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Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) on VMware Workstation

Linux Mint is a Linux distribution that is derived from Ubuntu, which uses Debian as the base distribution, and is well-known for its ease-of-use and its appeal to desktop users. As the 20th year anniversary of Linux Mint comes during the second half of this year, we have chosen to test the very first version of Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) that is publicly available.

You can download the ISO file, LinuxMint-1.0-BETA-007.iso, here.

Beware that this is the earliest version of Linux Mint and, thus, no longer supported officially. Many things that depend on internet connectivity will not work.

First of all, we need to configure the virtual machine for the installation of Linux Mint 1.0 like this:

Now, before turning on the virtual machine, we need to add the virtual hard drive again as an IDE drive. Currently, it’s automatically added with SCSI as the type, and we need to change it to a legacy IDE drive. That’s because, in our tests, Linux Mint 1.0’s GRUB wasn’t able to properly recognize the SCSI drive type due to a bug in which grub-install insists that it needs to look on /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/sda1, even if /dev/sda was provided to grub-install. As a quick fix, we need to perform the following steps:

First, remove the SCSI hard drive entry from the virtual machine configuration. Then, click on Add…, click on Hard Disk, then click Next.

The virtual disk type needs to be selected as IDE, just like below.

Since we already have an existing virtual disk that was created, we need to choose “Use an existing hard disk”.

Then, provide the virtual disk file that you’ve just created. For example, in our case, it’s Linux Mint 1.0 Beta.vmdk.

After you finish adding a hard disk as an IDE disk, you should be able to see a new entry like this:

Now, let the virtual machine start up to a nice Linux Mint logo in the bootloader:

Press ENTER, and let the system boot up.

Once everything goes OK, the desktop below appears:

Now, we’re on a KDE desktop with a nice wallpaper. Let’s go ahead and run the installer to see how it goes.

This is not the usual Ubiquity installer that Ubuntu uses, but it’s some kind of customized installer. It’s making references to Linux Mint, although this version of Linux Mint was based on Kubuntu.

When we pressed OK, we’re greeted with a dialog box that asks us for a path to a block device for the Linux Mint partition.

At this point, there is no guided partitioning; you’ll have to manually set up the partitions. You’ll need to have two partitions: one for the Linux Mint installation, and one for the swap partition.

First, verify that /dev/hda, which corresponds to our configured disk, shows up:

Great! The disk’s block device file we need is here. So, run sudo fdisk /dev/hda, assuming that this is the correct block device. If it’s anything else, such as /dev/hdb, make sure that you select the right disk.

Then, create the first primary partition that will take up almost all the disk space, except to make some room for the swap partition. For example, we have an 80 GB virtual hard disk, and we’ll partition it to 76 GB for Linux Mint and 4 GB of swap partition.

The partition creation is done, but we have verified that the partitions were created like this:

Now, let’s change the second partition’s type to indicate swap. The ID of the swap partition for Linux is 82.

Finally, we can verify and write the partition table to the disk. Two new block devices that point to the newly-created partitions should exist on /dev as hda1 and hda2.

Finally, we can go ahead with the installation. Exit the terminal, and go back to the dialog box. Write /dev/hda1, then press OK.

After that, a second dialog box will ask you to write the path to the swap partition. Just write /dev/hda2, then press OK, assuming that this is the swap partition that you’ve created.

The third dialog box will then appear, this time, asking you to provide full path to the disk’s block device, like /dev/hda, for GRUB installation.

After that, a confirmation question box appears, which lets you review the changes made before the installation starts.

Once you press Yes, the installation starts with making filesystems on the disk, then copying the Linux Mint files to the hard disk, then configuring the system before the installer tells you to restart to boot to the newly installed system.

Press OK. However, don’t reboot the computer yet, because the GRUB installation stage actually didn’t happen due to Linux Mint not being bootable from the hard disk, even after the installation is complete, according to our tests. Let’s fix that.

Open the terminal shell again, and execute the following commands:

• sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
• sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
• sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
• sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
• sudo chroot /mnt

Inside chroot, execute grub-install /dev/hda, ensuring that the provided disk is correct.

After that, you should be able to boot to your newly-installed Linux Mint system. Exit the chroot session, and reboot the computer.

After that, Linux Mint should be able to run off the hard disk:

That’s great! Let’s verify that Linux Mint 1.0 is using Linux 2.6.15:

Some demonstration:

Bonus tip: for this installation of Linux Mint, the default password for the ubuntu user account is ubuntu.

Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) on VMware Workstation

Linux Mint is a Linux distribution that is derived from Ubuntu, which uses Debian as the base distribution, and is well-known for its ease-of-use and its appeal to desktop users. As the 20th year anniversary of Linux Mint comes during the second half of this year, we have chosen to test the very first version of Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) that is publicly available.

You can download the ISO file, LinuxMint-1.0-BETA-007.iso, here.

Beware that this is the earliest version of Linux Mint and, thus, no longer supported officially. Many things that depend on internet connectivity will not work.

First of all, we need to configure the virtual machine for the installation of Linux Mint 1.0 like this:

Now, before turning on the virtual machine, we need to add the virtual hard drive again as an IDE drive. Currently, it’s automatically added with SCSI as the type, and we need to change it to a legacy IDE drive. That’s because, in our tests, Linux Mint 1.0’s GRUB wasn’t able to properly recognize the SCSI drive type due to a bug in which grub-install insists that it needs to look on /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/sda1, even if /dev/sda was provided to grub-install. As a quick fix, we need to perform the following steps:

First, remove the SCSI hard drive entry from the virtual machine configuration. Then, click on Add…, click on Hard Disk, then click Next.

The virtual disk type needs to be selected as IDE, just like below.

Since we already have an existing virtual disk that was created, we need to choose “Use an existing hard disk”.

Then, provide the virtual disk file that you’ve just created. For example, in our case, it’s Linux Mint 1.0 Beta.vmdk.

After you finish adding a hard disk as an IDE disk, you should be able to see a new entry like this:

Now, let the virtual machine start up to a nice Linux Mint logo in the bootloader:

Press ENTER, and let the system boot up.

Once everything goes OK, the desktop below appears:

Now, we’re on a KDE desktop with a nice wallpaper. Let’s go ahead and run the installer to see how it goes.

This is not the usual Ubiquity installer that Ubuntu uses, but it’s some kind of customized installer. It’s making references to Linux Mint, although this version of Linux Mint was based on Kubuntu.

When we pressed OK, we’re greeted with a dialog box that asks us for a path to a block device for the Linux Mint partition.

At this point, there is no guided partitioning; you’ll have to manually set up the partitions. You’ll need to have two partitions: one for the Linux Mint installation, and one for the swap partition.

First, verify that /dev/hda, which corresponds to our configured disk, shows up:

Great! The disk’s block device file we need is here. So, run sudo fdisk /dev/hda, assuming that this is the correct block device. If it’s anything else, such as /dev/hdb, make sure that you select the right disk.

Then, create the first primary partition that will take up almost all the disk space, except to make some room for the swap partition. For example, we have an 80 GB virtual hard disk, and we’ll partition it to 76 GB for Linux Mint and 4 GB of swap partition.

The partition creation is done, but we have verified that the partitions were created like this:

Now, let’s change the second partition’s type to indicate swap. The ID of the swap partition for Linux is 82.

Finally, we can verify and write the partition table to the disk. Two new block devices that point to the newly-created partitions should exist on /dev as hda1 and hda2.

Finally, we can go ahead with the installation. Exit the terminal, and go back to the dialog box. Write /dev/hda1, then press OK.

After that, a second dialog box will ask you to write the path to the swap partition. Just write /dev/hda2, then press OK, assuming that this is the swap partition that you’ve created.

The third dialog box will then appear, this time, asking you to provide full path to the disk’s block device, like /dev/hda, for GRUB installation.

After that, a confirmation question box appears, which lets you review the changes made before the installation starts.

Once you press Yes, the installation starts with making filesystems on the disk, then copying the Linux Mint files to the hard disk, then configuring the system before the installer tells you to restart to boot to the newly installed system.

Press OK. However, don’t reboot the computer yet, because the GRUB installation stage actually didn’t happen due to Linux Mint not being bootable from the hard disk, even after the installation is complete, according to our tests. Let’s fix that.

Open the terminal shell again, and execute the following commands:

• sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
• sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
• sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
• sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
• sudo chroot /mnt

Inside chroot, execute grub-install /dev/hda, ensuring that the provided disk is correct.

After that, you should be able to boot to your newly-installed Linux Mint system. Exit the chroot session, and reboot the computer.

After that, Linux Mint should be able to run off the hard disk:

That’s great! Let’s verify that Linux Mint 1.0 is using Linux 2.6.15:

Some demonstration:

Bonus tip: for this installation of Linux Mint, the default password for the ubuntu user account is ubuntu.

Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) on VMware Workstation

Linux Mint is a Linux distribution that is derived from Ubuntu, which uses Debian as the base distribution, and is well-known for its ease-of-use and its appeal to desktop users. As the 20th year anniversary of Linux Mint comes during the second half of this year, we have chosen to test the very first version of Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) that is publicly available.

You can download the ISO file, LinuxMint-1.0-BETA-007.iso, here.

Beware that this is the earliest version of Linux Mint and, thus, no longer supported officially. Many things that depend on internet connectivity will not work.

First of all, we need to configure the virtual machine for the installation of Linux Mint 1.0 like this:

Now, before turning on the virtual machine, we need to add the virtual hard drive again as an IDE drive. Currently, it’s automatically added with SCSI as the type, and we need to change it to a legacy IDE drive. That’s because, in our tests, Linux Mint 1.0’s GRUB wasn’t able to properly recognize the SCSI drive type due to a bug in which grub-install insists that it needs to look on /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/sda1, even if /dev/sda was provided to grub-install. As a quick fix, we need to perform the following steps:

First, remove the SCSI hard drive entry from the virtual machine configuration. Then, click on Add…, click on Hard Disk, then click Next.

The virtual disk type needs to be selected as IDE, just like below.

Since we already have an existing virtual disk that was created, we need to choose “Use an existing hard disk”.

Then, provide the virtual disk file that you’ve just created. For example, in our case, it’s Linux Mint 1.0 Beta.vmdk.

After you finish adding a hard disk as an IDE disk, you should be able to see a new entry like this:

Now, let the virtual machine start up to a nice Linux Mint logo in the bootloader:

Press ENTER, and let the system boot up.

Once everything goes OK, the desktop below appears:

Now, we’re on a KDE desktop with a nice wallpaper. Let’s go ahead and run the installer to see how it goes.

This is not the usual Ubiquity installer that Ubuntu uses, but it’s some kind of customized installer. It’s making references to Linux Mint, although this version of Linux Mint was based on Kubuntu.

When we pressed OK, we’re greeted with a dialog box that asks us for a path to a block device for the Linux Mint partition.

At this point, there is no guided partitioning; you’ll have to manually set up the partitions. You’ll need to have two partitions: one for the Linux Mint installation, and one for the swap partition.

First, verify that /dev/hda, which corresponds to our configured disk, shows up:

Great! The disk’s block device file we need is here. So, run sudo fdisk /dev/hda, assuming that this is the correct block device. If it’s anything else, such as /dev/hdb, make sure that you select the right disk.

Then, create the first primary partition that will take up almost all the disk space, except to make some room for the swap partition. For example, we have an 80 GB virtual hard disk, and we’ll partition it to 76 GB for Linux Mint and 4 GB of swap partition.

The partition creation is done, but we have verified that the partitions were created like this:

Now, let’s change the second partition’s type to indicate swap. The ID of the swap partition for Linux is 82.

Finally, we can verify and write the partition table to the disk. Two new block devices that point to the newly-created partitions should exist on /dev as hda1 and hda2.

Finally, we can go ahead with the installation. Exit the terminal, and go back to the dialog box. Write /dev/hda1, then press OK.

After that, a second dialog box will ask you to write the path to the swap partition. Just write /dev/hda2, then press OK, assuming that this is the swap partition that you’ve created.

The third dialog box will then appear, this time, asking you to provide full path to the disk’s block device, like /dev/hda, for GRUB installation.

After that, a confirmation question box appears, which lets you review the changes made before the installation starts.

Once you press Yes, the installation starts with making filesystems on the disk, then copying the Linux Mint files to the hard disk, then configuring the system before the installer tells you to restart to boot to the newly installed system.

Press OK. However, don’t reboot the computer yet, because the GRUB installation stage actually didn’t happen due to Linux Mint not being bootable from the hard disk, even after the installation is complete, according to our tests. Let’s fix that.

Open the terminal shell again, and execute the following commands:

• sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
• sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
• sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
• sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
• sudo chroot /mnt

Inside chroot, execute grub-install /dev/hda, ensuring that the provided disk is correct.

After that, you should be able to boot to your newly-installed Linux Mint system. Exit the chroot session, and reboot the computer.

After that, Linux Mint should be able to run off the hard disk:

That’s great! Let’s verify that Linux Mint 1.0 is using Linux 2.6.15:

Some demonstration:

Bonus tip: for this installation of Linux Mint, the default password for the ubuntu user account is ubuntu.

Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) on VMware Workstation

Linux Mint is a Linux distribution that is derived from Ubuntu, which uses Debian as the base distribution, and is well-known for its ease-of-use and its appeal to desktop users. As the 20th year anniversary of Linux Mint comes during the second half of this year, we have chosen to test the very first version of Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) that is publicly available.

You can download the ISO file, LinuxMint-1.0-BETA-007.iso, here.

Beware that this is the earliest version of Linux Mint and, thus, no longer supported officially. Many things that depend on internet connectivity will not work.

First of all, we need to configure the virtual machine for the installation of Linux Mint 1.0 like this:

Now, before turning on the virtual machine, we need to add the virtual hard drive again as an IDE drive. Currently, it’s automatically added with SCSI as the type, and we need to change it to a legacy IDE drive. That’s because, in our tests, Linux Mint 1.0’s GRUB wasn’t able to properly recognize the SCSI drive type due to a bug in which grub-install insists that it needs to look on /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/sda1, even if /dev/sda was provided to grub-install. As a quick fix, we need to perform the following steps:

First, remove the SCSI hard drive entry from the virtual machine configuration. Then, click on Add…, click on Hard Disk, then click Next.

The virtual disk type needs to be selected as IDE, just like below.

Since we already have an existing virtual disk that was created, we need to choose “Use an existing hard disk”.

Then, provide the virtual disk file that you’ve just created. For example, in our case, it’s Linux Mint 1.0 Beta.vmdk.

After you finish adding a hard disk as an IDE disk, you should be able to see a new entry like this:

Now, let the virtual machine start up to a nice Linux Mint logo in the bootloader:

Press ENTER, and let the system boot up.

Once everything goes OK, the desktop below appears:

Now, we’re on a KDE desktop with a nice wallpaper. Let’s go ahead and run the installer to see how it goes.

This is not the usual Ubiquity installer that Ubuntu uses, but it’s some kind of customized installer. It’s making references to Linux Mint, although this version of Linux Mint was based on Kubuntu.

When we pressed OK, we’re greeted with a dialog box that asks us for a path to a block device for the Linux Mint partition.

At this point, there is no guided partitioning; you’ll have to manually set up the partitions. You’ll need to have two partitions: one for the Linux Mint installation, and one for the swap partition.

First, verify that /dev/hda, which corresponds to our configured disk, shows up:

Great! The disk’s block device file we need is here. So, run sudo fdisk /dev/hda, assuming that this is the correct block device. If it’s anything else, such as /dev/hdb, make sure that you select the right disk.

Then, create the first primary partition that will take up almost all the disk space, except to make some room for the swap partition. For example, we have an 80 GB virtual hard disk, and we’ll partition it to 76 GB for Linux Mint and 4 GB of swap partition.

The partition creation is done, but we have verified that the partitions were created like this:

Now, let’s change the second partition’s type to indicate swap. The ID of the swap partition for Linux is 82.

Finally, we can verify and write the partition table to the disk. Two new block devices that point to the newly-created partitions should exist on /dev as hda1 and hda2.

Finally, we can go ahead with the installation. Exit the terminal, and go back to the dialog box. Write /dev/hda1, then press OK.

After that, a second dialog box will ask you to write the path to the swap partition. Just write /dev/hda2, then press OK, assuming that this is the swap partition that you’ve created.

The third dialog box will then appear, this time, asking you to provide full path to the disk’s block device, like /dev/hda, for GRUB installation.

After that, a confirmation question box appears, which lets you review the changes made before the installation starts.

Once you press Yes, the installation starts with making filesystems on the disk, then copying the Linux Mint files to the hard disk, then configuring the system before the installer tells you to restart to boot to the newly installed system.

Press OK. However, don’t reboot the computer yet, because the GRUB installation stage actually didn’t happen due to Linux Mint not being bootable from the hard disk, even after the installation is complete, according to our tests. Let’s fix that.

Open the terminal shell again, and execute the following commands:

• sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
• sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
• sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
• sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
• sudo chroot /mnt

Inside chroot, execute grub-install /dev/hda, ensuring that the provided disk is correct.

After that, you should be able to boot to your newly-installed Linux Mint system. Exit the chroot session, and reboot the computer.

After that, Linux Mint should be able to run off the hard disk:

That’s great! Let’s verify that Linux Mint 1.0 is using Linux 2.6.15:

Some demonstration:

Bonus tip: for this installation of Linux Mint, the default password for the ubuntu user account is ubuntu.

Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) on VMware Workstation

Linux Mint is a Linux distribution that is derived from Ubuntu, which uses Debian as the base distribution, and is well-known for its ease-of-use and its appeal to desktop users. As the 20th year anniversary of Linux Mint comes during the second half of this year, we have chosen to test the very first version of Linux Mint v1.0 “Ada” (Beta) that is publicly available.

You can download the ISO file, LinuxMint-1.0-BETA-007.iso, here.

Beware that this is the earliest version of Linux Mint and, thus, no longer supported officially. Many things that depend on internet connectivity will not work.

First of all, we need to configure the virtual machine for the installation of Linux Mint 1.0 like this:

Now, before turning on the virtual machine, we need to add the virtual hard drive again as an IDE drive. Currently, it’s automatically added with SCSI as the type, and we need to change it to a legacy IDE drive. That’s because, in our tests, Linux Mint 1.0’s GRUB wasn’t able to properly recognize the SCSI drive type due to a bug in which grub-install insists that it needs to look on /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/sda1, even if /dev/sda was provided to grub-install. As a quick fix, we need to perform the following steps:

First, remove the SCSI hard drive entry from the virtual machine configuration. Then, click on Add…, click on Hard Disk, then click Next.

The virtual disk type needs to be selected as IDE, just like below.

Since we already have an existing virtual disk that was created, we need to choose “Use an existing hard disk”.

Then, provide the virtual disk file that you’ve just created. For example, in our case, it’s Linux Mint 1.0 Beta.vmdk.

After you finish adding a hard disk as an IDE disk, you should be able to see a new entry like this:

Now, let the virtual machine start up to a nice Linux Mint logo in the bootloader:

Press ENTER, and let the system boot up.

Once everything goes OK, the desktop below appears:

Now, we’re on a KDE desktop with a nice wallpaper. Let’s go ahead and run the installer to see how it goes.

This is not the usual Ubiquity installer that Ubuntu uses, but it’s some kind of customized installer. It’s making references to Linux Mint, although this version of Linux Mint was based on Kubuntu.

When we pressed OK, we’re greeted with a dialog box that asks us for a path to a block device for the Linux Mint partition.

At this point, there is no guided partitioning; you’ll have to manually set up the partitions. You’ll need to have two partitions: one for the Linux Mint installation, and one for the swap partition.

First, verify that /dev/hda, which corresponds to our configured disk, shows up:

Great! The disk’s block device file we need is here. So, run sudo fdisk /dev/hda, assuming that this is the correct block device. If it’s anything else, such as /dev/hdb, make sure that you select the right disk.

Then, create the first primary partition that will take up almost all the disk space, except to make some room for the swap partition. For example, we have an 80 GB virtual hard disk, and we’ll partition it to 76 GB for Linux Mint and 4 GB of swap partition.

The partition creation is done, but we have verified that the partitions were created like this:

Now, let’s change the second partition’s type to indicate swap. The ID of the swap partition for Linux is 82.

Finally, we can verify and write the partition table to the disk. Two new block devices that point to the newly-created partitions should exist on /dev as hda1 and hda2.

Finally, we can go ahead with the installation. Exit the terminal, and go back to the dialog box. Write /dev/hda1, then press OK.

After that, a second dialog box will ask you to write the path to the swap partition. Just write /dev/hda2, then press OK, assuming that this is the swap partition that you’ve created.

The third dialog box will then appear, this time, asking you to provide full path to the disk’s block device, like /dev/hda, for GRUB installation.

After that, a confirmation question box appears, which lets you review the changes made before the installation starts.

Once you press Yes, the installation starts with making filesystems on the disk, then copying the Linux Mint files to the hard disk, then configuring the system before the installer tells you to restart to boot to the newly installed system.

Press OK. However, don’t reboot the computer yet, because the GRUB installation stage actually didn’t happen due to Linux Mint not being bootable from the hard disk, even after the installation is complete, according to our tests. Let’s fix that.

Open the terminal shell again, and execute the following commands:

• sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
• sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
• sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
• sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
• sudo chroot /mnt

Inside chroot, execute grub-install /dev/hda, ensuring that the provided disk is correct.

After that, you should be able to boot to your newly-installed Linux Mint system. Exit the chroot session, and reboot the computer.

After that, Linux Mint should be able to run off the hard disk:

That’s great! Let’s verify that Linux Mint 1.0 is using Linux 2.6.15:

Some demonstration:

Bonus tip: for this installation of Linux Mint, the default password for the ubuntu user account is ubuntu.