Comments on: Qiana “v2” ISO respins

By: killinjoe

killinjoe — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:54:24 +0000

Always get the grub command line and nothing else. cannot figure out why. with Ubuntu trusty, it went like a dream under the very same conditions…

Edit by Clem: Afaik, Ubuntu sign their kernel with a signature purchased from Microsoft and that consequently makes Ubuntu compatible with “Secure Boot”. Linux Mint doesn’t and we recommend users to disable secure boot. Of course in practice the implementation of these technologies is down to the manufacturers so mileage may vary. Officially though, we don’t support secure boot.

By: killinjoe

killinjoe — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:14:01 +0000

might be a secure boot issue but I seem to recall that I had deactivated it before my last try. Will make sure before coming back with a full report.

By: killinjoe

killinjoe — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:37:49 +0000

Hi. What about the fact that it has been impossible (to me at least) to perform a UEFI install so far ? Ubuntu internaional is the only one to come through as of yet which kind of pisses me off since I’d rather run Qiana…

Edit by Clem: Why not? What happens? Are you using secureboot? Please give us more info, EFI has been supported for a while and it’s part of our QA.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:18:43 +0000

@Monsta: thanks! Using wget I got the correct checksum.
But it really baffles me that JDownloader (installed in Ubuntu 12.04 from the ppa) somehow CONSISTENTLY modifies an iso. Seems like I must change my download manager …

By: Raynman3

Raynman3 — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 03:10:22 +0000

Trying to rescue a perfectly-fine laptop: how do I actually get an ISO file to rip the guts out of Win XP? No executable files?

By: Francy

Francy — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:53:56 +0000

Can you add the ftps support to the Nemo file manager? Thanks

By: Monsta

Monsta — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:45:03 +0000

@Patrick: my comment contains more than one link, so it got stuck in pre-moderation limbo until Clem approved it later. Anti-spam measures…

Well, http://artfiles.org/linuxmint.com/linuxmint.com//stable/17/md5sum.txt states that md5sum for that ISO is the same as on Linux Mint edition page.

Out of curiosity, I’ve downloaded that ISO from artfiles.org mirror, and md5sum turned out to be correct. So it’s something that breaks when you’re downloading… Try different tools for that. For example, I use wget:

$ wget -c -np http://…iso

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:17:11 +0000

@Monsta: sorry, the moment I post my second comment I see you replied. Don’t know what happened there!
I still think the Md5’s are incorrect though. But I can certainly understand about the release notes: quite a serious issue…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:09:41 +0000

No reply, so I re-downloaded Mint Qiana Mate 32-bit v2 from another mirror at linuxmint.com
(artfiles.org instead of http://ftp.nluug.nl).
Got the same Md5 in K3b CD/DVD Kreator: d633dc744959bd63939946bad3b1edaf
Also used md5sum to make sure. Same Md5 again.
As far as I’m concerned this proves that the cheksum on the linuxmint.com download page is INCORRECT
Would be nice if someone would add the correct Md5’s or at least delete the incorrect ones.

By: Monsta

Monsta — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:44:41 +0000

@Patrick: all the download links have been replaced by v2 ones, and I think all md5 sums have been replaced too. Check md5 sum at http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=159 for example.

As for the leftovers in the release notes, read Clem’s answer in this comment: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2662#comment-111002