Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon-- I wish to load this on my old VAIO (64Mb/s, 8G RAM). I'm using WIN 8.1; however, I have a blank SSD that I'd like to boot Mint on-- soooooo, what do I do? I tried downloading Mint to the SSD & booting directly from it. I set the BIOS to read external drives first. No go. Now what? Forgive me, but I'm a dinosaur, esp. in the Linux world. I'm just so sick of MS anything. & I'm really old. Not senile or stupid, just out of date. Pre-Elvis days. Yeh....
Loading & booting MINT from external SSD?
boot;ssd;load