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#11 Post by **Jerry3904** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:57 am

Info on formating in gparted should probably be moved elsewhere

Not sure I get this: doesn't the user have to face this question at this point in the process, before installation?

#12 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:58 am

Jerry3904 wrote:
Info on formating in gparted should probably be moved elsewhere
Not sure I get this: doesn't the user have to face this question at this point in the process, before installation?

no. its already done in the step by step when you make partitions. gparted does the formating when you make the partitions in more handy step. and the installer reformats the root and swap partitions anyway. not sure about /home.

#13 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:08 pm

edit my post above with a more complete answer.

#14 Post by **lucky9** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:01 pm

I'd say it's unnecessary to separately format partitions that are going to be used to install MX. The Installer does this anyway.

#15 Post by **Jerry3904** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 2:26 pm

Info on formating in gparted should probably be moved elsewhere

After a couple hours thought and a workout over lunch, I am warming to this idea. In fact, I don't see why we should have this at all. GParted has its own documentation, and there must be a good YT video on creating a new partition, so I have concluded that it can all go and be replaced with some general statements, a caution or two, and a few helpful links. Reviewers have already indicated a number of problems with it, and I love anything at this point that reduces the work.

Anybody see a problem with doing that?

EDIT: well, it so happens that D-O has a good video from a year ago on creating a new partition for dual booting that we can use...

#16 Post by **Gordon Cooper** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:27 pm

Jerry3904 wrote: I have concluded that it can all go and be replaced with some general statements, a caution or two, and a few helpful links.

#17 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:36 pm

Jerry3904 wrote:

EDIT: well, it so happens that D-O has a good video from a year ago on creating a new partition for dual booting that we can use...

wow, I forgot about that one.

this one (Migration part II) has an extensive partition section in the first 6 minutes or so as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8eXhCKghg

#18 Post by **Jerry3904** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:52 pm

I'll look at that, thanks. Maybe we can split it off...

EDIT: yeah, that's good to put in there. Since that actually is MX 14, I'll probably remove the other one now.

#19 Post by **Gordon Cooper** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:33 pm

Do we need to mention the situation of a completely empty drive. No dual boot, just starting from nothing?

#20 Post by **Jerry3904** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:23 am

Have completely rewritten the section now, as you will see tomorrow--and an empty drive is included.

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