments suggesting to change the SATA operation mode, currently this is set to 'RAID On', the other options are 'AHCI' and 'Disabled'. I'm afraid of messing up things, any idea what will help? Update: Tried with an 8 GB USB stick, the message changed to 'This computer has only 8.0 GB.'
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