This guide walks you through automatic partitioning with advanced options for your PikaOS installation.
Please see the automatic installation guide for basic automatic partitioning.
During installation you will be provided the option for an automatic or manual installation. For this guide we will be selecting the upper listed option "Automatically Partition The Drive" as seen below:
You will be required to select a disk to install the system into. Select the yellow box currently labeled (No Disk Selected for Installation)
A window will appear allowing you to select a disk to install your system.
It should be noted that this will erase all the data on the disk and cannot be undone.
***Before installing, it is your responsibility to back up all data. ***
By selecting the "Advanced Options" button, a new window will open:
PikaOS offers three filesystems for use:
Select your preferred filesystem by selecting the circle to the left of your choice.
PikaOS offers three options for Home Directory Seperation Options
(no seperate Home Directory)
(a subvolume on the disk will be created for the Home Directory)
(a seperate partition will be created for the Home Directory)
Select your preferred Home directory structure by selecting the circle to the left of your choice.
PikaOS offers three options for the swap size
(no swap file will be created. Swap will be handled by Zram)
(a swap file will be created equal to half of the installed system Ram)
(a swap file will be created equal to all of the installed system Ram)
(the user will manually select the swap file size in full gigabyte increments)
Select your preferred Swap size by selecting the circle to the left of your choice.
PikaOS offers several additional boot options for ease of use ans compatibility.
Select the "Boot" button to the left of "Partitioning" to see these options:
PikaOS provides options during installation to manage how its default bootloader, ReFind , is displayed during boot.
(ReFind will not display during boot and the user will be automatically booted into the last loaded system unless the user manually pushes the arrow keys to force the display of ReFind)
(ReFind will display at each boot per its default configuration)
(ReFind will display at each boot with the timeout in seconds manually selected by the user)
Select your preferred ReFind boot option by selecting the circle to the left of your choice.
¶ A Note For MSI Motherboards
If you are installing PikaOS to a MSI Motherboard or Laptop system, please select the "BOOTX64 Mode (MSI Compatibility Mode)" found in Advanced Options / Boot
After selecting your disk for installation continue by pressing the yellow arrow to the right of the installer and you will be greeted with a summary of the changes.
Ensure that everything listed is accurate and then select the red (Confirm & Install PikaOS) button.
Continue to the next section of the installation wiki