(08-09-2022, 10:23 AM)Jerry link Wrote: Just thought it would be helpful for those in the same position.
It sure is, for the Linux Lite part.
About partitioning.
Jerry, I "scratched" my memories over the years and I think I figured out what they were talking about.
I remembered I wanted to do a full partitioning, using the included Partition Manager, during the install process.
When creating the first three primary partitions, it went as expected. However, at the time of doing that, I needed at least 5 partitions on the remaining drive space. I was attempting a dual boot so I needed many partitions.
I created the "Extended" one, then started to slice it. Indeed,
after the third partition, I got an error message and the installer got frozen.
But in the article, the reference was kinda fuzzy...
Still, except for this glitch, which -- as I see it -- has nothing to do with Linux Lite, I never had trouble using partitions either MSDOS or GPT (UEFI firmware).
As for the rest of the article, It is OK.
What I find annoying, is that they mixed a distro review with installer's review. This suggests that the distro has something wrong in it, which is a misleading suggestion.
The story as I remember, goes back at least 8 years and it seems it still lasts, since the article was written in June 2022...
My knowledge regarding Calamares/ Ubiquity is way below the minimum requirements to understand
WHY this happens, but I see it still does, for years...
Maybe with those informations, people who get trouble creating many partitions, will rethink the choices and consider using GPartEd instead.
That is how I do it and it worked for more than 22 years.
Besides, it works fast enough, even on 4 TB media, and for some time, I've been using FAT32 and NTFS partitions, created with GPartEd.
Best regards!
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