[DC LoCo] some history of attempts failed, was Re: more sudo do-release-upgrade -d sda15 64bit FAILS

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Tuesday, August 10, 2010 06:55:58 am jerry w wrote:
> I've tried on a 32 bit LL partition with (originally, before dl .iso) 4 Gig
> free to update-manager -d fails on a broken package conflict
>  and from logs (emailed and held in purgatory by mailman)
>  appears to be xorg-x11 type stuff

Yes, a new version of X was uploaded a day or two ago, and the repo is not in 
a sane state.  Online upgrades won't work safely for a few more days.

> So I went to install from 64 bit ISO try running it first very very slow from
> CDR but did boot and ran some tried installer within that (albeit low 512
> RAM memory)

512 should be plenty.  I think 256 is the minimum.

> resizing stuff to make some room several times and seemed just hung
> (needs to send more status info out than just a spinning mouse/disk)

How much room?  You'll probably need at least a 5GB partition.

> many of which could not use the free space made at the end of some of the
> partitions (doesn't seem to go into a general pool, but ordered somehow per 
primary partition?)

What were you using?  GParted?  You need to move the partitions closer 
together after resizing them, which yes, means the system will sit there and 
recopy *all* the data forward a couple gigs per partition to shift the free 
space to the end.  Partitions are contiguous on disk.

> Generally 2 attempts at 32 bit Ubuntu (one online upgrade failing so went 
> again with .iso cdr install) 64 bit LL Fedora 64 bit several swaps (deleted
> some and get errors on boot, wanted them to reuse the same swap, but I guess
> it's a need tosave hibernate state type issue...)

Yes it would eliminate your ability to hibernate if you share swap, but it is 
possible.  If you were deleting swap partitons without first changing 
/etc/fstab on the installs to point to the one swap partition you were 
keeping, that would make unhappy systems.

> sda1 = FAT32 created in case going to need WinBlows
>  for something and as extra space
>  (remembering it's the bully on the block and has to be first,
> both installed and on partition 1)
> 
> hit partitions for logical (not clear, as can't /  don't know how to save
> output of errors) hit maximum partitions up to 18 installer creating some
> new ones 2 per attempt 15 was last and currently running 64 bit LL now
> using, and tried several times after committing a change broke the ubi
> partitioning tool errored out (not sure exact, no cut & pasteable dialog /OS
> to save)

O_O  Wait, so you have something near 20 partitions?  Are you...umm... (Dan, 
please don't kill me for my attempt at Latin) dodecal-booting? 

> It wanted a minimal 2.4 Gig root partition  and hence several of the
> attempts retried many times which takes some space

Just the base system itself is that large, so there'd be  no room for it to 
grow (for you to install things, for example) if you only just barely made 
that requirement too.

> also with graphical (GUIs) issue of how to save the output/errors
> with keyboard learning commands

I'd take a screenshot (PrtSc) and save it, then upload it to pastebin.ca

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Mackenzie Morgan
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