Granny Sue
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I'm new here, but have decided Linux is the OS for me. I recently purchased a commercially marketed USB stick with many distros of Linux all ready to use on my computer. The problem is that this USB stick is for 64-bit computers and what I need is 32-bit. Unfortunately, I have 2 old desktop PC's and a netbook that are all running Windows Vista, 32 bit. Yesterday I attempted to download the Linux mint software to put on these computers. However I used a USB stick that was only two gigs and of course that was insanity because I only got partial downloads.
Obviously, I am very new to all of this. My experience with computers has always been as an end-user so I haven’t used coding or have done very little installations as far as operating system software, so I feel like I’m in over my head. I did manage to set up a raspberry pie with one of the Linux distributions although it was so long ago I don’t remember which distribution I used. I follow the step-by-step instructions and was able to get it up and running with no problems. However, I think that was beginners luck.
The first thing I want to do is get Ubuntu or Mint installed onto these computers then, I will deal with each one separately. There seems to be so many steps inside steps in the installation process that I’m starting to get confused. You’re supposed to download the image, then you’re supposed to verify that the image you downloaded is complete and correct, then you have to attempt to get it put onto your PC. Is there an easy, easy, easy way to do this? I have the time to spare to get this done but if it takes much longer I’m gonna throw up my hands and frustration.
I'm new here, but have decided Linux is the OS for me. I recently purchased a commercially marketed USB stick with many distros of Linux all ready to use on my computer. The problem is that this USB stick is for 64-bit computers and what I need is 32-bit. Unfortunately, I have 2 old desktop PC's and a netbook that are all running Windows Vista, 32 bit. Yesterday I attempted to download the Linux mint software to put on these computers. However I used a USB stick that was only two gigs and of course that was insanity because I only got partial downloads.
Obviously, I am very new to all of this. My experience with computers has always been as an end-user so I haven’t used coding or have done very little installations as far as operating system software, so I feel like I’m in over my head. I did manage to set up a raspberry pie with one of the Linux distributions although it was so long ago I don’t remember which distribution I used. I follow the step-by-step instructions and was able to get it up and running with no problems. However, I think that was beginners luck.
The first thing I want to do is get Ubuntu or Mint installed onto these computers then, I will deal with each one separately. There seems to be so many steps inside steps in the installation process that I’m starting to get confused. You’re supposed to download the image, then you’re supposed to verify that the image you downloaded is complete and correct, then you have to attempt to get it put onto your PC. Is there an easy, easy, easy way to do this? I have the time to spare to get this done but if it takes much longer I’m gonna throw up my hands and frustration.