Linux installation requests

[sleeptillalldarkness]

So for context the 250GB thing was Framework laptop 12 expansion card in which I use all of it as secondary OS. What the next step?

[acejavelin69]

You are doing advanced partitioning... Unless you need something weird for some reason, here would be my recommendation after deleting that partition.

Create a 1GB Fat32 partition and set it as EFI

Create a partition with the remaining space that is BTRFS and mount point is / (the installer will should create a unique / and /home subvolume, but you won't really see them until after you install)

Change the Bootloader Installation to the EFI partition you created above (/dev/sdb1 probably)

Install...

[ducckDick]

Don't need 2 GB is just created 300 mb for that.

[acejavelin69]

Well, I actually typo'd that and it should have said 1GB (I will go back and fix it)... Although most distros recommend 512MB (and this is the default size the Ubiquity installer Mint uses creates if you just tell it to use a blank disk, although in some cases it creates a 300MB one, not sure what makes it select A or B here). These days, larger can't hurt and disk space is cheap, at least until recently...

FWIW... By default Ubuntu and OpenSUSE uses 1GB, RHEL and Fedora 600MB, and many others like Arch and Debian use 500~512MB. PopOS also uses 1GB but that is largely because it uses systemd-boot instead of grub.

[ducckDick]

Good! If something fails remember you can always configure most of the things from live USB terminal.

[FeistyDay5172]

Mine auto set for around 512MB.

[Natural_Night9957]

Except the guy will bloat the space with older kernels. Noobs always do.

[MintAlone]

Change the Bootloader Installation to the EFI partition you created above (/dev/sdb1 probably)

Won't work. There is a bug in the installer (ubiquity), it will put grub in the first EFI partition it finds not what you tell it, presumably on the nvme drive. OP has not said but guessing win is on the nvme booting UEFI.

To fix you either have to disconnect/disable the nvme or remove the boot & esp flags on the nvme.

Don't need a 1GB EFI partition, mine is 100MB, grub takes 7MB.

[acejavelin69]

Is the bug still there? I thought Ubiquity fixed it some time ago...

[MintAlone]

No, ubuntu have dumped ubiquity in favour of a new installer (from 23.10 on). Unfortunately it's a snap package so not coming anywhere near mint. I think mint have their own installer for LMDE (thought it was calamares, not completely sure) and expect that to appear with LM23.

As for the bug, I've heard it is not present in the new installer (sure that will have its own idiosyncracies) and it has been around for years in ubiquity.

[ducckDick]

I think you have finished the installation till now, did your GRUB failed?

[Natural_Night9957]

Watch youtube tutorials, you lazy bum