Airtop: Installing Linux Mint 18
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Prepare installation media
- A USB DVD-ROM drive or a USB Flash drive of at least 2GB should be used as installation media
- Download Linux Mint 18 "Sarah" - Cinnamon (64-bit)"
- For installation with a USB DVD-ROM - flash the downloaded image directly onto a DVD
- For installation with a USB Flash drive, please follow How to install Linux Mint via USB tutorial
Base installation of Linux Mint
- Follow the standard Linux Mint installation procedure - choose timezone, partitions, username, password etc.
- Disconnect the installation media and reboot.
- Login using previously selected username and password.
Intel & Nvidia graphics drivers
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa sudo apt-get update nvidia_driver=$(apt-cache search 'nvidia-[0-9][0-9][0-9]' | grep -v "dev\|updates\|uvm" | tail -1 | awk '{ print $1 }') sudo apt-get install i965-va-driver vainfo $nvidia_driver vdpauinfo mesa-vdpau-drivers vdpau-va-driver --install-recommends