Ok.....what did I miss? I installed Mint on to my 128GB usb stick. I partitioned a system partition of 8GB, an extended partition of 110GB, and a swap partition with the remaining 5 or 6 GB.
It seemed to install well, I restarted, selected my user name and put in my password. When I go to the file system I can see the 8 GB it's installed on, and it correctly tells me there is 6.5 GB free here. I can see my 160GB Windows hdd, and it correctly says I have 80GB free there. But when I open the "Computer" icon and double click on the usb stick, it says it cannot mount. If I try to drill into the root folder it says I do not have root permissions.
I assume I need to redo the install to acquire the correct permissions... I have a feeling someone tried to warn me about this in another thread....
And is that the best way to partition out the space on my stick? Maybe I should just make the whole thing one big partition? Or install to a smaller stick (I have a 64GB and an 8GB) and use the 128GB for file space only.
It seemed to install well, I restarted, selected my user name and put in my password. When I go to the file system I can see the 8 GB it's installed on, and it correctly tells me there is 6.5 GB free here. I can see my 160GB Windows hdd, and it correctly says I have 80GB free there. But when I open the "Computer" icon and double click on the usb stick, it says it cannot mount. If I try to drill into the root folder it says I do not have root permissions.
I assume I need to redo the install to acquire the correct permissions... I have a feeling someone tried to warn me about this in another thread....
And is that the best way to partition out the space on my stick? Maybe I should just make the whole thing one big partition? Or install to a smaller stick (I have a 64GB and an 8GB) and use the 128GB for file space only.
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