[AT] OT - Linux revisited

[Stephen Offiler]

I'm not the expert Phil but I did manage to complete this task recently and
it's still pretty fresh.  Here's what I did:

- On a Win10 machine, I downloaded Linux Mint 19.3 (64 bit)
- Same machine, I downloaded Balena Etcher
- Put in a freshly reformatted thumb drive (at least that's what I did.
Format not Quick Format)
- run Etcher

At the end of the above process, the thumb drive was bootable on my laptop,
and ready to continue with the installation.  I played around a bit and
finally decided to partition my existing hard drive.  I still have one
application I need that runs under XP (for now; I am making arrangements to
do that task a different way in the future).  Once I don't need XP at all,
the plan is to pull the HD and install an SSD and re-install Linux.

SO




On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:33 PM Phillip Kelley <philkelley at windstream.net>
wrote:

> I have been a lurker here for many years and gained much valuable info
> regarding tractors and other skills.
>
> The recent thread about installing Linux on an old laptop has prompted
> me to dust off an old HP dvb6t running 32 bit Windows Vista Home
> Premium.  I have successively cloned and replaced the hard drive to a
> 240 GB SSD.  I then downloaded Linux Mint 19.3 (32 bit) ISO to a new
> 64GB thumb drive.  Attempts to make it bootable failed using both Rufus
> and Etcher because they don't support Vista.  So I moved the project to
> my Win 10 laptop and tried Rufus again.  It appears to go through all
> the steps but ends with an error message and the thumb drive doesn't
> boot .  Am I making this to complicated?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.  TIA
>
> Phil Kelley - GA
>
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