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| ralpho-beans | Good afternoon. Trying to install Xubuntu, is there a way to manually configure the partitions during install? | 21:42 |
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| ralpho-beans | The something else option says you can create and resize parts but it doesn't let me make changes | 21:44 |
| gnrp | ralpho-beans: Yeah, the custom partitioning? | 21:57 |
| gnrp | I can't tell you the exact words righ tnow | 21:57 |
| gnrp | ralpho-beans: I checked it right now. It is called "Something else" here... very helpful description, yes^^ | 22:20 |
| gnrp | but that's wha tis coming when it detects a windows alongside | 22:21 |
| ralpho-beans | Right, problem is grub install is failing, thought if I could add a /boot I could fix that but 'something else' isn't letting me modify/delete/add partitions :0( | 22:25 |
| tomreyn | ralpho-beans: try partitioning from the live / installer system before you start the installer | 22:26 |
| ralpho-beans | Is gparted sufficient for that? | 22:26 |
| ralpho-beans | Looks like the install wants to force a LVM scheme that this machine doesn't support. (Toshiba Satellite M50 from ~2005) | 22:27 |
| tomreyn | what makes you say it doesn't support this? | 22:30 |
| tomreyn | Toshiba Satellite M50 had 512 MB RAM installed insitially (though there are several different models). how much does yours have now? | 22:31 |
| ralpho-beans | I think it's 512, can't check at the moment. | 22:36 |
| tomreyn | i doubt this would be enough for installing xubuntu | 22:36 |
| ralpho-beans | Well, I had hoped. | 22:38 |
| tomreyn | hmm, actually, https://xubuntu.org/requirements/ says 512MB is the absolute minimum. | 22:38 |
| ralpho-beans | I was hoping to get something on it. | 22:40 |
| ralpho-beans | And I had used Xubuntu years ago, liked it. | 22:40 |
| tomreyn | keep trying, i have not found a reason it should not be possible | 22:41 |
| ralpho-beans | :0) will do | 22:41 |
| tomreyn | chances are that your 15 year-old hdd is just falling apart, though | 22:41 |
| tomreyn | which xubuntu were you trying to install there? | 22:42 |
| tomreyn | i just tried booting the xubuntu 20.04.1 installer with 512MB RAM in a VM, and it ran into a critical error trying to unpack the initrd. | 22:46 |
| tomreyn | works fine with 1 GB RAM. | 22:47 |
| tomreyn | that is, the installer would not even boot. | 22:49 |
| tomreyn | so i assume the 512 MB info is no longer current (it may still apply to 18.04 LTS) | 22:50 |
| tomreyn | ralpho-beans: fwiw, 1 GB seems to work fine, i just finished the installation, booted to it. | 23:10 |
| ralpho-beans | BIOs check is counting 1.407MB ram, so that should be ok | 23:12 |
| Unit193 | Yes, last I knew 512M vbox wouldn't even unpack initramfs. I have a system with 1G of ram though and as long as you don't extensivly use firefox it's fine (but I mainly use it headless.) | 23:18 |
| ralpho-beans | deleted partitions via GParted, starting install.... | 23:20 |
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