(08-08-2022, 02:22 AM)Jerry link Wrote: Of which the point they make about installing to a non-GPT table may clear the air for some folk experiencing installation issues.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.debugpo...w/%3famp=1
HI!

Sorry Jerry, but the article lacks professionalism.
I've been using both MSDOS partitioning AND UEFI (GPT).
Linux Lite, did and DOES an excellent job , on SEVEN partitions, so "four", is... lack of professionalism.
I am using many partitions for years and many years, they were MSDOS partitions so, at most three primary and the fourth, "extended". After that, you can make as many as the media can hold.
And Linux Lite, DOES THE JOB!
Probably the author is a Windows geek and he meant "has trouble managing Windows-Linux dual boot", but this has nothing to do with Linux Lite, everybody knows that!
Beyond that, it is very unclear to me what they meant in the "BOOT" paragraph.
All you need to make it work, is watch close the boot sequence and choose the appropriate mode in the boot menu. The rest, is irrelevant. Only if you fail to choose the appropriate mode, you may encounter trouble during install.
It is true that I usually make partitions before any other step, using GPartEd. However, from time to time, I use the partitioning module included in the installer and I never had trouble, except if I changed my mind at some point, which is a whole different story.
So, in fact, what went wrong there? Nothing mentioned, except the alleged "four logical partitions" issue.
When on BIOS firmware, I made purposely three primary partitions and the last, extended. All went as expected. So, "seven partitions", means four "logical partitions", at least. In fact, there are five. And I sometimes had something like /dev/sda1... /dev/sda9. So, it works!

The only possible interpretation would be LVM, but "logical partition" is slightly different from LVM and there is no clear reference to LVM.
Besides...
Is LVM Linux Lite's job? I thought that the RAID chip, or software does the "heavy lifting" on LVM. But where is the "magic word" "RAID", or "LVM"?
Confusing...
Questionable:
"After a few hours of research, we found that Ubiquity doesn’t play well with a non-GPT table with more than three logical partitions."
As I said above: I used more than four logical partitions: six. And it went well.
Best regards!

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