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I have never tried such a thing, but its generally frowned upon to remove things from /dev manually.
you could try doing a udev poweroff on the device. That might work.


udisksctl power-off -b /dev/whatever



I tried it but it's telling me that its not a usb device.

I eventually tried ...

If I delete the files
Will that have the effect of disabling the drive?

10-4 gotcha. quick tip...if the partitions on your windows drive are labeled, those labels will show up in the installer custom install partition selection boxes.


Thanks for the tip. I got confused with the ESP partition when I first installed MX and it installed the boot loader in the NVME ...

JayM wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:51 pm Unmount it in Thunar or gparted.

Thanks. I'll try that.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:51 pm why do you need to remove the nvme drive?

It has my Windows installation and I don't want to mess it up like I did before.

Hi, I wanted to know if there is a way to disable a drive in the Live session so that the installer and gparted will not detect the drive.

I'm just asking because it is tedious to physically remove a NVME drive and there is no option to disable it in bios.

I'm planning on installing the KDE beta bare metal on my machine. I just wanted to know if I can upgrade it to the final version once it is released.

For me, It has a lot of features built-in so you need less extensions, unlike Firefox which is only good once you have all the extensions.
I've never used firefox in it's stock configuration.

Thanks for the info. I'll look into doing a Frugal install.

It doesn't seem to let me select a specific partition though, it wants to use the whole disk.

Is it possible to flash the MX ISO image to a hard drive partition instead of a USB drive?
By that, I mean to flash it as a Live image and NOT a normal install.

I wanted to make a rescue partition with the live ISO image in case I break my system. I can easily boot the live partition and reinstall ...