{"id":229,"date":"2013-06-27T20:48:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/?p=229"},"modified":"2013-06-29T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T14:35:51","slug":"installing-linux-mint-debian-edition-15-olivia-via-a-usb-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/2013\/installing-linux-mint-debian-edition-15-olivia-via-a-usb-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Linux Mint Debian Edition via a USB stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I installed 64-bit Mint Debian Edition today (LMDE) but I had a problem getting the image onto the USB stick. I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxliveusb.com\/\">LinuxLive (LiLi) Usb Creator<\/a> version 2.8.22 released June 1st 2013, however the default settings resulted in a usb stick that wouldn't boot properly.<\/p>\n<p>The symptom was a kernel panic due to the init process being terminated. It wasn't very easy to see what the cause was, as after the panic the kernel changed the graphics mode back to a text mode which got rid of the error messages. It turned out that after mounting the initrd, it had a problem finding \/boot\/casper.<\/p>\n<p>This problem occurred because LiLi didn't recognise the iso file, and guessed that it should use its settings for 64-bit Linux Mint Olivia. The fix was to manually select the settings for the most recent version of 64-bit Mint Debian Edition that LiLi knew about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mint-olivia-installation-settings.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-230\" alt=\"Settings to choose in LiLi\" src=\"http:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mint-olivia-installation-settings-300x260.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mint-olivia-installation-settings-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mint-olivia-installation-settings.png 906w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was then able to boot into live mode and install to disc from there. I was slightly surprised that there was no direct install link from the boot menu but you can't have everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed 64-bit Mint Debian Edition today (LMDE) but I had a problem getting the image onto the USB stick. I used LinuxLive (LiLi) Usb Creator version 2.8.22 released June 1st 2013, however the default settings resulted in a usb stick that wouldn't boot properly. The symptom was a kernel panic due to the init [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisfisher.me.uk\/problem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}