#need help installing linux mint on new laptop

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stiff mica
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hello, i just bought a new laptop which has 2x 1TB ssd's
in one of the SSD's there's windows already installed which i don't want to touch or do anything about
in the other SSD (currently D:) its fully empty, nothing there right now

i want to install Linux in the D:, i have a bootable pen drive with me

will the "erase all and install" erase the windows SSD or the empty SSD?

i don't want to do manual partitions as i don't know what size of the drive should i part for what purposes

i don't want to install alongside windows although i can, but i don't want to. i want to use separate SSD for windows and linux

please tell me step by step how do i do it without fucking up.

I'm willing to hop on a discord call as well if someone's willing to help right away. thank you.

shut jay
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Safest option is to remove the ssd with windows on it, then you can't fsck it up. If it's a modern laptop, then Mint may not be the most appropriate distro, as you might be wanting up to date kernel / mesa / firmware / etc. Fedora, or Arch-based may suit your hardware better.

stiff mica
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i want to install mint and i dont want to remove the ssd, is there something i can do

shut jay
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yup. install mint, without removing the ssd. 🤷‍♂️

stiff mica
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yeah but how do i do it

lethal ore
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For manual partitioning, you should probably only need one 512 MB or 1 GB vfat partition for your efi partition, then the rest of the disk can just be your root. The only split I would do beyond that if you wanted would be limit the root partition to 100 or 200 GB, then use the rest of the disk for /home.

stiff mica
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i found this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BLFJL6UlOE

if i follow this, should my other SSD remain unallocated or is it ok if its already initialized?

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Dual Boot Windows & Linux from TWO Separate SSD's (One SSD for Wind...

In the previous video, I showed how to dual boot Windows and Linux from just one SSD - where you have both Windows and Linux on the same drive separated by a partition.

A better way to dual boot Windows and Linux is to have each Operating System on its own separate drive. So in this video, I have installed a second SSD and I will be showing you...

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stiff mica
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i followed this and successfully installed linux on the ssd

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but i dont want to spam press esc key n choose booting options all the time, how do i make it so that it asks me everytime to choose which hard drive to boot