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night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:16 PM

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@light ermine wdym "it has no drive" ?

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:17 PM

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I mean I guess it has one I'm booting from usb, it used to be a windows laptop but the decade old hdd died

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:17 PM

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open the DISKS app

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from ur mint live environment, via start menu search

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then show it

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:18 PM

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and the CD drive this laptop has, empty

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:20 PM

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explain precisely what the toshiba is

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:20 PM

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This 1 tb 'maxone' ssd drive

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Is apparently toshiba, windows recognizes it as the name Maxone idk where Toshiba comes from

dire gale Feb 15, 2025, 8:21 PM

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Maybe get a drive to install in the computer?

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:21 PM

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kek

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yah u cant install onto the installer-drive

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:22 PM

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omf ok

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:22 PM

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u need a thumb drive

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as the installer medium

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and the toshiba as the target

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:22 PM

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alright then well

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wtfff ok thenn

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I guess I'll delete this thread thanks

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:23 PM

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leave it open til fixed

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:23 PM

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fine I'll see what happens I might have a spare drive somehwre

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Where do I even go from here, how do I ensure this drive receives the OS install I will be using as my home computer and not the drive im going to borrow to install it proper?

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Or will i get to choose which drive once I have two plugged jn

dire gale Feb 15, 2025, 8:30 PM

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If you borrow a USB drive it will likely be smaller than 1TB and during the install you can select to install the OS to the 1TB

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:31 PM

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so I gotta burn the iso to the non tb drive?

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:32 PM

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ur pc may get confused if u power it up with both drives connected AT FIRST

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:32 PM

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Or it can install onto itself as long as it has so are writable memory

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or what eberidk imbad sorry

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:32 PM

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so just have the thumb drive connected

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:32 PM

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kk

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:32 PM

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boot the thumb drive

light ermine Feb 15, 2025, 8:33 PM

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once I find one

night forge Feb 15, 2025, 8:33 PM

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then after it reaches the live desktop, (live desktop shows the installer shiny CD icon)...

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then u plug the external toshiba one in. after a moment, it will show as a drive icon on desktop. Probably will have a name like "1 TB Volume". right-click that icon, and choose 'unmount'.

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then u fire up the installer, and just choose 'erase disk and install Mint'

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and u can watch the DISKS app, the changes that take place on the Toshiba, as the installer begins wiping and copying files over to it

night forge Feb 16, 2025, 12:01 AM

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once Mint is installed, and you've tested that it boots properly on the Toshiba drive 100%, then you should reformat the "Etchered" usb drive from within your new Linux Mint OS, before giving it back to whomever.

light ermine Feb 16, 2025, 12:01 AM

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its installing rnnn

night forge Feb 16, 2025, 12:02 AM

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this is because whoever u borrowed the usb from will be mad that their usb seems "broken" if u leave it etchered.

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as it is a real pain to fix from Windows.

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use the DISKS app in your final-installed Mint. click the PROPER etchered usb thumb drive, click stop icon, click the dots menu top right. format drive. make as msdos type.

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then once done, click the plus (+) icon to make new filesystem on the now-fully-blanked usb thumbdrive. set it up as simply Fat32.

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then you may return it.

light ermine Feb 16, 2025, 12:06 AM

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i drove 20 miles to get a one for myself but thanks for ideas

night forge Feb 16, 2025, 12:06 AM

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k. well u'll be pissed if it stayed "etchered" n unusable for anything else

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best flasher is ventoy anyway.

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or rufus,

light ermine Feb 16, 2025, 12:08 AM

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my expectations are already so low I dont know if I care anymore

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What ever waiting on thing

night forge Feb 16, 2025, 12:40 AM

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light ermine What ever waiting on thing

did it work? installation complete?

light ermine Feb 16, 2025, 12:41 AM

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this may sound random

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and thank you for your help

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I thought I deleted thread but anyways I destroyed my pc instead of installing it

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like with a knife

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so yeaaa anyways cya thanks

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