Dale,

I burnt a couple of different versions of Linux on DVD
and tried to boot them on my Lenova G580 windoz hate computer.
No luck. I don't know how MS black mailed Lenovo but what ever they did
they had their way with this company. Maybe others.

They over looked booting off a ASUS USB DVD read writer that I happened to have.
I stuck the DVD with Mint Mate ISO in the USB DVD drive and bingo. It booted.

So I burned a Mint Mate ISO on a 4 gig thumb drive and it also booted off that.

What kind of windoz hate computer do you have? I can't guarantee that
the thumb drive I am going to send you will work in your computer.

Take the Windoz Hate hard disk out and try to boot off the USB thumb drive.

There are two places in the BIOS that need to be enabled for USB boot.

Choose legacy every where else.


Then turn it off and install the new blank hard drive reboot off the thumb
and then install the Mint on the new HD.

There is another possibility but I have not tried it so far. You can get a cheap device that
turns an ordinary hard drive in to a USB hard drive. You might be able to install Mint directly.

The programs that burn ISO's  on USB thumb drives and DVD's comes with Mint/Mate.
The ordinary burner program  has an ISO option.

For Windoz Hate you have to find them on the Internet if they even exist at all.

We ought to get a class action suite going for about a billion dollars. That should
get their attention.


Paul Lamar


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