Hi,
I am a noob. I want to try out different linux distros by installing them to a dedicated external hard drive set aside for this purpose. The drive in question is a Toshiba 500GB 2.5" I yanked out of a Playstation 4 my nephew was discarding. The first thing I tried was to install Debian, but upon it booting up the installer I had no mouse control from my touchpad. I proceeded through the installation steps until I was at the screen where it was asking me what drive I wanted to use, I selected the proper drive and it was asking me about the partitions etc. I told it to make a primary partition that was 64GB in size, chose EXT 4, tabbed over to continue and hit enter and nothing happened. I was on the same screen with all the stuff i had selected showing and a back and continue button. I hit continue several times to no avail. What am i missing? Also, since i want to have several distros residing on that same drive, do i just create as many primary partitions as i need? Also, I would like all the distros to share a common swap file. Any advise? Thanks!
I am a noob. I want to try out different linux distros by installing them to a dedicated external hard drive set aside for this purpose. The drive in question is a Toshiba 500GB 2.5" I yanked out of a Playstation 4 my nephew was discarding. The first thing I tried was to install Debian, but upon it booting up the installer I had no mouse control from my touchpad. I proceeded through the installation steps until I was at the screen where it was asking me what drive I wanted to use, I selected the proper drive and it was asking me about the partitions etc. I told it to make a primary partition that was 64GB in size, chose EXT 4, tabbed over to continue and hit enter and nothing happened. I was on the same screen with all the stuff i had selected showing and a back and continue button. I hit continue several times to no avail. What am i missing? Also, since i want to have several distros residing on that same drive, do i just create as many primary partitions as i need? Also, I would like all the distros to share a common swap file. Any advise? Thanks!