Hi all, I am a Windows user who wants to dual boot Mint. I have the USB setup and am ready to begin installation, but am afraid of the partitioning part. I have a 256GB SSD with 3GB free and a 1TB HD with 150GB free. I am thinking about reserving around 60GB for Linux, as it won't be my main OS (for now). How should I partition this HD in a way that is safe? I'm afraid of corruption/wiping
Sorry if this is not the right channel
#Partitioning in Windows
fluid raven
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follow https://discord.com/channels/628978428019736619/1261327750715801630 very closely to get Mint on your 1 TB drive.
fluid raven
It seems I don't have access to this channel, what is it's name?
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does the link show as unknown?
fluid raven
Yep
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should work anyway
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Tyy
note that user already has an efi partition on 2nd disk
so careful about step 8 in my words, u'll have to make one using gparted (in the live desktop) by shrinking the 150 GB space by ~100 Megabytes
then in the installer, just prior to step 8, click that 100 MB space and click + sign, and set to use as: EFI system partition. then proceed to step 8
fluid raven
Wait what is the 100MB for?
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separate efi
though technically it could still work if u set the bootloader to go on first disk's existing efi (it will coexist)
def watch vid mentioned
fluid raven
Man I understand nothing 😓
This is really overwhelming
fluid raven
def watch vid mentioned
Oke, I hope it helps
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watch the 2nd vid u'll see the method B shows the whole process
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no that's important to to kill FS. but at the very top of that posting re: dual disk-dualboot
fluid raven
Oh this one
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there's a thumbnail below that text
fluid raven
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yes that's it
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If only this didn't have the chance to corrupt everything I have it would be so much easier 😩
fluid raven
yes that's it
Gotcha
Thx
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keep in mind ur 1 tb disk isnt empty so must follow my steps outlined for iloveducks to manual setup on the 150 GB
fluid raven
Ofc
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but method b of that vid gets u wamed up. the only error made is he chooses the disk entirely for "location for bootloader" should rather pick the exact disk+partition number corresponding to 2nd EFI partition on the system rather
fluid raven
See that's what I'm scared of
If even the guy making the freaking tutorial makes a mistake what is stopping me from wiping my drive clean
And it's not even like I know what I'm doing you feel me?
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well watch thorougly, after he hits "install" there's a final summary to approve, as I mention in step 9
fluid raven
Okay wish me luck
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I may go out but mention this post to user "very" in general chat if ur unsure at the final summary
fluid raven
Like @very?
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yes
fluid raven
Okay, thank you very much for the help so far
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Okay, thank you very much for the help so far
any updates on this?
fluid raven
Not really, I don't feel confident with doing this by myself
Thanks very much for the help and interest, and sorry for the disappointment
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Thanks very much for the help and interest, and sorry for the disappointment
if u want to do it, unplug the Windows drive
boot the linux usb up.
run gparted, and choose the large HDD in it
resize it by shrinking by around 60 -63 GIB
Add a new primary partition to it of say 62.8 GiB , ext4
then the last 0.2 GiB remaing unallocated space, add a 200 MiB FAT32 partition
hit apply.
then right click the 200 MB pt'n : manage flags: set the boot and esp flag
fluid raven
I'll keep this saved, once I do actually need to run Linux I'll come back here
I managed to solve my problem with WSL, will prob stick to it for now
It's just really overwhelming seeing all these words I don't know what mean and how much is at risk
I do appreciate you tho, thx very much
Truly
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