Instruction for custom partitioning during Ubuntu install anywhare?

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:55:14 +0000, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 19:49, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> I do not want this at all, I want to get Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Cinnamon) on it and I
>> want to completely blow away any Windows stuff on the disk.
>
>Before you blow away Windows make sure you know how you will update
>the BIOS/Firmware when the need arises.  This can be difficult without
>Windows, or at least simpler with Win.
>

I think that this PC was delivered from HP with Linux installed rather than
Windows. On the bottom side there is a label with the serial number etc, where
this is also printed:
OS: FreeDOS 2.0 GR
And there is no Microsoft label on either.
I will try and fire it up and see what happens...

Later:
It won't boot to the USB device where I have the Ubuntu 20 installer...

Even later:
After I inserted a USB DVD drive (HP) with the Ubuntu 20 DVD ISO disk it
actually finally booted to the live DVD.

So I could run the install in non-dualboot mode.

I went into the manual partitioning and set up this:
100M  Reserved BIOS
40GB  /
35GB  Swap
300GB /home

Then it ran its course and finally installed the Ubuntu system...

But on final reboot after it was all done I am getting a message that there is
no operating system installed!

Clearly I have been doing something erroneous...
But what, and how to recover?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden