Hi All,
I wrote:
> I see Mint 17 with Mate now appears to
> be available for downloading.
The download went OK as soon as I went to
my public library--sniffing around with my
old netbook (with its fairly poor WiFi setup)
on Mint (Mate) 16 and its popup "offline
warning" to "tattle" on the unsatisfactory
WiFi locations--had shown me a rather
wide range in "hot spot" quality. Some of
them aren't hot at all! More like "luke warm"
The apple store sure takes the cake with its
signal strength bouncing up and down and
sometimes dropping off completely. That's
not a good way to get a 1.3 GB .iso file.
Interesting journey, though--I had the
download folder open and so I noticed the
mirror site started downloading as soon as
I clicked it instead of waiting for me to see
their site and confirm they were offering
what I hoped for. That could explain some
of the weird results in the past. Naturally
the copy of Fusion (not my intent) didn't
pass the md5 check for Mint with Mate.
> I intend to install from a USB by using
> unetbootin; that worked for Version 16
> but I did the prep work for that in Win
> XP which is now gone.
Joan pointed out, off list, that my 16 has a
facility (in the GUI rather than the Terminal
where I was looking) to make the bootable
USB. So far it all seems to be working as I
had expected.
To continue my netbook experiment, my
next thought will be to try out having the
partitions set up. Any thoughts on sizes?
Regards,
Gene Falck
gfalck@merr.com
Posted by: "Gene C. Falck" <gfalck@merr.com>
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