Can't install Linux mint

[untold terrace]

So I was trying to Linux Mint 22 on the free space I have In a 1TB drive where there's already another version of Linux Mint installed but when I tried to start installing it showed the error "ubi-partman failed with exit code 10" but I continued anyways which showed it's installing but even after few hours it did not get installed

[austere imp]

that's an extremely weird partition layout and an unusual error. does restarting the pc and then running the installer again still throw the error?

[untold terrace]

yeah i tried 3 times

[austere imp]

are you pressing on something else in the partitioning screen?

[untold terrace]

last time i continued anyway and put it on install all night

[untold terrace]

no

[austere imp]

I'm not sure I understand at what point exactly you get the error

[untold terrace]

when I create the partition and install

@austere imp

should i do it again and show the screen shot?

[austere imp]

okay here's what you gonna do

in disks or gparted app, make a 256 MB partition and select it's type to be EFI

then make another one and select it to be ext4/btrfs and size whatever is left

[untold terrace]

it won't conflict with another efi partition on other disk right?

@austere imp

[austere imp]

it's seperate, that's the point

[untold terrace]

ohh

It has no efi type @austere imp

[austere imp]

select fat32 then

[austere imp]

hmm okay, I have no idea how to deal with this then

did you verify the image?

[untold terrace]

I think it's installing now

I removed the new ext partition

Restarted and went through the installation again

[mortal aurora]

what's the outcome?

[untold terrace]

I installed it and it's working fine!

I got so busy customising i forgot to thank @austere imp

Thanks a lot

@mortal aurora I'll post pics sometime later

[mortal aurora]

did u erase the old Mint?

[untold terrace]

nope it's still there

[mortal aurora]

yeah this is Mint 22. what's your Disks app show? just curious

[untold terrace]

i have the previous mint still there

[mortal aurora]

sorry i was blind. didnt notice 2nd pic

I think ur active EFI is still on the other disk. beware this may cause issues if u try to boot Windows and the external drive is not plugged in.

[untold terrace]

yeah it's on the other drive, but i have the hdd and ssd inside my pc so it won't be a problem

[mortal aurora]

ah ok

Im guessing the older Mint is on that 89 GB partition

[untold terrace]

yep i used it for a long time

i can't wipe it out yet cause i have work stuff in there

[mortal aurora]

I also see u switched your file manager to Nautilus

[untold terrace]

yess