Copied system partitions to USB disk, how to proceed to make a clone?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:18:08 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

>My suggestions:
>• follow the blog post I linked to -- remove absolutely everything
>from Windows, shrink it as small as it will go, but leave it there for
>future firmware updates and so on.

I did my best in the Windows update part, took many cycles to get it silenced
for new available updates...

Then I also cleaned out the fluff as you suggested to finally go into
diskmanager (named differently nowadays).

Here I could resize the Windows partition to 98 GB with 56 GB free.
And this released a free unpartitioned area of 378 GB, big enough for my Ubuntu
server I think.
So now I have :
- 260 MB EFI System partition
-  98 GB Windows system partition
- 378 GB free space
- 1.0 GB Recovery partition

>• Install a clean copy of 20.04 so as to get the Ubuntu entries in the ESP
To do tomorrow:
Boot the system with the Ubuntu 20.04 install USB and let it install as dual
boot, right? So the bootloader will be properly set up.

Does it matter which flavour of Ubuntu I run in this case? Mint or the stock
version?
Server is what I am really after but if I need to use GParted then that is not
available...
But:

>• Then try replacing the fresh copy with a copy of your old one

If I do the above with a GUI style Ubuntu, then it will get wiped in thís step,
right? So I get my server 18.04 instead like I aimed for.
Of course then I will also have to run the do-release-upgrade on that to get to
20.04...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden