Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, So the DVD is a good one so why does it not work on the laptop, which it the same drive it was burned on? Only thing I can think of, given the DVD starts OK and you get the menu offering Mint to boot, is to edit its kernel command line and remove `splash' and `quiet' as I said

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-22 Thread C A Wills
Well, tried all suggestions with little return except I tried my DVD on our desktop machine and it worked! So the DVD is a good one so why does it not work on the laptop, which it the same drive it was burned on? I still can't re-install the new copy of Mint until I get a DVD that works. Peter

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, It's the DVD text menu showing Mint 17.1 and Memcheck, so booted from DVD. Select Mint and that's when it goes to blank screen and nothing more happens. OK, there's probably a means of using that menu to edit the command line that boots Mint. Look for splash and quiet. Remove

[Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-21 Thread Clive Wills
Hi all I've been trying to burn a 'Live' disk/USB of Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64bit without any luck and would like to know what I'm doing wrong. So far have done the following:- Downloaded The ISO image from the main web site via a UK mirror, software is on the desktop so it's easy to find. Used

Re: [Dorset] Burning a live 'disk' Mint 17.1

2015-01-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On 21/01/15 10:11, Clive Wills wrote: Hi all I've been trying to burn a 'Live' disk/USB of Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64bit without any luck and would like to know what I'm doing wrong. So far have done the following:- Downloaded The ISO image from the main web site via a UK mirror, software is on