I dont know what to do.. I dont have windows on my laptop, and want to put Mint on it..
I have the Live CD going..
But i dont know what to do.. The install that takes up my whole hard drive, or should i make different partitions and stuff?
I tried the whole hard drive, and it took forever to get to 5%..
I think it was 10 hours in totall...
What should i do?
Full Hard Drive Install?
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Re: Full Hard Drive Install?
For the best information on partitioning and installation read this thread:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... &sk=t&sd=a
It's long, but it's also packed with useful information. Read the entire thread and if you have questions, post them here or in "Newbie Questions" and someone will help.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... &sk=t&sd=a
It's long, but it's also packed with useful information. Read the entire thread and if you have questions, post them here or in "Newbie Questions" and someone will help.
Re: Full Hard Drive Install?
This happened to me once - it stalled at around 15%. The way around it for me was to partition the disk first and then do a manual install. You only need 3 partitions: "/", swap, and /home or /data. Tells us the size of your hard disk and you will get a dozen people to tell you how how they would partition it.
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Re: Full Hard Drive Install?
Never wait more than 5mins for something to happen for any OS installationbolle wrote:I tried the whole hard drive, and it took forever to get to 5%.. I think it was 10 hours in totall.
Even windows which seems to take about 45-60mins or so to install (winXP) gives you an install screen dialog within a minute or so, it slows/stalls or seems not to be doing anything while it operates in RAM as part of the installation
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Re: Full Hard Drive Install?
I just saw your other post: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=30552
Do you want to dual boot with WinXP?
Is this the same machine?bolle wrote:I accidentaly deleted Windows when i was in the Linux Mint Live CD..
And now Linux takes FOREVER to install.. Atleast 10 hours for 5%....
What should i do?
I have a Windows XP disc, and its formatting a partition now...
But its taking forever....
Should i just try and close the Windows setup and boot the Live CD and try and install again?
Do you want to dual boot with WinXP?
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Re: Full Hard Drive Install?
If you read the forum posts, you will find out, that with an error, and you have not said what the error was..bolle wrote:It said error, and wouldnt let me do it..
You need to check the partitions of your hard drive, then decide what you want to do do
- Fix window's installation errors
- Replace windows with Linux
--Linux is the only OS on the hard drive. There are sometimes difficulties with vendor supplied hidden windows restore partitions or utilities - Multiboot, sometimes called dual-boot with Windows + Linux
--the Mint side by side install into a partition or free space removed from the windows OS; since windows as supplied by the OEM takes up the whole of the available hard drive space, which makes perfect sense, since they are supplying a single OS