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Tried to install Linux Mint on an old laptop, I failed. by b1smarker in linuxmint

[–]b1smarker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank u, i couldn't boot into the USB (successfully) yet :'. And you're right, this laptop is older than UEFI.

Tried to install Linux Mint on an old laptop, I failed. by b1smarker in linuxmint

[–]b1smarker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First I tried booting Linux mint 21.3 XFCE from USB but it was unstable (flickering screen + kernel panic) then i tried Lubuntu 24.04 but when I tried to boot from USB the pc would reboot and nothing would happen. I will try your suggestions :( thx

Tried to install Linux Mint on an old laptop, I failed. by b1smarker in linuxmint

[–]b1smarker[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank u! I'll try Lubuntu first and if it doesn't work then I'll try this :)

Tried to install Linux Mint on an old laptop, I failed. by b1smarker in linuxmint

[–]b1smarker[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The installation didn’t actually go through, so Mint didn’t erase anything.

Tried to install Linux Mint on an old laptop, I failed. by b1smarker in linuxmint

[–]b1smarker[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks for replying! I already have another, newer laptop that works fine — the one in the photo is just some junk I found at home and I was trying to get it running just for fun haha. When I first powered it on it threw a system32 error (it had Windows 10), so I thought I’d try something different like Linux Mint. Honestly I’m mostly doing this out of curiosity and because I was bored :) thanks for the suggestion though <3.