My Linux Practice

Tag: Ubuntu

  • 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…

  • Hold snaps forever

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    I’m pretty sure the weird stalling on Firefox (that is, when I’m actually trying to use the Numbat computer) is from snaps downloading themselves in the background without any notification. I did this: snap refresh –hold-forever “Auto-refresh of all snaps held indefinitely” TG For whatever reason, I don’t think snaps auto-download on the Fossa miniPC,…

  • 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…

  • 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.