My first time
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I bet you thought this was going to be about sex, huh? Well, close enough. It's about my first time installing a Linux distro, which I achieved yesterday after a few hours of mucking around. Let's begin:
So, yesterday I was sitting around bored when I decided "fudge it i wanna see what all the linux hype is". And so, after researching a few distro's I decided on Linux Mint 12 (LM12). I downloaded the .iso and because I couldn't be stuffed burning to a CD I decided to use a USB. I downloaded
Disk Image Writer, "burned" the file to the USB and rebooted. I entered BIOS and went into 'First Boot Option' (or w/e it's called) and I looked for USB and found: USB-HDD, USB-CD ROM, USB-ZIP and USB-FDD. I went with USB-HDD and exit BIOS, and the computer restarted. After the first loading screen (where you choose to enter BIOS), I was hit with an error about 'No default or UI configuration directive found'.
I decided to go back into BIOS and try USB-CD ROM, and the same thing happened. Went back and tried USB-ZIP and the same thing happened again. I didn't go USB-FDD because that's a floppy disk lololol. Anyway, I launched Windows 7 again and started looking up the problem. I found a lot of people saying to use
UNetbootin and so I did. I burned the image file to the USB using UNetbootin and decided to try again. I tried all 3 USB boot options, and again, the same error came up. I decided to format my USB to FAT-32 again, burn it again and try again. Nada. Did a little bit more researching and found 1 post saying to format to FAT instead of FAT-32 so I thought, what the heck. Formatted it, burned it, booted from USB-HDD and BAM. It worked. That's the first step completed :D
So anyway, I was playing around in the LM12 OS and it was neat. I decided to install it. So, as the installer goes, I partitioned my 1TB HDD and gave LM12 250GB, and W7 750GB. I wizzed through the rest of the process until it started installing. After a few minutes I noticed the bar hadn't changed for a while, and so I waited. And waited. And waited. After 15 minutes I asked the LM12 Help IRC channel for some advice. One awesomely helpful user pointed me to a page where people were saying they had problems installing with wireless on, and so I decided that next install I would turn it off. I reboot my computer, and tried again.
When it came to partitioning my HDD again, I realised that there was 250GB of unallocated space. I asked the LM12 Help IRC again on how to add it back to my W7 partition, and the same user (love him/her :D) guided me through it using GParted. However, when I went to apply the operation, some errors came up about not being able to complete it or something. I clicked OK and it showed a warning label next to my W7 partition saying that there was nothing on the system (i.e it was empty). I freaked out. I rebooted and changed back to HDD boot, and as it was loading chkdsk came up. I thought "might as well let it do its thing". After that finally finished W7 loaded and thankfully everything was there.
I shut down, went back into USB-HDD boot and loaded up LM12 again. I checked out the partitions and everything was in order. So, remembering my previous fiasco, I turned off my wireless connection and tried again. I got through the manual process and then it started installing. Thankfully that went without a hitch, and it successfully installed! My computer rebooted and a screen came up asking which OS I wanted to boot into. I chose LM12, and after a minute or so it finished, and I had successfully installed a Linux distro on my computer!
All that spanned a fair few hours, but I must admit, I found it surprisingly fun (the whole process), and I can understand all the love towards it :) It's pretty confusing right now, but that's the fun part - figuring it all out. So yeah, that's my adventure, hope you enjoyed reading as I enjoyed doing/writing :D
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