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Everyone suggests Mint, but it won't install. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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I did all the same steps. I downloaded the file. I wrote it to the SD card, but then when I go to start it up, I just get this loading screen that lasted about an hour before I just shut it down.

What am I doing wrong here?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Silly question but is this a raspberry pi? I assume not since Linux Mint is for x86 64 bit machines. Are you just using the SD card because it is what you had? If you have a USB drive I would use that instead as sometimes device firmware doesn't work for booting off of USB.

If this is an ARM device there are other options

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Yes, raspberry pi 4. With 4gigs of ram. Is that the issue?

[–] kevin_alt2@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, that's the problem. You should probably start by downloading the official raspberry pi imager and choosing a distro from there to install to the SD card.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

There are other ways to find images and plenty that aren't available there but that's the easiest way to get up and running. You'll probably want to start with the default raspberry pi os and start experimenting with more customized os's later.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

See my reply to the other guy above.

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