10-24-2020, 08:26 PM
(10-23-2020, 01:08 PM)WytWun link Wrote: If the USB booted live system can see both drives I expect that there won't be a problem - the inxi tool is one means of checking what drives (inxi -D) and other devices are visible and this should be available on the live system. You would have to take the "something else" option at the disk partitioning step of the install to allow adding partitions on the second drive as file system mounts - if you remove any existing partitions on the second drive and convert it all to an ext4 partition you'd then specify a mount point for it.
My usual practice is to use something like /data (or /data1../datan for multiple "extra" partitions) and then create directories in these partitions for any users that need the space; the user then has a symbolic link "data" (or whatever name you prefer) in their home directory to their directory on the extra partition. Another approach sometimes used is to mount the extra partition as /home so all users home directories are there by default, leaving the SSD entirely for system purposes, though this can be more difficult to deal with if the second drive fails (your user won't have their home directory available). If you're prepared to play around with installing in VirtualBox (in Win10 if you wish) first you can easily simulate a 2 drive system and figure out the installation process before trying it on the hardware.
when i am ready to play in just live mode, i will look into it , had i known this new desktop PC had two different hard drive types , i would of never purchased it , ha ha, nothing wrong i guess in having 2 different operating systems, the only thing that really pissed me off about windows 10 is the huge windows updates, i like this new PC, fast and quiet, so i will wait till the other PC dies, ha ha , and be more wise when i replace that one. so for now , i have one fantastic Linux lite and one ok windows 10, ha ha . so i will try and mark this topic as resolved.
i want to thank you and every one for the useful info and replies.....