Yes, I must have deleted off the Downloads folder, is it best to download another version from the mirror? I reading up on the SHA256 sums - guessing you want to check the authenticity?
You could copy that iso to your Downloads directory then we can run the sha256sum on it and see if it is ok.
ok, it’s loading back into downloads - is there a terminal command to see the SHA256sum?
Yes.
While it is copying, in your terminal type:
cd
all by itself then it enter.
That will put you in your /home/username directory.
Then type:
cd Downloads
and hit enter, that will put you into your downloads directory
OK,I’m there and it’s downloaded
Now type
ls -al
to make sure it is there
it’s there, confirmed
helen@helen-HP-Spectre-x360-Convertible:~/Downloads$ ls -al
total 2299812
drwxr-xr-x 3 helen helen 4096 Dec 23 21:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 32 helen helen 4096 Dec 23 17:40 …
-rwxr-xr-x 1 helen helen 95980639 Dec 21 11:59 balenaEtcher-1.7.2-x64.AppImage
-rw-rw-r-- 1 helen helen 95472025 Dec 23 19:28 balena-etcher-electron-1.7.2-linux-x64.zip
dr-xr-xr-x 10 helen helen 4096 Jul 3 09:11 ‘Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon 64-bit’
-rw-rw-r-- 1 helen helen 2162147328 Dec 23 19:16 linuxmint-20.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 helen helen 99 Dec 22 10:17 .~lock.EDAv5.3.xlsm#
-rw-rw-r-- 1 helen helen 1380408 Dec 23 20:02 rufus-3.17.exe
helen@helen-HP-Spectre-x360-Convertible:~/Downloads$
Interesting - that file that says !lock EDAv5.3.xlsm# is what I was looking at when MINT choked - I thought I’d removed it…
Ok, now run the sha256sum command:
sha256sum linuxmint-20.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
helen@helen-HP-Spectre-x360-Convertible:~/Downloads$ sudo sha256sum linuxmint-20.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
[sudo] password for helen:
50b833f1f093c029bfb7ba6148c9ce96619c01a83e92f35287983fbd62f26b01 linuxmint-20.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso
helen@helen-HP-Spectre-x360-Convertible:~/Downloads$
Good, that is the correct checksum number
50b833f1f093c029bfb7ba6148c9ce96619c01a83e92f35287983fbd62f26b01
Now type mount and see where the usb stick is mounted. It will be something like /dev/sdc1 Or something similar
oh boy!
helen@helen-HP-Spectre-x360-Convertible:~/Downloads$ mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=3919564k,nr_inodes=979891,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=793420k,mode=755)
/dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=28,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=18750)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=793416k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/fuse on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/sda2 on /run/timeshift/backup type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/helen/Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon 64-bit type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=500,fmode=400,iocharset=utf8,uhelper=udisks2)
Ok, your usb stick is at /dev/sdb1
Well quick double check, Are you on a laptop or desktop and you do have only one hard drive, correct?
laptop, one drive (monitor, keyboard and mouse in other USBs)
ok we are about ready to flash the usb. First type:
sudo umount /dev/sdb1
After hitting enter it will probably ask for your password, type it and hit enter
helen@helen-HP-Spectre-x360-Convertible:~/Downloads$ sudo umount/dev/sdb1
sudo: umount/dev/sdb1: command not found
helen@helen-HP-Spectre-x360-Convertible:~/Downloads$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
helen@helen-HP-Spectre-x360-Convertible:~/Downloads$
1st time I typed the line and missed the space - error, 2nd time I copied and it just ignored it…
Ok, that is good.
We are going to use the dd command to flash the iso to usb. It will erase the entire usb drive so we had to make sure we had the correct drive letter.
Here is the command to ‘flash’ the iso to usb:
sudo dd bs=4M status=progress if=linuxmint-20.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdb conv=fsync
That all goes on one line. It will give you a ‘kind of’ progress report. It may take a little while be sure to let it finish. You cursor will return when it is done.
ok, it appears to have loaded (2.2 gb ) and cursor is steady