[Lubuntu-qa] Manual Partitioning

[Nicholas Skaggs]

LOL PHIL! Yes, i run ubuntu on a 5 gb disk.. you can do it, but man, 
it's almost impossible to do full upgrades. You have to install some 
packages, then apt-get clean, install again :-p

Nicholas


On 12/19/2012 09:04 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi,
>
> time to 'fess up :) When dividing 100 GB by 10 to get 10GB partition 
> for testing on... Don't divide the 10GB / partition by 10! Running 
> with / of 3GB and /home with ~ 6.75 GB works fine.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 19 December 2012 00:45, Jackson Doak <doak.jackson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:doak.jackson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     i will try but i ran that same test a few hours age and it worked
>
>
>     On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Phill Whiteside
>     <PhillW at ubuntu.com <mailto:PhillW at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi folks,
>
>         I no longer see issues when manually partitioning a disk
>         (Albeit a virtual disk), but attempting to install the latest
>         lubuntu build [1] gives an error when attempting to install
>         the software (core goes in fine). To check I was not going
>         completely daft & check my iso was not corrupt, I then carried
>         out a guided-full disk install & it went well. I've tried with
>         both KVM and VBox with the same fail and success. Can someone
>         please check on an actual partition (my test area is one big
>         Virtual Disk). I'll refresh my other iso's and attempt with
>         different flavours, but this is at install part which all
>         flavours share so I do expect similar behaviour although I'd
>         be happy to hear if other flavours install okay.
>
>         My manual slicing was
>         256 Mb - swap
>         1 GB - / (ext4 - boot flag turned on)
>         ~ 8.75 GB - /home (ext4 - no boot flag) [ what was left out of
>         the 10GB area after /swap and /]
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Phill.
>         1.
>         http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/243/builds/31103/downloads
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