My Linux Practice

Author: Heidi

  • Exploring Ubuntu and GParted

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    Updating Last month I updated the Numbat, explored snaps, and updated the snaps. Today I updated the debs and snaps. Boot with GParted Live USB Should see GUI In GUI:To select a device go to GParted | Devices menu option and select a deviceor from drop-down menu at upper leftLook at: text list details, device…

  • Bought GParted manual

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    I bought the GParted manual, “Manage Partitions with GParted How-to” from PacktPub, $6.98. Happy new year and on with LFS 12.3!

  • Going over the Essential Programs

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    I went over the Essential Programs for LFS – 2.2.2 Host System Software. Many of them should have been installed with the development tools that I installed after setting up Ubuntu. I checked the version of all of them and wrote them in the manual. My notes include: Checking version of coreutils – use any…

  • Thinking about partitions

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    Trying to make some decision about partitions to carry out LFS 2.4 Creating a New Partition. After reading the manual, material online, the hints, the explanations of the hints, none of which I understood, I started to come to the conclusion that: –I’ll have only one /boot/EFI partition on the drive. On it, Ubuntu GRUB…

  • Flashing GParted Live USB

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    I used balena Etcher to flash the GParted Live download to the Celeron USB. gparted-live-1.6.0-10-amd64.iso was successfully flashed to General UDisk So there!

  • Looking at the flash drive

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    I got a separate flash drive for GParted, a Celeron. I installed GParted on the Numbat PC to look at the flash drive and kind of see how GParted worked. (Although I think I might also have installed it on the Fossa PC at some point.) sudo apt updatesudo apt install gparted It looks like…

  • Downloading GParted Live

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    gparted-live-1.6.0-10-amd64.iso – 550 MB Downloaded checksums.txt and checksums.txt.gpg Verified ISO Verified iso using “How to verify a downloaded file” as I post this I don’t know where that particular piece of paper is or what I did. I hate checksums. I got more used to them later in LFS chapter 3.2. Testing executables gpg, md5sum,…

  • Installing balena Etcher

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    balenaEtcher-linux-64-1.19.25.zip – 14 MB To remind myself what I did with it: Appimage in Home Run it by opening its folder, click on balena-etcher

  • Uname

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    Practicing the uname command: uname Linuxuname -m x86_64 x86_64 meaning Intel or AMD 64-bit. I guess the Numbat mininPC is Intel. Trying it out on my Mac mini M1: uname -m ARM64

  • The UNetbootin rabbit hole

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    The GParted website was really insistent about using UNetbootin to flash the GParted Live USB (even though I felt that balena Etcher must be equivalent). UNetbootin won’t install for Ubuntu 24.04. I tried this stuff: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezkovacs/ppasudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install unetbootin I learn about the error message here: https://itsfoss.com/repository-does-not-have-release-file-error-ubuntu/ I could use the…