Linux Mint is a modern, polished, easy-to-use and comfortable community-driven GNU/Linux desktop distribution based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. It is a great and recommended distribution for computer users switching from Windows or Mac OS X operating system to the Linux platform.
The stable release of Linux Mint 19.2 code-named “Tina” was officially announced by the Linux Mint development team and it is based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver).
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Importantly, Linux Mint 19.2 is a long term support (LTS) release to be supported until April 2023 and comes along with several updated software, improvements and some new features and these include:
- Improved kernel 4.15 support in the Update Manager.
- Ubuntu 18.04 package base
- Cinnamon 4.2 and MATE 1.22 desktops
- MDM 2.0
- X-apps
- Update manager
- Mint-Y plus many more
This tutorial will guide you on how you can install the latest version of Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon edition on your dedicated machine or a virtual machine. The same instructions also apply for both Mate and Xfce desktop installations.
Download Linux Mint 19 ISO Images
First of all, you need to download the ISO image from the links below:
- Download Linux Mint 19.2 – Cinnamon (32-bit)
- Download Linux Mint 19.2 – Cinnamon (64-bit)
- Download Linux Mint 19.2 – MATE (32-bit)
- Download Linux Mint 19.2 – MATE (64-bit)
- Download Linux Mint 19.2 – Xfce (32-bit)
- Download Linux Mint 19.2 – Xfce (64-bit)
Once you downloaded preferred desktop edition, make sure to create a bootable media-USB flash/DVD using Rufus utility in order to create an Linux Mint bootable USB drive.
Installation of Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon Desktop
1. After creating a bootable media, insert into a working USB port or DVD drive and boot into it, then, after a few seconds, you should be able to see the screen below and finally a live Linux Mint 18 desktop.

Double click on the “Install Linux Mint” installer icon to start the installer.

2. You should be at the welcome screen below, select the installation language and click on the “Continue” button.

3. Next, select your Keyboard Layout and continue.

4. Then prepare to start the actual installation process, you can check the check-box in the screen below to install third-party software for graphics, Wi-Fi hardware, Flash, MP3 plus many other media. After that, click on the “Continue” to proceed.

5. Then, select the Installation type as follows, to perform manual partitioning, select “Something else” and click on “Continue” to proceed.

6. You will have to do a manual installation disk setup. To perform a manual partitioning scheme, click on “New Partition Table”.

7. Next, click “Continue” on the dialog box in the screen below to set up a new empty partition table on the hard disk you have selected.

8. Then select the “free space” that has been made available on the hard disk to create new partitions on the hard disk.

9. From the screen above, you will see I have 42.9GB
disk space, in this I will create two partitions i.e. /
and swap
. First, create a /
partition by clicking on the “+”
button to create the root
partition for your Linux Mint. You will see the screen below and enter the following parameters and click “OK”.
Size: 40GB Type partition: Primary Location for the new partition: Beginning of this space Set partition filesystem type: Ext4 journaling file system Set the mount point from here: /

10. Next, create a swap
the partition which is space on your hard disk that temporarily holds data not actively being worked on by the system from RAM.
To create the swap space, click on the “+”
sign, enter the parameters as in the screen below and click “OK”.


11. After creating all the partitions, click on the “Install Now” and click on “Continue” on the dialog box below asking you to confirm the partitioning scheme you have set.

12. Select your country location from the screen below and click “Continue”.

13. Now it is time to set up a system user account. Enter your full name, computer name, a system username, and a good password. After that, click on “Continue”.

14. The actual system files will now be installed on your root partition as in the screen below.


15. Wait until the installation process is complete, you will see the dialog box below, remove the installation USB/DVD and then, click “Restart Now” to reboot your machine.

16. After rebooting, you will see the screen below, click on the username on the screen and enter your password to login to Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon desktop.


Hoping that everything went on well, you can now enjoy Linux Mint 19.2 on your machine. For any questions or additional information, you can use the comment section below.
I’m a newbie Linux user. I loaded Linux mint xfce 18.3 on my tablet some time ago. Now I want to remove 18.3 from my laptop and load Linux mint xfce 19.2 in its place, and have acquired a live bootable disk for that purpose.
How do I make a backup copy of what’s loaded now and can I use a USB for storing the backup?
Should I choose to remove everything from the drive after a backup copy is made for a clean install?
Jack
@Jack,
Better you can take backup of important files to your USB drive, and do a clean fresh install of Linux Mint…
Ok, but how do I select the files and move them to a USB drive?
With a clean installation do I still have to make manual partitions or can I let the device make the partitions automatically?
Jack by
@Jack,
Insert your USB Device in your USB port and copy files from Mint to USB. No need to create partitions manually, just select auto…
Ok, Ravi, I will try your suggestions.
Thanks
Jack
Everything was ok, after reboot I get the message “Booting freezing on the screen, nothing happens”.
Hello, I am having issues going back to my Linux screen from the command page. It shows something like Linux Mint 19.2 Tina Abdulkareem-X551CAP TTYL and then password and login details required. I don’t know if I can share my screen so as to understand what the problems…
Hi, Currently running Mint 17 Qiana for the past year, on an 80 GB root internal drive, and two other drives, a 160 GB and a 1TB drive, both using USB the 80GB drive is telling me it is full, yet the directories say it is only “half” full machine is sluggish and acting strangely…(I can’t save files to desktop…)
So, I purchased a 2 TB drive, and wish to install Mint 18.3 Sarah, on that, keeping the two USB data drives. Are there any pitfalls I should watch for? I would also like to name the partitions rather than
have a 17 digit Alpha- Numeric naming protocol on my 1TB drive, and a 9 digit Alpha- Numeric for the 160GB as it is currently (by default).
This will be my 2nd Linux installation. Thank You.
Hi, i installed Linux Mint with following partition /(120GB), swap(4gb) and /home (remained capacity approximately 376 Gb). my HDD is 500GB. every thing is going well. but I have a drive on my computer beside filesystem (which is my root) when I want to open I face to this error “unable to mount location, can’t mount file”.
I don’t know about this drive is that /root drive? why I can’t mount it.I want another drive to save my files and other stuff except /root and /home partition.
@morteza
You need to mount the drive partition manually and add a mount entry in /etc/inittab so it is auto mounted at boot time. For more info, check out the mount utility man page.
I am getting error input/output error 5 while copying of mint 18.2
@vkmp1432
Which command outputting error?
How should i partition my hard disk into drive c and drive d like that of windows.
Just follow the steps used in the guide, it is done the same way the partitions here have been created. C=/ (root)partition in Linux and likewise create another partition as D.
What happens if you skip adding the partitions during installation? I have to ask since I am new to linux.
Why not create the 3rd partition for /home? It will save you the headache for future reinstalls.
@onadd
Sure, really useful suggestion. We will include this in upcoming guides. Thanks for the feedback.
Hello Aaron,
Great article, really it helped me in installing mint 18 on my Pc.great going follow up with same pace.
@Aravind
Welcome, good to know and thanks for following us.