On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, kenneth gonsalves
<lawgon at thenilgiris.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:56 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
[root at xlquest lawgon]# blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="00de097a-9323-433f-83a9-1858f44602d0" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="b86bef0e-3402-41b2-b814-3e9f870fb2f7" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: UUID="1c6294e2-e738-4282-b666-0a783988dd08" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda5: UUID="b81886a1-ffd8-4e1c-a8b2-f9a0599768c5" TYPE="ext4"
I guess Mint installer is looking for a partition w/o any filesystem
on it. Your /dev/sda5 has an ext4.
as mentioned at the time when I tried I had unused unformatted free
space on the disk.