SSD and HDD

[JonMal]

I am trying to install LM on a 32G SSD and set my 500G HDD as my data area. I have tried following a number of posts but keep failing. I am a complete beginner so sorry for dumb questions. I found this post which seemed the easiest to understand - viewtopic.php?t=259804

Following solution posted by prestonR. Is there any documentation explaining the "something other" dialog?

My questions - exactly how do I :-

>>set/create your '/' root partition by clicking on your SSD. Not sure what I should see.

>>point grub install to the root of your SSD, like 'sda' or, if you have an 'uefi' bios, to the 'efi' boot partition, e.g sda1

[spamegg]

Click "Something Else" and "Continue"

Right-click on the device, click "New Partition Table"

Click "Continue" at the warning

[spamegg]

Click on "free space" then click the + sign to create a new partition on it

In the "Mount point" box, select "/" then click OK

Click "Install Now"

[spamegg]

To know which drive is which /dev/sda etc. you can use the Terminal commands lsblk or blkid during the live session. For example I have this:

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 ➜ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0 465,8G  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    0 465,8G  0 part /media/spamegg/Samsung850EVO
sdb           8:16   0 238,5G  0 disk 
└─sdb1        8:17   0 238,5G  0 part /
sdc           8:32   0   477G  0 disk 
└─sdc1        8:33   0   477G  0 part /media/spamegg/CrucialMX100
nvme0n1     259:0    0 465,8G  0 disk 
└─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0 465,8G  0 part /media/spamegg/Kingston

[motoryzen]

@Jonmal

I am a complete beginner so sorry for dumb questions.

It's all good good man. All of us were the noobs once also. Adding to Spamegg's info about terminal commands. Usually that terminal is already on the Panel at the bottom ( windows users would call this the taskbar), or you could always press keyboard combination of holding ctrl, and holding alt, and pressing T button to launch a Terminal Window

[JonMal]

Thanks @spamegg One step up the learning ladder.