08-22-2014, 11:09 AM
frank4360,
Good post! I've seen many, many people in the Mint forums who made same choice from the installer and ended up wiping out everything too. Clearly, that option doesn't accurately describe exactly what it will do. Safest bet is definitely to choose "Something else" so one can manually direct the installer.
On a different note, now that you have LL 2.0 installed on what I imagine is a UEFI based computer, I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind posting back with output from a couple of commands. I don't have a UEFI computer myself, but have been curious to see if LL is capable of installing in UEFI mode even though installing in that mode is "not supported". It's possible you installed in Legacy mode on the computer. The output from following commands will tell us which mode it installed in and show current partition structure:
Good post! I've seen many, many people in the Mint forums who made same choice from the installer and ended up wiping out everything too. Clearly, that option doesn't accurately describe exactly what it will do. Safest bet is definitely to choose "Something else" so one can manually direct the installer.
On a different note, now that you have LL 2.0 installed on what I imagine is a UEFI based computer, I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind posting back with output from a couple of commands. I don't have a UEFI computer myself, but have been curious to see if LL is capable of installing in UEFI mode even though installing in that mode is "not supported". It's possible you installed in Legacy mode on the computer. The output from following commands will tell us which mode it installed in and show current partition structure:
Code:
[ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo "EFI boot on HDD" || echo "Legacy boot on HDD"Code:
sudo parted -l
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