Post by Dan PurgertPost by Jeff GainesI want to install Linux with a 250 GB SSD for the OS and a 1 TB SSD for
Should be a pretty straightforward (albeit 2-step) process from within
the live session (installer). It also depends a little bit on what you
mean by "the data" -- for the rest here, I'm going to assume you mean
"user data" (i.e. home directories).
This is all done in the live session, there may be easier methods.
1. Install everything to the 250G drive, as per "normal" installation.
Do not reboot after the installer completes.
2. Manually format the 1T drive to EXT4 (use gparted).
3. Mount both the newly-installed ("NI") system and "data" drive.
4. Move the directory "NI"/home/username to "data"/username
5. Get the UUID of the "data" drive with lsblk
UUID=xxxxx /home ext4 defaults 0 0
7. Reboot into the newly-installed system
If you mean something else, please can you clarify / explain your
envisioned usage?
From memory, the above is more complex than it need be. IIRC Mint and
Ubuntu are similar, the latter being my current favourite distro ...
First a note to the OP, 250GB is way more than you need for an OS,
particularly Linux. Of course the disk space required will depend on
how much software you want to install, but as a guide:
Windows 7 through 10 64-bit with LOTS of software installed, but search
indexing, which consumes disk space like there's no tomorrow, disabled,
hibernation and paging (large files) enabled, 64GB is comfortably enough
for me, though occasional housekeeping is beneficial. This is double
what I found necessary for XP 32-bit with probably even more software
installed.
Linux Ubuntu 22 with a moderate amount of software installed and a
swapfile rather than a swap partition, 32GB is plenty for my needs.
As for how to install as you suggest, my instructions are more detailed
about the partitioning part of the installation. By default, Linux will
install to a single partition, but on the Debian line of distros, which
I think includes Mint, there is a particular stage in the process you
need to get right. I'm working from an XUbuntu 22 USB stick, but from
memory Mint is very similar ...
1) Boot from the USB and choose Install, though you can choose Try and
later Install from the Desktop icon.
2) Set the region/language
3) Make your own choices regarding installation size, downloading
updates for the installation, and 3rd party software. I tend to select
the latter as I've found sometimes that certain media files won't play.
CRITICAL SECTION!
4) Dialog entitled 'Installation Type', this is where you choose to let
Linux make all the decisions, or take control, and you need to do the
latter.
You must choose 'Something else'. A gparted-style partitioning window
appears. Select the disk and partition for the root installation, and
click 'Change' underneath the table, and you get to a dialogue entitled
'Edit the partition'. Change 'Use as' to ext4, optionally choose to
format the partition if it contains unwanted old files, and choose '/'
as the 'Mount point'. Click OK.
It's possible that at this point a confirmation dialog may come up:
'Write the previous changes to the disk and continue?', if so, not yet,
choose 'Go back'
Repeat the above for the data or home partition, but this time choosing
'/home' as the 'Mount point'. If already you have data on it, then you
will most probably want to choose NOT to format it, though be aware that
if, later in the installation, you choose a pre-existing username, that
user profile may get overwritten with possible loss of pre-existing data.
If the 'Write the previous changes ...' appears now, choose 'Continue',
otherwise choose Install under the partition table and it will then appear.
END OF CRITICAL SECTION!
5) From now on install as normal, the next stage is choosing the Time Zone.
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