Frugal Install with unetbootin - problems
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:29 am
I want to dual boot Windows 8 and Linux Mint. I shrinked the volume of the current (main) hard drive Windows 8 is installed to, allocating 100gb partition for Linux Mint. Used UNetBootin to boot into Linux Mint off of the hard drive without a usb or dvd. Worked fine, but trying to install is the hard part.
Trying to run the Linux Mint Install would give me an error message when it would say, "There is no root file system defined." Fixed that by manually partitioning /, /home, /swap, and /boot. Then, after trying to run the installer again, it would say something like, "/cdrom: device is busy." So, I tried unmounting it using GParted, then terminal, and finally was able to force unmount it by running, "sudo fuser /dev/sda2" (partition /cdrom is located on). I had to force kill the process id using, "sudo kill -9 <number here>"
Once the /cdrom partition was unmounted, I wasn't able to mount the root partition for installing to. An exclamation point in GParted listed under the /cdrom partition that unmounting can cause certain functions to not perform. Also, whenever I would try mounting or unmounting partition in the Linux Mint Installer, I would get a weird error that I wouldn't be able to close out of until I booted back up the Live Linux Mint.
The error message was this: "ubi-partmain failed with exit code 141." I know it's possible to install, but what is the solution?
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Trying to run the Linux Mint Install would give me an error message when it would say, "There is no root file system defined." Fixed that by manually partitioning /, /home, /swap, and /boot. Then, after trying to run the installer again, it would say something like, "/cdrom: device is busy." So, I tried unmounting it using GParted, then terminal, and finally was able to force unmount it by running, "sudo fuser /dev/sda2" (partition /cdrom is located on). I had to force kill the process id using, "sudo kill -9 <number here>"
Once the /cdrom partition was unmounted, I wasn't able to mount the root partition for installing to. An exclamation point in GParted listed under the /cdrom partition that unmounting can cause certain functions to not perform. Also, whenever I would try mounting or unmounting partition in the Linux Mint Installer, I would get a weird error that I wouldn't be able to close out of until I booted back up the Live Linux Mint.
The error message was this: "ubi-partmain failed with exit code 141." I know it's possible to install, but what is the solution?
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