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[Terminator]

Just in the first throws of installing Mint XFCE it's taking ages on a Xenta AMD A6-9500E 8GB 240GB Desktop PC so far it's being installing for over 2 and a half hours, it didn't take that long to upgrade a windows 7 PC to windows 10.

[Dan-cer]

Welcome to this forum! Normally a Linux Mint installation - depending on the computer - takes significantly less than half an hour. Did you install LM fresh or did you upgrade?

[NM64]

Did you make sure to unplug all external and/or USB disks when installing the OS? (and, if installing from a USB disk, then obviously keep that one specific USB disk plugged in)

I made that mistake once and was wondering why the heck it was taking so long—turned out Mint is able to put the actual OS installation onto USB disks, being able to boot from it and everything! (it was a measly USB 2.0 drive in my situation )

Alternatively, are you installing from a DVD? I remember back in the day before I started using USB disks (ideally via Ventoy) or even secondary SATA disks that I would always try to avoid making new OS installations because they'd take like an hour from a DVD or the like.


And before anyone mentions the slowness of that CPU, it's still comparable to the Core 2 and Phenom II era of CPUs which alone will not cause Mint to take anywhere near an hour due to CPU performance alone (my current "workstation PC" is a Phenom II since I like integrated graphics + ECC RAM and getting anything tangibly faster while still being iGP+ECC either requires a new AMD CPU+mobo+RAM or an Intel CPU+workstation mobo that would cost the same as the AMD option anyway)

[kc1di]

Hello Terminator,
Welcome to the Linux Mint Forum, enjoy the journey!
If it's taking that long something is amiss- How did you download and burn the Iso? which app did you use to burn it?
If it was rufus I would reburn it with Etcher found here Ruffus has been know to cause problems.
It take my machine (old thinkpad only about 10 Minutes to do the install)

https://etcher.balena.io

[deepakdeshp]

Welcome to the forums.