Installing Mint 13 + MATE alongside WindowsXP

[GaryWilliams]

Hi All,

I have setup a seperate partition for Linux (10GB). I booted from the CD and mint 13 ran up fine. I hit the 'install onto your hard disk' menu choice. When I answered the question regarding where to install mint, I pointed it to the new partition.

I then got the error message "No root file system (as superuser), correct from partition menu".

What is it talking about and how do I keep Mint happy without messing up my winsows installation?

Regards

Gary

[oobetimer]

I then got the error message "No root file system (as superuser), correct from partition menu".

root file system = / linux partition (ext2, ext3,ext4, etc)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... RDQ#t=365s

[GaryWilliams]

Thanks for the video link.

So, I remove the 10GB linux partition I set up so it becomes just free space then use the linux installer to set up the 3 logical partitions, yes?

Regards

Gary

[oobetimer]

Thanks for the video link.

So, I remove the 10GB linux partition I set up so it becomes just free space then use the linux installer to set up the 3 logical partitions, yes?

Regards

Gary

10 GB is so small that one linux-partition is enough and maybe a small swap-partition also.

[GaryWilliams]

Here's a good (text) article to backup the video.

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/06/06/ho ... ndows-7/2/

My linux is now installing!

Cheers

Gary

[GaryWilliams]

OK, so I have linux installed (I think) even though at the 'set user details' page the 'continue' button did not respond.

I finally found a tutorial to modify the XP boot loader as the 32bit version of mint 13 does not have a windows installer (why???)

Now I can select windows or linux. However, the linux choice runs up a screen just showing that damned grub command line (grub>)

So how do I get linux to run from here!

Frustrated

Gary

[oobetimer]

OK, so I have linux installed (I think) even though at the 'set user details' page the 'continue' button did not respond.

I finally found a tutorial to modify the XP boot loader as the 32bit version of mint 13 does not have a windows installer (why???)

Now I can select windows or linux. However, the linux choice runs up a screen just showing that damned grub command line (grub>)

If you did not install grub to MBR, you can boot Mint via XP´s bootloader. You have to copy Mint MBR´s 512 first bit to XP´s root (C:) and edit boot.ini file, adding a that 512 bit image.

A video about the prosedure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz_BKk-mKts&feature=plcp

BTW. You can boot Mint using SuperGrub2 also.
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/d ... kdownload/