Acer Aspire 5100 “No medium found” | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 12:43 AM

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I’ve recently wanted to repurpose an acer aspire 5100 and install Mint onto it, I’ve tried a 64 bit install and 32 bit install, I’ve tried Rufus and Ventoy, I’ve tried both regular boot and comparability boot, the closest I’ve gotten to a boot was on a 32 bit build but it couldn’t find a medium, I don’t know if I need a boot cd or I can keep using a thumb drive to boot with a different build of mint. I’ve tried windows builds on the laptop, however XP crashes before it starts an install and Vista/7 can’t find hard drive drivers.

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 12:45 AM

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when was this computer made, @final pasture ?

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#1295816480256163892 message

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pay EXTREME attention to step 4b

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and all of 6

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then make sure to follow the first method here, via 7zip AND the ventoy method: #1420498286912999434 message

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 12:48 AM

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Probably somewhere from 05-09, I’m seeing an mfg date of 0612 if that helps

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 12:48 AM

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google the exact model release date please

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 12:48 AM

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Alright

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 12:48 AM

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something truly ancient wont even boot by usb

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 12:50 AM

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It was manufactured in 06, the model no is BL51

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 12:50 AM

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any OS currently on it?

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 12:51 AM

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Windows vista

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 12:51 AM

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install CPU-Z from cpuid.com

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then show the cpu and memory tabs in two photos

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 12:53 AM

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Alright well I mean the fact that it can’t boot from usb kind of solves my question, and because my pc died recently I can’t do anything relating to downloads, I’m sorry

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 12:58 AM

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final pasture Alright well I mean the fact that it can’t boot from usb kind of solves my quest...

i didnt really answer it for sure

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i said it maybe cant

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 12:58 AM

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Yeah

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 12:58 AM

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did u even get to white ventoy screen?

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 12:59 AM

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warped quest then make sure to follow the first method here, via 7zip **AND** the ventoy meth...

as shown here, further down

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 12:59 AM

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Yeah I gotten to it

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 1:00 AM

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so it it reaches white ventoy screen, then it can boot via usb

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just do the verification methods beforehand using BOTH methods

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and use ANTIX LINUX full on that ancient thing

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if u know for sure the thing supports 64 bit, then antix 64 bit full

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 1:01 AM

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Alright

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 1:01 AM

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or puppy linux bookworm (based on debian 12)

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 1:02 AM

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I’ll try those if antix fails

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 9:38 PM

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hello @final pasture , any luck with it?

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 11:20 PM

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warped quest hello <@861564705122549760> , any luck with it?

My bad for not responding in time, my phone hasn’t been giving me notifications, to answer your questions i have unfortunately not been able to continue any further with the Acer as I have no working computer.

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 11:43 PM

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final pasture My bad for not responding in time, my phone hasn’t been giving me notifications,...

you can't boot Vista on it?

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and use it to ventoy a stick, and throw one of those ISOs on it...

final pasture Oct 29, 2025, 11:48 PM

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warped quest you can't boot Vista on it?

Oh no I’m sorry for the misunderstanding, when I said I didn’t have a working computer I meant that the computer I would have to do downloads from has recently died

warped quest Oct 29, 2025, 11:48 PM

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well you can still use Vista to do the download

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antixlinux.com should be reachable on it

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