Pop!_OS manual install help.

[foggy marlin]

Hello all, i'm working on configuring my computer for duallboot with Pop!_OS and windows 11 and am looking for help. Yes i'm aware Pop!_OS will break my windows bootloader and that it will need fixing, that's another help post for another time. Right now i'm looking for help configuring my drive partitions for install of Pop!_OS. for context, I have an ASUS Proart PX13 laptop with a 1TB NVME, currently taken up by windows 11 and relevant partitions, as well as a failed attempt at installing Linux Mint Cinnamon and relevant partitions, and a little bit of unallocated space. Any help and advice welcome.

[lapis verge]

according to the lsblk shown above, p5 on nvme is your OEM (Asus) recovery stuff

[lapis verge]

well is it progressing?

[foggy marlin]

So far so good. Just opened manual install screen

[foggy marlin]

So, are there any partitions i need to add?

[lapis verge]

you'll want to tell it the root partition to install Pop OS on is sda6 and bootloader (i think it uses systemd, not grub) is to go on the existing ESP, partition 1 of nvme

mountpoint for root is to be /

sorry not sda6

nvme0n1p6

[foggy marlin]

Oh, crap. I deleted p6 to get rid of mint. Do I need to make a new p6 real quick?

what formatting should it be? Ext4?

[lapis verge]

it should have u do so in the installer

yes

if it's anything like the Mint installer, you have to click + to add a partition

[foggy marlin]

Not directly, I have to click manage partitions and make a new one

[foggy marlin]

Ok, so have to mount a root, home, and boot in seperate partitions? What space am I wanting optimally for each of those? What are they doing? I know boot is gonna be the bootloader.

[lapis verge]

u dont have to do anything but root and efi

[foggy marlin]

Oh, ok

Then what is /home

[lapis verge]

separate home

not really needed

[lapis verge]

hence why i whited it completely out in this pic

[foggy marlin]

Ok. So I have a root and boot partition set, but the instal option isn't click able. And the root partition has an exclamation.

[foggy marlin]

;

Oh crap it cropped weird

[lapis verge]

can u please show FULL pic

[foggy marlin]

Format is not turned on for either

[lapis verge]

i dont like this

[foggy marlin]

Ah, found the error. P1 is too small it says

[lapis verge]

back out

back out and save absolutely no changes

then open gparted and show the drive in question there

if you can't back out, kill the installer program

ctrl-alt-t (for terminal) , xkill and click on installer

@foggy marlin

hope xkill exists in this :#

[foggy marlin]

Xkill worked. Here's the gparted

[lapis verge]

thats parted

[foggy marlin]

Oh, mb

[lapis verge]

minimize that and do gparted from the app grid

[lapis verge]

right click p6 : Delete

[foggy marlin]

Done

What was wrong with it?

Unless I did it wrong, that was the partition you told me to make.

[lapis verge]

im gonna suggest make separate ESP then unflag the other

but idk if u started the install already and it wiped nvme0n1p1 or not

search the app grid for Disks app

[foggy marlin]

I did not. As mentioned above it wouldn't let me cause p1 was too small for the boot

[lapis verge]

alright hopefully it's fine then

let's check anyway

[foggy marlin]

I'm in disks

[lapis verge]

in terminal do sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp && sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/tmp

^^

then sudo nautilus after

[foggy marlin]

&& specifying they are 2 seperate commands?

As in do them separately?

[lapis verge]

then in admin nautilus file manager, you should be able to navigate the Filesystem to /mnt/tmp

there u can dig around and make sure the Microsoft folder is still there

and the efi files within that allow your Windows to boot

[foggy marlin]

Ok, I tried this and it did nothing. Just immediately jumped to a new terminal line.

Oh, wait, tried again and it said file exists, guess it just doesn't give any feedback

[lapis verge]

.

[foggy marlin]

Did this. Opened file explorer, there's only 1 file labeled installer.log

[lapis verge]

can even do sudo nautilus /mnt/tmp for direct navigation to it

press ctrl-L , wipe the address bar empty, then put /mnt/tmp

[foggy marlin]

Ok

[foggy marlin]

Still there

[lapis verge]

aight

close the file manager and unmount the ESP

u can just click the stop button in DISKS app

[foggy marlin]

Done

To solve the space issue, can I just expand it?

[lapis verge]

show gparted now after clicking the big checkmark in its toolbar

[lapis verge]

right click the unalloc'd : NEW

new size: 1024 MiB filesystem type: fat32 partition name ESP2 label: ESP2

[foggy marlin]

Done. Apply changes?

