Linux Mint Debian Edition

Download:http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=88

Compatible with Debian squeeze

Rolling updates

Install Sugar 0.88.1

• Menu/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager:

search "sugar"

and select:

sugar-tools-0.88
sugar-artwork-0.88
python-sugar-0.88
sugar-terminal-activity
python-jarabe-0,88
sugar-emulator-0.88
sugar-session-0.88
sugar-presence-service-0.88
sucrose-0.88
python-sugar-toolkit-0.88
sugar-pippy-activity
python-hulahop
sugar-chat-activity
python-carquinyol-0.88
sugar-turtleart-activity
libhippocanvas-1.0
python-hippocanvas

Apply

• start Sugar: (Menu/Education/Sugar)
• from 2nd USB Stick:

Click on journal

Open Frame (pointer to top right corner)

Drag-drop Install from USB icon in left bottom corner

to Journal icon in extreme left bottom corner

surf-115.xo

• Click on surf (web browser)

Go to top right "Activities"

• (This is ASLO where you can install activities)

search for IRC and install

search for edit and install

search for speak and install

search for record and install

• Enjoy
• An Alternative is to Download and burn this DVD full of activities:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sck/ASLOxo

And Drag Drop install from the CD icon in bottom of frame to the journal icon

• Original Release Announcement: OLD

  (these are copied from that site)

  • All Mint 10 features
  • 64-bit support
  • Performance boost (using cgroup, the notorious “4 lines of code better than 200″ in user-space)
  • Installer improvements (multiple HDDs, grub install on partitions, swap allocation, btrfs support)
  • Better fonts (Using Ubuntu’s libcairo, fontconfig and Ubuntu Font Family) and language support (ttf-wqy-microhei, ttf-sazanami-mincho, ttf-sazanami-gothic installed by default)
  • Better connectivity and hardware support (pppoe, pppoeconf, gnome-ppp, pppconfig, libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dev, mesa-utils installed by default)
  • Better sound support (addressing conflicts between Pulse Audio and Flash)
  • Updated software and packages

NOTES

• LMDE uses rolling updates; so once installed it becomes current version each time it is updated.

Use linuxmint-debian-201101-gnome-dvd-i386.iso older versions (including torrents) were bad

• Make USB Installer Stick

We actually made the ISO compatible with unetbootin so you may have more luck there. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/636625

Notes for Installation on VirtualBox 4.0

Use gparted on Live DVD to format the 8-10 GB VirtualBox HD

/boot ext4 500 /7000 ext4 swap=balance

Install to HD

edit partitions to format as ext4 and as /boot; /; and swap

Finish installation and reboot

• Note this same procedure works to install to a 8 GB USB disk

2 GB Live USB disk

A Fast (ADVANCED) Method

Great for Netbooks without a CD/DVD drive

1. Boot Netbook from this non-persistent Live USB diskto test linuxmint-debian-201101-gnome
2. Use it to Install to HD

• tested from DL; boots fine (satellit 01/04/2011)

Download: linuxmint-debian-201101-gnome-dvd-i386.img

How to write to USB disk

Download to desktop

Use "mount command to see USB address: ie: /dev/sdb; /dev/sdc; /dev/sdd....etc

Or use gparted to see USB address

dd command is VERY DANGEROUS; if you use wrong address you will distroy your Hard Drive with no warning.

In root terminal #:

cd Desktop
dd if=linuxmint-debian-201101-gnome-dvd-i386.img of=/dev/sd(x)

How to Make a 2 GB Installer USB disk

Use the 32 bit version to make a 32 bit USB disk and 64 bit to make 64 bit USB disk

References

squeeze release notes

Install of linux-mint-debian-edition

Install xxx.iso to USB Stick

Enabling support for WiFi devices based on Broadcom 4311/4312/4313/4321/4322/43224/43225 chipset

"initial release of a fully-open Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets. The driver, while still a work in progress... supports multiple current chips (BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting additional chips in the future."