On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:43 PM, kenneth gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 08:09 -0400, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: >> > this is my current partition - when I tried the dual boot, I had 40 >> GB >> > of free space also. >> > >> > >> post the output of 'blkid' (as root) to know current partitions >> alongwith >> filesystem status. > > [root@xlquest lawgon]# blkid > /dev/sda1: UUID="00de097a-9323-433f-83a9-1858f44602d0" TYPE="ext4" > /dev/sda2: UUID="b86bef0e-3402-41b2-b814-3e9f870fb2f7" TYPE="ext4" > /dev/sda3: UUID="1c6294e2-e738-4282-b666-0a783988dd08" TYPE="swap" > /dev/sda5: UUID="b81886a1-ffd8-4e1c-a8b2-f9a0599768c5" TYPE="ext4"
I guess Mint installer is looking for a partition w/o any filesystem on it. Your /dev/sda5 has an ext4. You can "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda5 count=2048" this will blow away the first 2048 bytes on /dev/sda5 blowing away some of the filesystem data. Alternately, like it's upstream installer (Ubuntu), there ought to be either a "Manual" or an "Expert" mode on the disk partition page wherein you can select /dev/sda5 for the "/" partition. -- Arun Khan "As a layman, I would say we have it, but as a scientist I have to say, 'What do we have?'" Rolf Heuer, Director General CERN on the announcement of the Higgs Boson particle. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
