Partition related help while installing Trisquel
I am trying to install Trisquel on a computer with Windoes Vista, two versions of Ubuntu, and one of gNewSense. I want to install it over the Ubuntu and gNewSense and leave Windows Vista (this is not my personal computer). Attached are screenshots of the partitions. How do I tell which one has the Wondows OS so I can format the other partitions that contain ubuntu and gNewSense?
Thanks!
I don't see the two screenshots that I attached... I hope you do. If not, I will retry attachingn them. I didn't check the List box, this may be why they're not visible...
You need to attach the images and then use the link above every textbox to show them.
Edit the topic and copy them using
[[Image:name]]
Changing "name" by the one that is showed above the textbox of each image.
And for the partitions that I chose to format, should I chosee to use them as: Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFS, btrfs, JFS, XFS, FAT 16, or FAT 32? I am sorry if all these are stupid questions.
OK, trying again to attach the screenshots... I hope this works
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OK, I think sda5, sda7, and sda9 have the gnewsense and ubuntu. So I will format them. How about the sda2, 8, and 10? Should I format them too? It says their type is SWAP or no type listed...
For the Swap you can remove since you will have at least one so you can create later after cleaning, but for the rest, the best you can do is, use the livecd to mount that partition and see what is inside, then it is up to you to decide if you can remove it or not.
Just remember,
Trisquel just need (for an acceptable minimum it can be less) 2 partitions :
- Ext4 / (for everything)
- Swap (for ... swap).
After that you will obviously need the NTFS partition for Windows.
I just can't understand what is the fat32 partition for, and what is the "unknown" partition for... maybe a recovery partition ? Try to see what is inside it, but if my (color) memory is right it is a Gnu/Linux Partition, just not known by gparted from Trisquel's Live CD
Thanks Aliasbody!
I just run the command "mount" in the terminal on the computer on which I am installing Trisquel now. I am now working off the CD. I think this is what you indicated. I get this:
trisquel@trisquel:~$ mount
/cow on / type overlayfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
/dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs (ro,noatime)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/trisquel/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=trisquel)
trisquel@trisquel:~$
Does it help?
And lastly, which device I chose for the boot loader installation?
1. sda
2. sda1 (Windows Vista Loader)
or something else?
Thanks!
That's not really what I've asked xD I asked you to enter directly into the partition if it was possible. And this using nautilus or the terminal like this :
mkdir /mnt/partition1
mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/partition (replacing X by the partition number)
ls /mnt/partition1
You need to install it on the /dev/sda so it could override the Windows MBR and use Grub instead. (Be aware that if you have a "non-official" copy of Windows re-replacing grub by MBR could make you loose the genuine state... But I never said that to you :D)
/dev/sda1 must be the "restore system" (not sure to remember how it is named) partition of Windows. /dev/sda2 is the Windows partition. You can delete everything other partition from GParted (including in the Live system) and relaunch the installer. As far as I remember, it will propose, among the automatic partitioning schemes, the installation of Trisquel in the free space.
You can choose to install GRUB in he MBR. This is the default choice and the simpler one (otherwise you may end up with two bootloaders after installing a second distributions).
I highlighted each partition (other than sda2 and 3) one at a time and then clicked on the delete button. That combined the blank partitions. Then I double clicked on the now combined partition and created root, home, and swap partitions, chose Logical partition, and all worked great! The wireless doesn't work, but I understand what this means from other forums here. I may have to invest in one of these wireless cards that support free software.
Thanks!