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 Advanced Partitioning Tool for LMDE installs

Created 10 months ago, edited 8 months ago.
Status changed 7 months ago
Author:

timothy23
Status:
Under dev. review 		  Score:
 16
21 votes
Idea:

GNU's GParted does not provide everything you need when doing a new install on a fresh LMDE box. In the end, I abandoned Debian for Ubuntu (reluctantly) because Ubuntu's Advanced Partitioning Tool provided for the following:
Flawless recognition of other OSes and existing partitions/filesystems.
Partition creation AND mounting for specific directories (/, /boot, /home, /var, and so on). With gparted you're stuck with setting one or two lame 'flags' rather than mounting and you have no advanced options to tweak.
Painless (actually 'brainless, nearly automatic') setup for Windows' MBR and LM's Grub2.

I tried creating a dual-boot (Windows 7 / LMDE) with a shared NTFS data partition first using GParted. I knew I wanted certain partitions on the Linux side. After the initial GParted attempt then starting from scratch three times, finally gave up and used the Maya distro based on Ubuntu. Advanced Partitioning Tool did the trick. Within minutes I had a properly partitioned and mounted system that did everything I needed right at install.

NEW IDEA: How about porting Advanced Partitioning Tool over to LMDE for those of us who want what Linux Mint + Debian has to offer without needless install complications?

Comments:

9 months ago

timothy23
vincentv - As I tried to explain, the 'Something Else' option was there on LMDE during install but did not allow for mounting options beyond /home and maybe one other--'Something Else' simply didn't do much for me; it also was basically non-functional in terms of really setting up multiple partitions themselves. Ubuntu's Advanced Partitioning Tool is much more powerful and efficient. Thus, my idea:

How about porting Advanced Partitioning Tool over to LMDE for those of us who want what Linux Mint + Debian has to offer without needless install complications?

Bottom line: GParted is lame when it comes to doing multiple partions and mounts during install, perhaps especially on multi-boot systems. Advanced Partition Tool does everything perfectly. 		 
9 months ago

timothy23
Yes ringo32 - All that partitioning and mounting can indeed be done later. But why not make it simple for anyone regardless of skill level to get their system installed and set up right from the start?  
9 months ago

timothy23
To clarify: I tried installs opting for the 'Something Else' method which never took me to any other way to do an install beyond the basic gparted method. There were no additional links to click on, nothing to get me to more advanced partitioning and mounting (at least for the Debian install). However, the Mint based on Ubuntu install worked like a charm with the advanced options. The Advanced Partitioning Tool apparently only works for Ubuntu based installs but not for Debian based ones.  
9 months ago

ringo32
i lately installed LMDE works fine too me, but the installation procedure might be better, i habe two HDD, sda and sdb and sdb is bigger than sda, i trying to make /home for sdb it doesnt work.., i know i read you can change after.. but its better to make a better installation for that... lmde feels better then ubuntu based mint, better for mint to go rolling, :), only problem for the software database i gues?
  

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