I have an HP laptop that is (was) a great machine until the HD interface quit working. I bought a new machine and thought I'd try to install Kubuntu on the old one via a thumb drive. Probably would be slow but would give me a chance to play with Ubuntu (I'm a complete Unix newbie).
I've done a good bit of poking around and have several questions I can't find answers to. I am not able to get the installation to compete
I have a hunch that the problems somehow relate to partitioning the target thumb drive, but that's all Greek to me in Ubuntu.
Rather a lot of questions. Sorry about that but I've spent hours with slow progress so far and am now stuck. HELP
Al
I've done a good bit of poking around and have several questions I can't find answers to. I am not able to get the installation to compete
- Can I expect an install to run on a machine(running from a thumb drive)with no HD? I can boot the install and have gotten quite a ways along but it always fails (more on that to follow).
- I used balenaEtcher to create a bootable drive on Windows on my good laptop and can boot from that just fine on the target laptop. I am using a second 32GB USB-3 thumb drive as the install target.
- Started Kubuntu and chose to Install.
- It found that I had an available wireless connection. It showed my home SSID (WPA-2-Personal). I entered the Wi-Fi password but it reported the connection failed. Moved to using a direct ethernet connection.
- When I got to the questions about disk setup, I tried various choices. The manual option I found completely befuddling, but the automatic choice to use the entire drive seemed to be useful.
It claimed it would make 3 partitions. The install proceeded quite a ways to the point past where it had downloaded updates from the internet and was doing some sort of user setup. There the install crashed. - When I looked at the target drive with Windows diskpart it showed an EFI boot partition (about 1/2G) with the rest (30G) of the thumb drive as one partition that, of course, was unreadable to Windows.
- I never was asked about a Home partition. Do I need to have that right away? I was thinking I would make the Home partition later on an SD card using FAT.
- After the install crashes, if I tap the power button, I get a huge list of errors that seems to scroll on forever. If flashes by too quickly to read. Is this useful? How can I capture it or stop the scrolling?
I have a hunch that the problems somehow relate to partitioning the target thumb drive, but that's all Greek to me in Ubuntu.
Rather a lot of questions. Sorry about that but I've spent hours with slow progress so far and am now stuck. HELP
Al