Greetings. I'm currently going through the installation process. I selected the new drive and created a partition table, but I'm unsure of what partitions to create, besides the main one. The plan is to keep windows on the main drive and install Mint on the secondary one.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
#New to linux, trying to install Mint on secondary drive
wintry sleet
surreal bluff
Greetings. I'm currently going through the installation process. I selected the ...
i would recommend this:
run sudo parted -l and show the result from a maximized terminal
(you have to be in linux live desktop)
wintry sleet
can I do that while the installation window is open? Or should I abort the install and run that command first?
surreal bluff
can I do that while the installation window is open? Or should I abort the insta...
dont do it if u already ran up the installer and it's copying files
if it's not, just back out of installer to page 1
then show the thing
wintry sleet
page one is the language chooser right?
surreal bluff
tag me when u have the info onscreen here
wintry sleet
ok thing is I'm on discord on a second computer, can't quite take a screenshot, I can copy the text though, it's not that long
surreal bluff
oh
sign in on the live system . discord.com on firefox
then u can just printscreen it
surreal bluff
u want to install onto the Kingston SA400 right?
wintry sleet
correct
surreal bluff
looks like Windows was a legacy-run install
do efibootmgr
do u see 'boot current'?
wintry sleet
done
wintry sleet
got it
wintry sleet
yes
wintry sleet
ok
surreal bluff
done?
wintry sleet
done
surreal bluff
close gparted
follow last paragraph of this: (select the big free space under sdb in the installer chart) #1296130276514332742 message
wintry sleet
this showed up when accepting the multimedia codecs, shall I say no?
wintry sleet
ok I created the / partition, can I proceed?
surreal bluff
yeah if u set it up as the manual said exactly
review the whole paragraph
and ensure its' done
wintry sleet
I did, though the manual mentions dev/sda, it should be dev/sdb for me right?
surreal bluff
yes
for the bootloader and all that
then click 'install now' if u set sdb1 up with an ext4 partition mounted to /
wintry sleet
ok done
surreal bluff
then give it about 25 minutes
wintry sleet
uhh something went wrong, I got the "remove installation medium then press enter" prompt while I was choosing the username/password
surreal bluff
huh
yikes
is the usb loose in the port? cuz that's very bad
i guess restart the whole process again.
wintry sleet
well at least now I know what to do step by step, thanks for your help, I'll try again.
wintry sleet
well, install is apparently complete, clicked to restart, removed the usb drive, pressed enter and now I'm getting a constant loop of what appears to be a squashfs error
surreal bluff
well, install is apparently complete, clicked to restart, removed the usb drive,...
ignore that.
just force shutdown with power button
wintry sleet
ok thanks
wintry sleet
ok I will do that, thanks again
hm, it appears my pc boots straight into windows with no regards for boot order
wintry sleet
weird, I pressed F1 at start, and the boot manager only has one boot option (windows)
surreal bluff
did u set the bootloader in the linux install to sdb
wintry sleet
I did
surreal bluff
i guess u could run the usb up and the boot repair tool
or check bios first
make sure other drives are allowed to boot
and that kingston is at top of list
wintry sleet
bios only shows three boot options, internal hard drive, internal optical disc drive and external device
I can rearrange the order but windows will always boot by default
surreal bluff
this a desktop computer?
wintry sleet
no it's a laptop
surreal bluff
so are you using some bay adapter to fit the other hdd in it?
or did it just have two hdd's PLUS an optical drive as well?
wintry sleet
no I replaced the optical drive
surreal bluff
yeah so put 'optical drive' to top of list
and if it doesn't work, then i've seen this case before. those bay adapters always stink
wintry sleet
I did, windows still booted up first
surreal bluff
they're only good for data drives purely.
wintry sleet
well I suppose I can swap the drives
surreal bluff
u can swap the hard drive positions yeah
wintry sleet
well will try that tomorrow, once again thanks for your help
wintry sleet
holy, the hdd's caddy screws are impossibly tight
wintry sleet
got them
ok I swapped the drives, now the laptop is booting... windows
will try to physically remove the hdd and boot without it
well that did the trick
it appears that as long as the old windows drive is plugged in, it will boot straight to windows no matter what
surreal bluff
if you really need both OS, then use Supergrub2 bootable usb to attempt to boot linux
wintry sleet
It's not that I need both OS, I simply wanted to keep the old drive safe, what better place than inside the machine?