{"id":144,"date":"2013-05-16T19:49:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.wordpress.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2013-05-16T19:49:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:49:43","slug":"error-stating-please-select-a-root-partition-before-proceeding-when-trying-to-install-to-a-selected-partition-in-manjaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Error stating &#8220;Please select a root (\/) partition before proceeding&#8221; when trying to install to a selected partition in Manjaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my hands on a Manjaro Linux distribution today and decided to install and play with it.<\/p>\n<p>I got confronted with the below error after running through the initial setup steps and trying to choose the partition that Manjaro needed to be installed to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exchangetimes.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/image-026.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-145\" alt=\"image-026\" src=\"http:\/\/exchangetimes.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/image-026.jpeg\" width=\"430\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After trying a few things and lots of disk partitioning I found how to install Manjaro to the root partition as shown in the short video below. This would hopefully save you some time and get to installing and enjoying Manjaro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AM_qzG6brZQ\">[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AM_qzG6brZQ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my hands on a Manjaro Linux distribution today and decided to install and play with it. I got confronted with the below error after running through the initial setup steps and trying to choose the partition that Manjaro needed to be installed to. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; After trying a few things and lots of disk partitioning I found how to install Manjaro to the root partition as shown in the short video below. This would hopefully save you some time and get to installing and enjoying Manjaro. [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AM_qzG6brZQ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[35,367],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-manjaro","tag-please-select-a-root-partition-before-proceeding","tag-manjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}