how install trisquel on a partition?
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trisquel 11.0.1 iso
Installing from an usb stick on a hdd.
Hdd has 4 ext4 partitions. Each partition is 40gb.
During installation at installation
type I select something else.
Then a window named installation type displays.
One of the partitions listed is named /dev/sdb1 ext4 40gb.
How do I install trisquel on /dev/sdb1 such that
/dev/sdb2, /dev/sdb3 and /dev/sdb4 are left
alone? Thank you.
You can ask / to be on /dev/sdb1. If you want more partitions (typically a swap partition and/or a separate /home), you should remove /dev/sdb1 and create the desired partitions in the liberated space. All that can be done from the partitioning tool the "Something else" type of installation provides.
maybe I have approached this matter the wrong way. I want to
have a hdd having installed several gnulinux
systems side by side. I thought the way to go
was to create 40gb ext4 partitions on a hdd
and then install a gnulinux system on each partition.
Then how should I go about this? I once managed to install several gnulinux
systems on a hdd side by side. Then I installed another gnulinux
system which deleted all the other gnulinux systems. That
is what I want to avoid. Can you give instructions?
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I once managed to install several gnulinux systems on a hdd side by side. Then I installed another gnulinux
system which deleted all the other gnulinux systems. That is what I want to avoid. Can you give instructions?
Instructions probably depend on which GNU/Linux distros you are trying to install and on whether your computer boots with BIOS or UEFI. Besides, even when a distro does not delete another one, it may change GRUB configuration so that you can't boot the other distro by default. This may happen immediately but this may also happen later, when an update of GRUB configuration is triggered.
In my past experience, installing Trisquel and Debian to the same disk of a computer booting with BIOS was easy. I previously tried installing Trisquel and Parabola on the same disk, after I installed the second one (I can't remember in which order I did), the first one was not deleted but it would not boot anymore. I guess it would have been possible to fix it but I was no so patient so I gave up.
Another thing I tried is installing two Trisquel on two different disks on the same computer that boots with UEFI. After the second Trisquel was installed, there was no option to boot the first one anymore. I had made two different EFI partitions, I investigated a bit but I was also not so patient there so I gave up.
EDIT: I found https://askubuntu.com/questions/1329599/dual-boot-two-linux-distributions-on-one-disk but I have no clue whether the suggestion works or not.
As I tried to explain in my previous post, the simplest installation would be to just ask for / on /dev/sdb1. To do so from the partitioning step of the "Something else" type of installation:
- click on the line corresponding to the device /dev/sdb1;
- Click on the "Change..." button;
- Choose "/" for the "Mount point" in the window that opens;
- Click on the "OK" button;
- Click on "Install now".
Those more precise instructions are based on that old screenshot, but I doubt the interface has changed since then: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZtFLd0UZcMwI-l4eNbXBSkSLWLcHWptRXg6PQ048bvGSQNgx-gpxaGE4wYdjwGAli3sIJKZTPijKc-Uu73llyKwNO_BbAhRd_V5KBYgq6zVQr3Z...
Doing so, you will have no swap and everything (including the user data) will be on /dev/sdb1. You may want a small swap partition (assuming you do not want to hibernate) that all your GNU/Linux systems can share. You may also want to have a single /home partition that is common to all the systems. I was doing that some 15+ years ago (gosh, I am old) with no issue, as long as the users have the same ids on all systems (Blag, derived from Fedora, used to start the UID at 500 instead of 1000). There may be issues though, if different versions of a same application are installed on your systems and if the format of its configuration file has changed between those versions.
At the partitioning step of the "Something else" type of installation, the "+" and "-" buttons respectively create and delete a partition (well, all that is done after confirmation of the whole partitioning scheme). The type of the partition must be "swap" for a swap partition (obviously) and can be ext4 for any other partition. If you want to reuse an existing /home, double check that the partition with that mount point has "Format?" *un*checked.