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LordElpus
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 Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:53 am Post subject: Installation problem - Mint12 |
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Hi there,
I am very new to Linux although I have tried a few Live CD's.
This time I wanted to set up a dual boot system with Mint 12 and followed the instructions in the magazine.
Unfortunately, when running the installer from the desktop, I only get two installation options - neither of which is to install Mint alongside Windows 7! The 'something else' option would be okay if I knew what I was doing.
I do have a Partition Manager but I am not sure how to proceed. Any help you could give would be appreciated, preferably in simple steps.
My machine is an Acer Aspire 5750 Laptop with an Intel Core i3-2310M processor, 4Gb DDR3 Ram and a 320GB HDD, running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
Thanks in advance
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ajgreeny
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps the disk in your laptop already has the maximum of 4 partitions on it.
From the live Mint DVD (LXF 154?) open a terminal and run the command which should show the internal computer disk and partitions on it.
We'll go from there, as it is impossible to give you a safe answer without more information.
(edited because fdsik is not a command )
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LordElpus
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| ajgreeny wrote: | Perhaps the disk in your laptop already has the maximum of 4 partitions on it.
From the live Mint DVD (LXF 154?) open a terminal and run the command which should show the internal computer disk and partitions on it.
We'll go from there, as it is impossible to give you a safe answer without more information.
(edited because fdsik is not a command ) |
Thanks for that. I have run the command with the following output:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1GB 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 6251424475 sectors
units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (maximum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk Identifier 0xde8d3a0f
Device Boot start end blocks id system
/dev/sda1 2048 31459327 15728640 27 hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 31459328 31664127 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 31664128 625139711 296737792 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Hope this is okay.
Gary |
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towy71
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Well you have room to make an extended partition which you can create logical partitions for a Linux install.
As you have a lot of space on /sda3 you should boot in to windows and use the window facility to shrink that partition (I'm not a windows user  )
Once that is done you can install Mint. nelz has already printed nice instructions with screenshots in LXF154
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LordElpus
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| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Excellent, that is good news. I will seek out the relevant information and get started.
Many thanks
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