[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Aaron Kulkis]

rstaff wrote:
> I went ahead, used GParted to format the whole 2nd drive for Linux as an ext4 partition.
> I then copied the /home directory and its contents (i.e., "/ricky") to disk #2.
> I went through several editing sessions with the /etc/fstab file.
> With every reboot, Linux Mint failed to find "/home/ricky

everytihng that was in your home directory is now in /home

you should make a home directory, /home/ricky
and then move all of the contents of /home (except for ricky) into ricky





> I gave up.
> Now going through a reinstall of Linux Mint 17.
> This time, the Linux Mint installer recognized the second drive as sdb1 and appears to have allowed
> /home to be applied as a mount point.
> Installation still running, will provide update when done.
> Thanks,
> Rick Staff
>
> On 07/17/2014 11:23 PM, Harry Burleson wrote:
>>> During a Linux Mint 17 install, I keep getting an error that says
>>> "/home" is outside the allowed space.
>>> Huh???
>> I have not encountered this error but I suspect the installer is complaining
>> because you are trying to install your Linux system across two disk drives.
>>
>> If you want to use two drives try installing root and home partitions on disk
>> #1 . Then after you have a working Linux system create only a file system (use
>> GParted) on disk #2. Create a mount directory and mount the file system on disk
>> #2 to the mount directory. You will need to edit /etc/fstab . If you want to
>> expand the size of /home you can get creative with symbolic links.
>>
>> As an alternative, after a successful installation on disk #1, you can use a
>> live distro: Pmagic, Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc. Then with Gparted move the /home
>> partition to disk #2 and edit /etc/fstab .
>>
>> Harry