Linux Mint Training Guide

Farai Muzondo

CMIT 291 6384 Intro to Linux

Professor Vance
Introduction

This guide has information to help you make the process easy to understand when switching to
Linux, in this case Linux Mint. As you see below screenshot makes it easy to visualize and help the
process faster and quick to implement. Themes and personalize are not provided as they are like
windows and easy to find in the settings. The commands are listed in the proper format and a short
description for easy to comprehend. This training guide will provide all the required information for
Faster Computing, so that the migration can be fast and easy to continue business needs.

Part 1
Step 1
Please Download and install Mint from the official site. Google Mint Linux or type this site:
https://linuxmint.com/

Click the download icon as you see on the picture below.

 Select NEW, create a virtual machine as follows:

Step 5
Again, in this section we will select the default settings, in this case will be VDI as you see below:
Step 6
This section will be for the Storage on the Physical hard disk. Here we will change the default setting
from dynamically allocated to fixed size for improved performance. See below for good visual.
Step 7
This is one of the most important steps. File location and the size of the hard disk. By default, its set to
10.00 GB. We will increase that to 120.00 GB. System will run smoothly and finally click Create
Step 8
To create the Virtual Machine (VM) will take some time. When finished, we then move onto installing
(Mint) in the VM. By Selecting our newly created VM and click Settings, go down the list on your left to
the Storage section then under Controller: IDE click Empty. On the right side under Attributes click the
DVD icon and select Mint download.
Step 9
Move on the display section on your left and where we will change the Video Memory. We recommend
to maximize it to 128 MB for better high quality graphics.
Step 10
Here is where we go to the System section and change one thing. As you see on the next page move on
to the Processor under System and change the processors, anything in the green. For the type of work
you will be doing we recommend 2 CPU or more depending on the computer you will be using.
Step 11
When finished click OK. And you will go to the main page of virtual box make sure under tools the right
program is selected(highlighted in blue) and click the green arrow to Start.
Step 12
Mint Linux will start and you will be taken to the desktop where you will install it to the system. Click
install Linux Mint
Step 13
After entering your personal information, keyboard type, location will we then to brought to the
following screen where you can then select install multimedia, this will help you play videos of all
formats from different site examples YouTube, Netflix, etc.
Step 14
Here you want to just leave as is and finish by installing Mint. This can take up to 10 – 15 mins to install.
Part 2
Demonstrate command-line operations that will provide the following information:

 Listing of files in a directory and some common file attribute. When you use the LS command, which
will list out the currently directory.
 PWD command is used to print or show the current directory you are working on.
 To create an empty file, we will simply use touch filename.txt. After creating the file, we will use the
command to copy it to a different location. Look below:
 touch is used to create a file
 ls is for display a listing of files in a current directory
 cp is to copy
 Create a second file, then move it to a different directory.
 cd means change directory
 To remove the first file, as well as the copy you created.
 rm is to remove something
 The manual page for given command
 man intro command is given to display the page below
 Create a text file, then use an editor to modify the content. Then display the content of the modified
file.
 Nano will take you to the editor
 Show running processes on the system and demonstrate how to search for a specific process.
 ps -aux enables you to check the status of active processes.
 as you see below we used firefox as the specific program but can be done with any program.
 forcibly stop a running process
 kill command can be used to stop running processes.
Part 3