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2. Linux Installation
We downloaded the latest version of LinuxMint. Download the .txt and .txt.gpg verification files also (and put all in the same location). You may wish to search for the most recent release and select your version based on your needs. We used 20.3 MATE, which is listed as the most stable.
We then continued to verify the download as shown on the download page. This does not work on a Mac, but we found the correct commands:
cd to your downloaded files
shasum -a 256 -c ./sha256sum.txt
which returns:
shasum: linuxmint-20.3-cinnamon-64bit-edge.iso: No such file or directory
linuxmint-20.3-cinnamon-64bit-edge.iso: FAILED open or read
shasum: linuxmint-20.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso: No such file or directory
linuxmint-20.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso: FAILED open or read
linuxmint-20.3-mate-64bit.iso: OK
shasum: linuxmint-20.3-xfce-64bit.iso: No such file or directory
linuxmint-20.3-xfce-64bit.iso: FAILED open or read
shasum: WARNING: 3 listed files could not be read
This indicates that the only one found, MATE, is ok. The others failed because they weren't downloaded.
Use the software GnuPG for OSX to use gpg on the command line. This didn't work and, of course, could indicate that the files downloaded from Purdue and Clarkson... or something else is going on.
Based on the Ubuntu instructions, we used belenaEtcher to create the boot drive on a removable USB drive. This should be done on a drive that is blank or can be erased as you will likely loose some or all files.