Linux Mint installation program sees no existing OS.

Disregard the question below. I'm going to just try the built-in Ubuntu installer. I'm really surprised there is no installer for Mint. But, the Linux Mint community has very little info on running installing Mint on any VM. I think they expect Mint will be installed on bare hardware with an empty hard drive.

Hi Folks,

I downloaded the trial version of Parallels and I'm trying to load Linux Mint Cinnamon 16 as a guest operating system. The installation of Linux Mint starts and proceeds to a screen that says no existing OS was detected and asks if I want to erase the drive and install Mint. Will selecting this option truly erase the drive, or is Mint simply seeing a new partition as having no OS? I don't want to accidentally erase my MAC OS10 drive.

Thanks,
Rob

 

If it helps, I just installed mint from scratch and it works fine. Using the X64 version and parallels 9

Mike V.

 

Let me be a little clearer, what it is erasing is the virtual hard drive, not your physical hard drive.

Mike V