I am currently trying to install the new Linux Mint 18 on an (empty) Seagate Expansion 1TB external hard drive. I am running Linux live from a USB and using the Install Linux Mint wizard that is included with the distribution. I created 4 partitions:50GB / partition500GB /Home partition50GB SWAP partition; 20GB EFI System partition.However, when I try to install, I get the message: The partition /dev/sda1 assigned to / starts at an offset of 3584 bytes from the minimum alignment for this disk, which may lead to very poor performance.For each partition, I am placing everything at the beginning rather than the end. When I try to delete the new partition and recreate it, there is the same around 33MB of free space at the beginning and the wizard will not let me continue to the next step until I get rid of it.Does anyone know what I am doing wrong and if there is a way to put the root directory at the beginning of the external hard drive and get rid of the free space?
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I was having the same problem. I did about 5hrs of research on the net and many people had the same problem with the seagate external drives. It must be the usb interface causing the error. i took the drive out of the case and installed it in my e machines desktop and installed the os that way. When done i reinstalled the drive back into the enclosure, hooked it up to my HP G6 laptop which has no internal hard drive, set the bios to boot from the seagate backup plus and it worked. That was the only way i could get it to install.The computer that is using the external HD is currently doing updates.