I cannot access my Desktop

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Not yet … click the networkmanager icon in the system tray (by the clock bottom right), and then click on your wireless network … you should be prompted for your wireless key, enter it and click OK/Connect

Once you are connected wirelessly, then click the “Install Peppermint” icon on the desktop and work your way through the installation … when prompted, tell Peppermint to use the whole disk (erasing what’s currently there).

[EDIT]

There are some hints for installing Peppermint in Stage 2 here:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=12502.msg102173#msg102173

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Hi Mark,
I have finished the installation and was asked to restart my computer, in that process, I was asked to to remove the USB and press Enter.
On doing that, the system is not coming up and the message I have on my screen reads - No Bootable Media.
I dont know what I have done wrong.

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First thing to try…

Turn on the PC and immediately hit F2 to enter the BIOS … once in there, disable “Secure Boot” … SAVE the changes, and see if it will now boot ?

If not leave secure boot disabled and let me know … we’ll probably need to reinstall the bootloader

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Hi Mark,
The system does not allow me to disable Secure Boot, I can only change Boot Mode from UEFI to Legacy,

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In that case it might be easier to just switch to legacy and reinstall Peppermint allowing it to replace the version already there

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OK, am trying that but its taking like FOREVER to execute.

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To execute what exactly ?

now you’ve changed to Legacy BIOS, it may be better if we change the GPT partition table to an msdos style one prior to installation … are you up for that ?

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The installation is ok now but on the terminal window, when i typed su rabiu apt-get update, i get this message on the terminal -
/usr/bin/apt-get: /usr/bin/apt-get: cannot execute binary file

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found my mistake, corrected and making some progress.

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Yeah should have been

sudo apt-get update

(it’s usually best to copy/paste commands from here into the terminal)

But…

What exactly are you installing ? … if you’re following my posting about installing Peppermint on an Acer Aspire One, you do realise some of the instructions will be specific to that model right ?

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Exactly.
Almost through now.
When I executed this command in stage 6 - sudo apt-get install firefox libreoffice thunderbird skype && sudo update-apt-xapian-index
I ended up with this error -
The following packages have unmet dependencies,
skype: Depends: skype-bin
E: Unable to connect problems, you have held broken packages

As a result of this, I did not do stage 9 since stage 6 was not ok. Moreover, there is no skype on menu → internet

What do I need to do correct this anomaly??
Whats the root password for root on peppermint???
A big thank you for your patience and assistance.

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run:

sudo apt-get remove skype

now if you really want Skype in Peppermint 6 64bit, follow the instructions in this post:
http://forum.peppermintos.com/index.php/topic,1893.msg26779.html#msg26779

Starting from “OK here we go…”

Be sure to get ALL of the long command as it scrolls sideways.
(as I said, probably best to copy/paste commands into the terminal)

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Did not install the skype.
A big thank You Mark and pcnetspec.
You have been very patient and wondrful.

Once again, A BIG THANK YOU.

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No problem :slight_smile: