Some of the context might not be relevant to the problem so feel free to skim through the rest of this post but essentially what I'm doing is trying to install an operating system onto the KAOS partition in the picture.HardwareOK so I'm on a Lenovo Yoga Ultrabook 13 (specs) and I'd rather keep Windows since I read online that I'd be having further problems once I finish this headache (mainly that the wifi is going to be screwed and stuff but I'm prepared for that).ConstraintsIn order to keep the original setup intact while creating a new partition I had to do a little bit of magic because all the various partitions can somehow get out of sync or something if you're not careful. tl;dr: I was VERY careful and I believe that my problem is related to the flash drive and not the partition setup.OptionsI've tried to install DeepinOS, openSUSE and KaOS and have had various different error messages which returned no relevant search results until I found this article. Which has a plausible explanation for my problems.DiagnosticsI believe the usb drive is trying to use the wrong partition and that I need to specify in some config file exactly which partition I wish to use. This makes sense since theopenSUSE error came after I got a dialog box asking me to specify some path (the default is / and according to guides you're supposed to hit enter and things happen, I got some red box asking me to verify installation media).KaOS error said:ERROR: Root device mounted successfully but /sbin/init does not exist.Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.ShortcomingsThe one thing about that explanation that makes no sense is that these various installations have never tried to override anything (or indeed write anything). I'm sorry for not giving a more detailed description of the errors but I'm sick of restarting my computer and...Other... I've created bootable USB sticks with three different flash drives and 3-4 different tools (unetbootin, UUI, some windows only tool and the SUSE tool). I've both formatted and prepared them on my Linux Mint workstation and the windows laptop (as well as troubleshooted (troubleshot?) some other aspects of the process such as making sure the ISO's are OK etc).I've had several problems with the flash drives, especially at first. However although none of my installation attempts has gotten farther than the first step of the installation process that seems to be a symptom of some other problem.SummaryI will be completely content if anyone can help me get a working dualboot setup with any of the following OSes (based on screenshots and random biases so I'm pretty open to suggestions if there is some easy alternative although I'm guessing choice of OS is not related to the problem).List of OSes:Arch (I might be able to do this one myself thanks to their superb wiki)BodhiDeepinElementaryopenSUSEKaOSPinguyI'll be stalking this post since I'd really prefer to have access to linux in school so please ask me if you need anything clarified and please help me :(
Trouble installing  onto correct partition for a dual boot
partition;system installation;dual boot;bootable