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    11 months ago

    Yes, I have done a few things already, including memtest. I’ll copy from the forum:

    The things I have tried:

    • Updating my BIOS.
    • The ISO I downloaded has been md5 checked, all fine. I have also tried 2 other ISO files from 2 other mirrors - same.
    • Three (3) USB drives to install Mint, ranging from 8 GB to 24GB.
    • Installing with or without multimedia codecs.
    • Turning on secure boot before install (I was desperate, found a forum post with a similar error message, later I found out that it was for a different reason).
    • Turning off secure boot before install (I found a different forum post where the exact opposite was recommended - later I found out that it was for a different reason).
    • Installing in compatibility mode.
    • Offering a sacrifice to Xebeth’Qlu, tormentor of souls.
    • Running gparted before install, deleting the previously half-installed partition, formatting it myself to ext4, then running the installer.
    • Splitting the aforementioned partition into a 16GB swap partition (I have 16GB RAM) and leaving the rest of it as ext4 (mounted at “/”).
    • Running chkdsk -f on the SSD containing the MBR+Win10, then rebooting the PC twice, according to one of the error messages in my post below (then trying to install again).
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        11 months ago

        If by live environment you mean the one running from the USB (before I start the actual install) then yes, the install itself starts from a live Mint, running from the USB already. Sorry, I’m not sure if that’s what you meant.

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            11 months ago

            I have played around before trying to install a few times, but I’m not sure if that exhausts the question: I brought up two terminal windows to ssh into my Raspberry Pi and to manage logs on the other, while I had a browser up to look up netcat usage examples. It didn’t freeze or crash during regular activity, if we’re looking for that.