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antares

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Registered: 2019-01-24

Posts: 50

Very frustrated with partitioning

Hi !
Used older versions as Scorpion and Centaurus with preconfigured partitions during installation
Now would like to install Aquarius 5.6 on blank USB 32 GB but only manual partition is available and how to use it no idea
Checked youtube and others but to no avail

Insiallation variant is minimal all needed programmes are installed via synaptic later and 4 GB in total will be enough
The rest about 26 gb is resereved for downloads

Is it so problematic to keep in distro "standart" partitioning as before as an option to be able to pass through this stage for one click?
(This question is for developnent team)

Be so kind to explain clearly how to do manual partitioning step by step

Regards and thanks in advance

Last edited by antares (2024-10-23 03:37)

antares

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Registered: 2019-01-24

Posts: 50

Re: Very frustrated with partitioning

Could somebody help?

hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 521

Re: Very frustrated with partitioning

I don't understand what synaptic and downloads have to do with partitioning.

At least with the "live" media, you have 3 options: Replace a partition, Erase disk, Manual partitioning.
If your USB stick is empty, use Erase disk (be sure to have selected the USB stick, not your internal HD/SSD).
With the "install" media, there are chances the same options are available (I didn't check).

Of course, you'll need 2 USB sticks: one with the live media and one as installation target.

Note that several users have reported that the resulting USB stick will not boot. That is because the installer doesn't install GRUB on the USB stick. You'll have to setup GRUB manually on your USB stick. I don't know how to do that and my workaround was simply to remove my internal drive before beginning the installation process.

Last edited by hchiper (2024-10-24 09:10)

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