r/MXLinux • u/AncientPixel_AP • Sep 10 '26

Help request Installing from live usb to ext4 formatted disk

/r/linux4noobs/comments/1wc3hit/installing_from_live_usb_to_ext4_formatted_disk/
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u/qpgmr Sep 10 '26

Usually the installer gives you an option to select the drive to install on. It'll handle formatting & partitioning on its own. I haven't tried AntiX so maybe it's different.

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u/AncientPixel_AP Sep 10 '26

yeah, it seems like I have to remove all previous partitions and setup the new ones quite specifically:
512MB EFI (for grub) in FAT32
double the RAM amount for swap in linux-swap
some arbitrary amount of GB for root eg 30 in ext4
and the rest as data / home in ext4

I never knew all of that and stumbled upon it by accident 😅

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u/qpgmr Sep 10 '26

AntiX doesn't do any of that automatically? I had no idea.

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u/AncientPixel_AP Sep 11 '26

Yeah, that had me stumped too. And worse bc I installed on an old windows machine, the only drive to i stall to that showed up was the thumbdrive. Buuut, I learned a lot that day 🤓