1. Open up Oracle VM VirtualBox 2. Click New 3. Enter name: Mint 4. Click Next 5. Increase memory size (RAM) to: 2048 MB 6. Click Next 7. Select: Create a virtual hard disk now 8. Click Create 9. Select: VDI (VirualBox Disk Image) 10. Click Next 11. Select: Dynamically allocated 12. Click Next 13. Increase virtual hard disk to: 20.00 GB 14. Click Create 15. Click Settings 16. Click Storage 17. Click Empty 18. Click: Optical Drive's disk icon 19. Click: Choose Virtual Optical Disk File... 20. Find the folder where the ISO image file is stored 21. Click: linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso 22. Click Open 23. Click OK 24. Click Mint 25. Click Start 26. Click: Install Linux Mint 27. Select English 28. Click Continue 29. Click Continue 30. Select: Erase disk and install Linus Mint 31. Click: Install Now 32. Click Continue 33. Select Honolulu time zone 34. Click Continue 35. Select English 36. Click Continue 37. Fill in your name 38. Fill in password 39. Select: Log in automatically 40. Click Continue 41. Click: Restart Now 42. Press the Enter key 43. Click on the terminal icon 44. Type in commandline: sudo apt-get update 45. Press Enter 46. Enter password 47. Type in commandline: sudo apt-get upgrade 48. Press Enter 49. Type in commandline: Y 50. Press Enter 51. Type in commandline: Y 52. Press Enter 53. Type in commandline: Y 54. Press Enter 55. Type in commandline: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms 56. Type in commandline: Y 57. Press Enter 58. Close the terminal window 59. Close the welcome screen 60. Click Menu 61. Click: Quit Shutdown the computer 62. Click Restart 63. Click Devices 64. Click: Insert Guest Additions CD image.... 65. Click Run 66. Enter password 67. Type in commandline: yes 68. Press Enter 69. Click Menu 70. Click Menu 71. Click: Quit Shutdown the computer 72. Click Restart 73. Right click on VBOXADDITIONS 74. Click eject 75. Click Devices > Drag and Drop > Bidirectional 76. Click Devices > Shared Clipboard > Bidirectional
Original webpage by Petersen Gross, modified by William Albritton.