@Vrai unfortunately i know next to nothing about Mint ; slackware can be installed just to one partition and then uses that one partition to set up user directories. Does Mint have to have /home and /
if so she is short of one partition
@captain-sensible
I believe the easiest and most usual way to install Linux Mint is to put everything under " / " (root).
The /home will be placed under root as part of the installation. A "/ home " partition is
optional.
Take a look at the attached screenshot of GParted of the partition layout, mount points, and flags of the desktop I am
currently using.
There are four partitions including the swap partition.
Partition File System Mount Point Label Size Flags
/dev/sda1 ext4 / Mint 461.76 GiB boot
/dev/sda3 ext4 Play 435.39 GiB
/dev/sda4 ext4 /mnt/* Test 26.37 GiB
/dev/sad2 linux-swap 8.00 GiB
(well that's a bummer
had this all nice and organized but the forum software bunched it all up)
The "Play" partition has Blue Collar Linux installed on it and is used just for 'playing' with different distros. The 'Test' partition is just some 'left-over' space which comes in handy once in a while. The rest is pretty much self explanatory. The Linux Mint install is my 'daily driver' and has been installed and upgraded for several years.
The interesting thing is - my main Linux Mint install is on /dev/sda1 - the whole kit and kaboodle was installed on that one partition. That's where /home resides. No separate /home or /boot partitions. I've thought about separate partitions but just haven't seen the need as yet.
So - I think
@Vicktoria could try pointing her Linux Mint installer to sda3, designate the mount point of sda3 as " / " (root) , and click "
GO". Keep it simple. Might work - might not - but it seems like it is worth a shot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a shot of GParted on my "Test" box. A Dell Optiplex 7010 with an Intel Core i7 3770 - 8 GiB of DDR3 SDRAM - Intel Xeon E3-1200 graphics - and a 500 GiB SATA hard drive.
This machine has four Linux distros installed on it. This screen shot is of only 3 distros installed just prior to installing the fourth.
Notice the "Mount Point" and "Flags".
Everything works perfectly. The fourth Linux install was MX 19.1 (/dev/sda5). I specifically did not allow MX to install Grub because I wanted Grub on my Linux Mint install (/dev/sda1) to handle that. Installed MX - rebooted into Linux Mint and ran "update-grub". Everything worked - easy-peasy.