06-02-2018, 06:01 PM
(06-02-2018, 05:16 PM)cgs link Wrote: The burn was by the Mint ISO stick burner and then by Unetbootin, and I tried under both Mint 18.3 and MX17.
Use usb-creator-gtk instead. It's the greatest app ever for writing ISOs onto USBs. Only this app helped me. Etcher, mintstick and unetbootin did not cope with the task.
Quote:Both USBs were formatted before burning and the burn(s) were tried on both my desktop and again on that laptop: the desktop did not lockup but that is not where I want to install.
Don't format the USB (I also did so, but this did not lead to success in writing the image properly). The usb-creator-gtk app formates the USB and writes new image simultaneously and does that correctly.
NB: try to install the distro from the very first time, because then something happens with the USB (maybe something is being written to it during the installation) and it stops loading the distro for the second time, although the USB-stick remains usable for later work. You'll have to rewrite the live-image once again in order to boot from the USB-stick for the second time.
... let the dead bury their dead (Matthew 8:22)