Recent content by Som_Olli

@nik-Ken_Bah Hello and thanking you lots. Really overwhelmed with kind of support and understanding like never experienced before. Especially liking the quotes - old but yet so young and absolutely accurate. Try to enjoy Mint experience, hopefully with new spirit and patience.

;)I did not notice you're NOT a native speaker, neither am I. Well, your English certainly better than mine:). I like your explanation very much, I can comprehend and I try doing the same - of course, in a field that has got not much to do with computers. I like your attitude very much and the...

So now, before trying anything else - I would like to thank you very very much for your support, especially your patience and I bet it must be horrible if you have to deal with guys like me. I will try to go back to step one, insert the USB to laptop, try to boot from there and see what comes...

Finished? Eject?

It's flashing now. So, in general, I have to use the Flash-version on USB of the Linux Mint software to recover/reboot the laptop later? Why doesn't the downloaded Linux software do, it's already an .iso file, right?

Flash?

OK, I selected the downloaded .iso file from downloads. I also formatted the USB which already had the programs on it. USB clean. Continue? Where is my Mac USB?

OK, I ran it, opened it and now?

And then ? After downloading Mac version of etcher and execute? I can't do it, I cannot open it on my Mac. I think I'm no

I can't even open the downloaded file on the Mac. I'm really done here, really frustrated and doubting. I'm anxious to fuck up my Mac as well. Reason why I followed YouTube tutorial was that I wanted to have a clean re-installation of Linux. I had so many troubles with it, no Bluetooth, mail...

Sorry, I do have to open the balena directly on the stick first. now on the stick there are both programs, still connected to my Mac. is that correct? I'm really lost.

I downloaded "linuxmint-19.3-cinnamon-64bit & balenaEtcher-1.5.81-x64.AppImage" and have it on stick. What now? "Write the iso to this drive" - what does it mean? Or can I just start booting with selecting F12, selecting USB and "ENTER"? I might as well learn doing it right, if you don't mind...

Unbelievable.....you were absolutely right all along......the drive is empty. Probably left it inside when messing around with laptop before I lost everything. What now? Download Linux Mint Cinnamon on my Mac and move it to USB? Then boot again?

But how can I do that? I've got no idea. I'm sure it's the right USB. It's as I initially mentioned, I'm useless with this, never should have tried it in the first place. I'm suffering the consequences since quite some time. Do I have to write this laptop completely off, any chance to try...

Did that. Now I'm back to original message initramfs