UBUNTU Guys are Playing Dirty

Yes, UBUNTU Guys are playing Dirty.

They deliberately fiddle with the numbering system.

Partition 8 was changed to 17.

Partition 8 was SWAP partition.

I keep two SWAP partitions by default.

I had one recovery is impossible.

R. I. P.

I gave partition 17 as /root for UBUNTU.

They did it deliberately.

Then at Boot Time conflict arises and NO Device to Boot message flashes.

 

Then these guys offer to help to install and charge you for a Free Product.

It is Simply a Dirty Trick.

 

When SuSe went commercial I ditched it.

When Redhat went commercial I ditched it.

Both during 32 bit days.

 

I took half an hour to figure out.

Even Debian GNOME realized this having read the log files.

I am vindicated for having two instances of Debian.

I am going to make it three (3), since I am using Testing Forky.

 

I am trying to figure out how many distributions I can mount in 500GB SATA hard disk.

I was happy with 19 but it has gone up to 14 due to Emmabantus and UBUNTU.

I won't try these methods on a mechanical disk which burns the read and write heads.

 

I had a Old Laptop in Limbo.

The rest is my Linux History.

Gnome uses 1302 to 1303 files.

About half of that for GNOME and other half for System Utilities.

Any additional applications add to this file system and at its most 3300 odd. 

A substantial increase from 2000 odd it used to be.

I now use Network Install image which is under 1GB.

UBUNTU Installation Live

On second thoughts, ELive Installation is much better with music in the background.

On second thought, I decided to install UBUNTU on a spare partition

It started at 17.16PM.

Still looking at partition 7 of the 21 partitions.

It was given /root at partition 17 where Emmabantus failed to boot.

It took an enormous time, get into the Installation.

Nice Graphic Instructions

Still old left side panel not enough to see old my partitions.

Firefox

LibreOffice 

Amazon 

File Manager etc.

Installation icon on the right bottom

It has voice instructions for visually impaired clients installing it.

I prefer written instructions.

19.40PM

Curtin extraction stage.

 In Ubuntu Linux, curtin is a low-level "fast path" installer designed to deploy an operating system as quickly as possible. Developed by Canonical, it serves as the backend engine that actually writes files to disks, creates partitions, and configures the bootloader during the automated Ubuntu Server installation process

Extracting the image.

 

I clicked the command line black terminal interface to read what is going on behind.

No Red Warning at any stage.

My RAM is only 4GB.

Graphic Instructions must be hindering the RAM just like with BIG Linux.

I think I am going to browse the Internet and soccer results.

By this time Debian GNOME would have finished Installing with Massive additional features to entice me.

This is the very reason, I have given up on UBUNTU.

It is installing at 19.50PM.

It is hovering om the File Archive.

Where located I do not know.

Still looking for Linux Image.

20.10PM System Install in progress, 4 minutes short of 1 hour.

20.17PM installing Third Party Software.

This is why, I used to pull the Ethernet wire before installing UBUNTU in CEYLON.

Unattended Upgrade Script.

Black list

White list saga.

It is a PAIN waiting.

Soccer game is coming to close by this time. Goalless soccer is also boaring.

Itching ti Switch Off computer but Resisting.

FROZEN.

I cannot access INTERNET.

Even, Mouse FROZEN.

Clock is also FROZEN for 20 minutes.

I hear almost inaudible data exchange and Switching Off is not healthy for my Hard Disk. After another 35 minutes, I have no option but to Press the SHUT DOWN button.

Stopped saying git not responding.

What an outcome?

20.47 SHUT DOWN.

NO GRUB and No Boot Device.

Do not try UBUNTU is the Bottom Line.

I may or may not keep it after Full Install.

I Thank GOD, I did not try it in Ceylon with a Slow Internet.

Linux Mint Installation - Now 14 Distributions in my Old Laptop

For completeness sake, I decided to install UBUNTU based distribution on my Laptop.

Bodhi Linux which is UBUNTU based failed.

EFI and GRUB problems.

I have the latest UBUNTU image and I have dissociated from UBUNTU so long revisiting it serves no purpose.

I had to increase the partitions to 22 to avoid unlucky 13 and there going to be 14 in total. I had to install Emmabantus which destroyed my GRUB BootLoader and adding Linux MINT fortuitous but appropriate.

Both take nearly one hour to install and is a bit of a PAIN apart from non Free or Proprietary software added to the pool.

I am revisting Linux Mint after, 32 bit Era.

I do not know what changes have come during the last decade.

It is all due to Language packs and LibreOffice which I do not use.

I use AbiWord which I am going to install using Synaptic Package Manager.

Total Failure.

Says no Boot Device.

EFI and GRUB not configureed.

Ten (12) Linux Distributions on an Old Laptop

20 Partitions

First 10 partitions for 2 instances of DEBIAN Forky (7.0.13+ 14 Debian ).

Then partition, 

11. for ARCH Ultimate Linux Gamer.

12. BlueStar Linux 

Most beautiful KDE desktop

13. Debian again 

This was a partition I found empty

14.MANJARO Linux

15. Mageia is here now.

It is Redhat and RPM based and couldn't work out my GRUB.

Got wrong did not boot.

Similar to Bodhi Linux UBUNTU based and couldn't recognize EFI and therefore no GRUB. 

Twice I got not paniky message.

No Boot Device as the hard disk gone bust.

Booting OK after AVL Me installation on partition 16.

16. Emmabanruts was here. It is gone.

AV Linux Moksha ( Enlightenment Desktop) is installed.

WiFi was configured during installation.

Brief installation and is based on Bodhi.

Very difficult to locate its image. I cannot from where I got it.

Beautiful and light weight distribution with synaptic package manager.

Thankfully, I had a copy in one of my 16USBs. I was about to erase it.

17. AVL Me is here.

Another Enlightenment Desktop.

Able configure panel size to 1, x1.5 and x2.

Size 1 very small, it is very difficult to read.

REBORN OS failed due to Errors in Keyboard Configuration. PeppermintOS has similar problems with the keyboard

Endeavor OS failed. It cannot run parallel with other distributions.

I miss REBORN OS.

18.

What is on 18?

Not boiting.

Probably a copy of AVL me. 

On this one, I tried to Install GNOME on top of Enlightenment Desktop but tailed.

19. BIG Linux 

Not Booting.

Root account locked.

Reinstall BIG Linux

20. This is the last had Debian but not booting.

It was reserve for CachyOS but I am yet to install it. It was there in partition 13 but erased it with Debian.

 

Bodhi Linux failed with both EFI and GRUB.

Peppermint failed .

Again due to faulty configuration of the keyboard.

By the way, I am Testing these distributions.

Not Live Sessions.

Not on a Virtual Machine.

I have GNOME Boxes but do not fancy Virtual Sessions.

Even the word virtual is in a sense offensive to me.

I am a real guy.

I am a Buddhist and a not a Virtual Guy but a functioning, retired doctor and a Universty Teacher until 66. 

Not any more.

If you count, there are 12 distributions in 500GB Hard Disk.

I am a Practical Man.

Let me also dish out;

Disadvantage of a Single Partition.

If the OP go bust no RECOVERY of DATA.

I do not recommended single partition.

I have two big /home partitions totaling 100GB for DATA. 

I do not format these two partitions and Linux Iso images are there in additions to my books not yet finshed. 

I took 2 months off from my books.It time consuming and boring until they are finished.