I have a multiboot system with four working linuxes and one working windows, and a linux swap, on a 10+ year old computer. I partitioned (with Gparted) about 4GB ext3 so I could install AntiX to the HD.

AntiX boots fine from my USB using isobooter script and works great. When I go to install to HD, I choose the Jessie option, and everything goes fine until I get to the part where it asks which partition I want to use. The only option is"sda", not sda11 or any other partition on the HD for that matter. The place where you choose a swap partiton has options, I think they were"none","use existing", etc.

What am I doing wrong? With me, it is usually something simple that only I can miss. Is there a boot parameter I should type in when booting from the USB?

Thanks for any help, I really like antiX!
John

The /dev/sda choice sounds like all that is being picked up is the live usb drive to install antix to as the target drive.

There is a mount all F key option at the boot grub screen that on the live boot screen. Have you tried it?

jaje wrote: AntiX boots fine from my USB using isobooter script and works great. When I go to install to HD, I choose the Jessie option, and everything goes fine until I get to the part where it asks which partition I want to use. The only option is"sda", not sda11 or any other partition on the HD for that matter. The place where you choose a swap partition has options, I think they were"none","use existing", etc.

If I remember correctly, when you start to install antiX it will ask you to choose a disk for installation (which is usually sda) and then allow you to partition the disk if needed. Then the next step is to choose the partition for your / root. Here's the video on installation.

I selected"mount-all" under F4, select sda as the installation disk, but it still only lets me choose"sda1" as my partition. Funny thing is that it lists the size of sda1 as the entire drive size. I hit the button that brings up gparted and when it comes up, even gparted is only seeing one partition on the entire drive, with all the other space as unallocated. I can reboot into the other partitions and they are still there...

I will try some other F4 options...

That was it! My partitions were messed up. It looks like it took me over a month, off and on, but I backed up each partition onto an external hdd, used gparted to"Create a new partition table," and created new neat orderly partitions, and restored my backups.

Now AntiX installed easily without problems!

WinXP I just copied to a folder on the external hdd and then copied it back. I had to edit the boot. ini file to change"partition(2)" to"partition(1)" in a couple of places because WinXP was on the second partition and now it's on the first. Windows doesn't know where it is all the time, I guess.

Thanks guys for pointing me in the right direction!
John