Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Use GNU PartedĢ55 heads, 63 sectors/track, 488 cylinders, total 7843840 sectors WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. first with Gparted which said: 'No partition table found on device dev/sdb' and 'File system: unallocated' here is a more detailed information in a print screen 3- removed the USB flash drive, then plugged it back to check it: 1- on a 4GB USB flash drive I used Gparted to create a msdos Partition Table, and formated with fat32 Filesystem Here are the steps i taken: (on Mint 13(64bit) which I have installed now) First of all I am not a programmer, but a gnu/linux beginner(who want to learn more :)) and I thought I should write all the troubleshooting details to save many hours from other beginners time who just want to make a bootable USB flash drive with this release. I guess that everything Clem wrote in the tutorial worked back then, but now with this latest Mint 17.2 RC and a Non Uefi computer it seems that even the dd command completed ok, the computer still doesn't boot from the USB flash. My laptop is lenovo, 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU 2.30GHz,

# Not Booting from a Non UEFI, Legacy Bios computer !!! # Launch 'USB Image Writer' from the menu, select your ISO image and your USB device and press 'Write to device'. MintStick is installed by default in Linux Mint. The USB stick isn't persistent (though you can still use Unetbootin to do this). This method deletes all the data present on the USB drive Hybrid ISOs are still compatible with Unetbootin and Startup Disk Creator The resulting USB stick will act exactly like a liveCD/DVD. With hybrid images, you can simply write the content of the ISO and make a bootable USB stick which can install Linux Mint by using the 'dd' command.

Traditionally, tools such as 'Startup Disk Creator' or 'UNetbootin' were needed to install Linux Mint via USB. Previous releases such as Linux Mint 9, 10, 11, or even the main edition of Linux Mint 12 are not covered by this tutorial. Starting with the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE RC, Linux Mint switched to Hybrid ISO images. This tutorial only covers Hybrid ISO images.

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