My Linux Practice

Tag: MiniPC

  • Installing Ubuntu over Windows

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    This is the first time I’ve successfully installed Linux. (Once I tried to install Ubuntu on an old Mac mini but failed. My other miniPCs had Ubuntu pre-installed.) I’m wiping the Windows 10 that came with the miniPC. My LFS host machine will be Ubuntu and LFS will go on a separate partition. I didn’t…

  • Making the USB Drive

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    I used Balena Etcher on the Focal Fossa miniPC to flash the Ubuntu file onto the black Lexar USB drive. I looked at the ISO file. It contained the directories: boot, casper, dists, EFI, install, pool preseed, ubuntu; and the files boot.catalog and md5sum.txt

  • Downloading Ubuntu

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    I downloaded Ubuntu 24.04 overnight using one of my other Linux miniPCs, the Minisforum Kodlix GN41 that has Focal Fossa Ubuntu. It was 5.8 GB and, because I have DSL, took 11 hours. In my records it doesn’t look like I checked the md5sum.

  • Just for Linux From Scratch

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    Here’s what I ordered from Amazon, $140.84 including tax: MINISFORUM GK41 Mini PC Celeron ProcessorJ4125 Quad Core( up to 2.7GHz),8GB DDR4 256GB SSD Mini Desktop Computer4X USB 3.0 Ports, 2X Gigabit Ethernet, 4K@60Hz Output, Dual Wi-Fi I want this project on a totally separate computer. And, I couldn’t use one of the miniPCs that I…