[lapis verge]

yes

then you'll need to manage flags for it

add the esp and boot flags

then manage for p1 and take those two same flags off of it

[foggy marlin]

Done

[lapis verge]

then after the 1 gig ESP2, make the remain unalloc'd as ext4

then show final pic

[foggy marlin]

Don't know why but it isn't a /dev partition?

Or is it cause I haven't applied yet

[lapis verge]

having the exclamation mark in the label name may be brutal

[foggy marlin]

Why?

[lapis verge]

fk around and find out

[foggy marlin]

Fair'nuff changed to just popOS for both.

[lapis verge]

i'd suggest change it

[foggy marlin]

Anyway, applying

[lapis verge]

ok hit the big checkmark

[foggy marlin]

Done

Now install root and boot to P7 and P6 respectively?

[lapis verge]

so manual installer, tell it p7 for root (/) and p6 for boot

[foggy marlin]

Cool. And then i'll have to move the windows boot stuff at some point?

[foggy marlin]

Done. Send it?

[lapis verge]

eh u may either put flags back LATER, or find out how systemd boot works and if it can add a boot entry

and scan for and add Windows

[foggy marlin]

Ok. That's another help post if it comes to it though.

[lapis verge]

if not, readd the flags to p1, and u'll only be able to use the quickboot key ur motherboard uses to choose an OS

[foggy marlin]

Wouldn't putting flags back be bad? I thought you said i shouldn't have 2 ESP's?

Oh, ok

[lapis verge]

well it generally is bad but ...

hopefully quickboot key would distinguish

[foggy marlin]

Is quick boot different than the BIOS boot menu like used to get to the live environment? Or is that what you're referring to

[lapis verge]

that sort of thing

[foggy marlin]

Ok, yeah, what i was thinking of

Booted to desktop!!!

Checking for updates now. Will I need to do drivers as well? Actually MB, this is all stuff for google

[lapis verge]

well you'll want to check if the graphics were set up right . do inxi -MGxxx and share result @foggy marlin

[foggy marlin]

Terminal says Command not found

[lapis verge]

has the updater finished? if so, do sudo apt install inxi

then the prior command

[foggy marlin]

It has, give me a sec

[foggy marlin]

Looks like the drivers are already installed (i picked the pop os with nvidia iso)

[lapis verge]

press enter

[foggy marlin]

Did

[lapis verge]

.

your monitor should show its brand name here and resolution if was set up right

[lapis verge]

and a numeric nvidia driver shown next to driver

[foggy marlin]

I'm assuming it's the "Monitor-1" information?

[lapis verge]

yep. strange no OpenGL stuff

you'll want to check 'nvidia settings' in the app grid to ensure that's around

[foggy marlin]

It's here

[lapis verge]

and set the nvidia to fulltime use or on-demand

[foggy marlin]

Where at?

[lapis verge]

games may have to launch with a setting to force dedicated gpu , or the fullltime thing must be on

idk u'll have to study it

and see official manual of Pop OS if they provide one

and the business about OpenGl

[lapis verge]

btw, for a 13 inch screen, the current resolution is stupidly high. (not good)

turn way down

[foggy marlin]

To be clear that's my actual screen resolution. Can I just change that value in the terminal by editing the stuff it spat out? Or do I need to do a terminal command.

[lapis verge]

nah all GUI

just find the settings app which all distros and desktops come with

[foggy marlin]

Ok, thanks. Sorry. Should looked for that first

[foggy marlin]

Ok, just making sure I understand. The resolution setting only affects UI elements? Or will it affect the entire display, like for instance if i'm gaming.

[foggy marlin]

I think it's set to fulltime by default. Nvidia setting says it's under a little bit of load right now

[lapis verge]

all ofc

that or u gotta do font size changes (massively)

or UI display scale changes unless u like microscopic icons and text

[foggy marlin]

Well I understand having to change UI scale, I mean if I have my resolution set to say 1920 × 1200, will that lock the entire display to 1920 × 1200, stopping me from playing steam games at the 3k my screen is made for?

[foggy marlin]

;

[lapis verge]

u have a 13 inch screen

that's reasonable to play at 1080 vertical, and even THAT will look small in a game

just an observation

if u wanna play stuff native res where everythings super tiny that's ur prerogative

[foggy marlin]

I always play stuff at native resolution and just tweak the UI scale via in game settings.