Toshmarple
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Over the years I have installed linux on many computers, both laptops and desktops. In fact my every day pc is my daughter's old Dell whic runs Mint flawlessly but it is a VERY heavy laptop so I decided to buy a lightweight netbok and, as my daughter has a Lenovo C340 ideapad, I decided to get one for myself after testing Mint on a live USB.
I bought a nearly new C340 and that is when it all went wrong! The ideapad runs the live version of Mint but will not fully install it, just when I think all is well (about 75% complete) the installation crashes. I have tried several times with tweaks to the BIOS settings and different installs, all to no avail. So, I decided to try alternative OS's, none work and some do better than others but none will fully install. This resulted in me concluding that it must be me doing something wrong so I decided to let one installation do it's own thing. That did not succeed and in fact made things worse because in the process of getting where I am today, myself and the OS that is, wiped the drive of W10 along with it's two associated partitions.
With a surprisingly phylosophical attitude, I saw this as a positve; at least I could start with a clean SSD! So, armed with a live USB and Gparted I Cleaned the SSD, reformatted it for Linux and started again. No change, regardless of combo no success so now I'm asking you guys for HELP please as I really have run out of ideas.
Can someone PLEASE help, bfn, Tosh
I bought a nearly new C340 and that is when it all went wrong! The ideapad runs the live version of Mint but will not fully install it, just when I think all is well (about 75% complete) the installation crashes. I have tried several times with tweaks to the BIOS settings and different installs, all to no avail. So, I decided to try alternative OS's, none work and some do better than others but none will fully install. This resulted in me concluding that it must be me doing something wrong so I decided to let one installation do it's own thing. That did not succeed and in fact made things worse because in the process of getting where I am today, myself and the OS that is, wiped the drive of W10 along with it's two associated partitions.
With a surprisingly phylosophical attitude, I saw this as a positve; at least I could start with a clean SSD! So, armed with a live USB and Gparted I Cleaned the SSD, reformatted it for Linux and started again. No change, regardless of combo no success so now I'm asking you guys for HELP please as I really have run out of ideas.
Can someone PLEASE help, bfn, Tosh