[16:19] <Noammac> Hello? I'm trying to install Xubuntu 18.04.1 on my friend's Lenovo Ideapad 320, and I need confirmation on my partition setup (captured in the attached image). https://i.imgur.com/0xQMX77l.png
[16:20] <Noammac> What confuses me is that there is no defined ESP, and that this is (as far as I know) a UEFI system. In this case, I do not know where to mount /boot/efi
[16:21] <diogenes_> Noammac, you don't mount it, you create it
[16:22] <cousteau> O/
[16:22] <cousteau> Where's the screensaver settings?  Or do I need to install that first?
[16:23] <diogenes_> cousteau, xscreensaver
[16:24] <Noammac> diogenes, but isn't there supposed to be an ESP already? There's Windows factory-installed on this laptop, and I want to keep both operating systems operational
[16:25] <diogenes_> Noammac, in manual partitioning you need to create it manually, the efi partition you see there is windows one now you need to create the one for linux, 300 MB partition mounted as /boot/efi
[16:25] <diogenes_> the menu should give you the right name for the partition
[16:26] <cousteau> diogenes_: do I need to install that?
[16:26] <diogenes_> cousteau, run: apt liste --installed | grep xscreensaver
[16:26] <diogenes_> what do you get
[16:27] <diogenes_> sorry
[16:27] <diogenes_>  apt list --installed | grep xscreensaver
[16:27] <diogenes_> that one ^^^
[16:27] <Noammac> diogenes_, just to be sure, I need to create a 300MB partition and in the "Use as" section select "EFI System Partition"?
[16:27] <cousteau> I just typed xscreensaver and it told me to install that, so I guess it's not installed
[16:28] <diogenes_> Noammac, yes
[16:28] <diogenes_> cousteau, yes then install it
[16:28] <Noammac> Alright, I'll try it then.
[16:28] <cousteau> OK… was expecting it to be installed
[16:31] <Noammac> Wait, I think the efi partition is the ESP. And it could be that XFCE knows that and would try to install GRUB into it automatically
[16:31] <Noammac> It makes no sense to make another EFI partition, because there's usually one system partition where you put all the binaries
[16:33] <cousteau> diogenes_: thanks!
[16:34] <cousteau> It's 300MB now?  Damn, mine's 100
[16:35] <Noammac> The Arch Wiki suggests 512MiB
[16:35] <diogenes_> cousteau, i like nr 3
[16:36] <cousteau> Fair enough I guess
[16:38] <cousteau> My laptop has two Fn buttons which I don't know what are for, one has Zz on it and the other a lightning bolt
[16:40] <cousteau> Zz triggers a 0xdf scan code but has no key code associated to it, and the other does nothing at all
[16:41] <diogenes_> mysterious buttons
[16:42] <Noammac> Whelp, I configured the ext4 and the swap and made it install the bootloader to /dev/sda
[16:42] <cousteau> I guess I need to mess with udev for lightning to do something
[16:42] <Noammac> Let's see if Ubiquity is as smart as I thought, or if everything is going to be alright
[16:42] <Noammac> Wait, no. Nevermind.
[16:43] <cousteau> Same way I needed to mess with it to get the volume keys working properly
[17:07] <Noammac> Well, Ubiquity has been hanging for the past 30 minutes
[17:08] <Noammac> On "Installing the 'grub2' package"
[17:26] <Noammac> Is there any way to halt the installation process at this point and try again? It's hanging in a rather ominous manner
[18:30] <nomenon_> hmm
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