My Linux Practice

Tag: Partitions

  • Finally making the partition

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    2.4 Creating a new partition GParted manual I read the entire manual and printed out the needed instructions. GParted Live USB 1. Shrunk sda2 to 182.82 GiB, approximately 195 GB. Note: GiBs are apparently not MiB x 1000 2. From 54.61 GiB unallocated space, created sda3 27.3 GiB 3. Left the rest unallocated, about 27.3…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • SecureBoot, snaps, and planning

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    SecureBoot Secure boot is already disabled: sudo mokutil –sb-state “SecureBoot disabled” Was it never on or did I unintentionally disable it when clicking around in the BIOS? On 11/29, I used the mokutil command on the Focal Fossa miniPC. That too has “SecureBoot disabled.” The Fossa’s platform is “in setup mode,” which is supposed to…

  • Tests and flailing

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    Partitions I tried to reinstall Ubuntu to create an LFS partition at that point, but I couldn’t (again) figure out the manual partitioning. I’ll make a GParted Live USB to make the partition, I guess. Audio / Visual I tested out the audio, video, and webcam – all fine. Secure boot I could not find…

  • 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…