Out of Space
Richard Barmann
reb at barmannsbar.com
Fri Aug 5 17:21:57 UTC 2016
I have a Gparted Live Cd that I have had for quite a while. Should I
download an upto date copy or does it matter. econd question-- I am
unsure how to do the check sums. Is it neccesary?
Dick
On 08/05/2016 12:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 23:20:38 -0400, Richard Barmann wrote:
>> How do I remove everything and set partitions to install the Kubuntu
>> 16.04 64bits
> Before reformatting the hard disk drives, use an existing install to
> download, verify and burn the ISO.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VerifyIsoHowto
>
> It seems only the Ubuntu server image is available with gpg signing. I
> don't know how to get the desktop image or the Kubuntu flavour.
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/
>
> What ever Ubuntu flavour you chose, the ISO you need to download should
> be the amd64 version.
>
> For the partitioning I would use a live media, a rescue CD with GParted
> or the GParted live media. Maybe the Ubuntu live media provides
> GParted, too.
>
> http://gparted.org/download.php
>
> For the partitioning tool you could use a 32-bit or 64-bit ISO.
>
> Regarding how to partition the hard disk drives, there is no rule how
> to it.
>
> Perhaps other subscribers want to provide recommendations.
>
> I like MBR with as much primary partitions as possible, before
> continuing with extended partitions.
>
> I install everything to one partition, including home, but for special
> data, e.g. music data or virtual machine, I use separated partitions.
>
> I have a swap on each hard disk drive and the size of all swaps
> together at least is as large as the available RAM. Actually modern
> computers seldom need a swap, but perhaps one day, you might want to
> suspend to disk. This feature compresses the data, so actually the swap
> or swaps could be smaller than the available RAM, but IMO it doesn't
> harm to provide swap as large as the available memory.
>
> For Linux I only use ext3 and ext4, but to share data it might be
> useful to have an ext2, fat and/or ntfs partition. Anyway, I guess you
> should format all partitions to ext4 and perhaps you should split the
> hard disks to 50 GiB partitions, but just in case at least make the
> last partition an extended, even if you still could make it a primary.
>
> Maybe we need to help you, but consider to read
> http://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dhelp-manual
>
>> dick at dick-desktop:~$ sudo lshw
> As already pointed out in a previous mail
> sudo lshw -c cpu
> shows the required information without unneeded additional information.
>
>
>> *-cpu:0
>> description: CPU
>> product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
>> vendor: Intel Corp.
>> physical id: 4
>> bus info: cpu at 0
>> version: 15.6.5
>> serial: 0000-0F65-0000-0000-0000-0000
>> slot: Socket 775
>> size: 3GHz
>> width: 64 bits
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> clock: 200MHz
>> capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr
>> pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx
>> fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64
> ^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^
>> monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
> It's a 64-bit architecture CPU.
>
>
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