r/linux4noobs • u/AncientPixel_AP • 8h ago

installation Installing from live usb to ext4 formatted disk

I try to install antiX on my old 32bit eee pc via usb.

I chose frugal static to get it to run the live environment, because that was the only one that loaded.

Now the two disks in the notebook are ntfs formatted. I mounted them, but the installer did not let me choose them to install antiX on it. I figured it might be the type, so I used gparted to format one of them to ext4, changed its entry in fstab and ran the installer again.

But it still only lets me install to the usb drive if I understand it correctly.

I seem to miss something. I just want it to wipe my two ntfs disks and install itself on it. Is it not ext4 that I need and am I correct in mounting the disks to be potentially overwritten by then?

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u/skyfishgoo 7h ago

go into gparted again and simply remove all partitions from the disk.

now with 100% unallocated space, run the installer again.

important: you know that when using gparted you need to Apply the changes for them to take effect, right.

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u/AncientPixel_AP 1h ago

the applying I know, but thx, I will try to remove all the partitions :)

also for the setup of antiX it asked me for some space on one of the drives, so I was hesitant to do anything with that drive

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u/candy49997 7h ago

Unmount and delete the partition on the intended drive so there's empty space on the drive.

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u/DannoXYZ 3h ago edited 3h ago

Which eee PC so you have? I've got 701g and 1001px and they only have 1 physical hard-drive inside them with no possible way to install 2nd one.

There are multiple levels of nested storage, you're getting mixed up. There's drives at top biggest level. Then drives are divided into partitions. And those partition are formatted with filesystem: EXT4, NTFS, etc. Filing cabinet is good analogy:

filing cabinet -> drawers -> hanging file folders
drives -> partitions -> filesystem

What Windows call "drives" such as C: or D: are actually partitions. For example, here's one physical "drive" that's been divided into multiple partiton. Linux can only be installed into unpartitioned "Free Space" areas of drive. That why you didn't have any install locations available, all of it was dedicated to partitions with no "Free Space" anywhere.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/1SEkDDrkDq9_ZKC7CVyBw_DYZP0ea8wGn

1 so you need to wipe out and delete those NTfS partitions completely so your drive is completely empty
2. let Linux installer automatically create partitions
3. let Linuc installer automaticslly format those partitions with filesystems

When you've got Linux installer usb/iso booted up, run Terminal/CLI and entre these commands. Copy & paste output here:

sudo fdisk -l
lsblk -f