Instruction for custom partitioning during Ubuntu install anywhare?

[rikona]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:03:34 +0100
Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:51:58 +0100, Bo Berglund
> <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >So I could run the install in non-dualboot mode.
> >
> >I went into the manual partitioning and set up this:
> >100M  Reserved BIOS
> >40GB  /
> >35GB  Swap
> >300GB /home
> >
> >Then it ran its course and finally installed the Ubuntu system...
> >
> >But on final reboot after it was all done I am getting a message
> >that there is no operating system installed!
> >
> >Clearly I have been doing something erroneous...
> >But what, and how to recover?  
> 
> Progress report...
> ------------------
> So the endeavour above did not work at all...
> No way I could get out of the situation where it cannot find a
> bootable operating system....
> 
> So I decided to start over and let Ubuntu do it all instead of me
> trying to partition in a custom way.
> 
> I had big problems in actually loading the live dvd again, it seems
> like the PC had totally switched to no-cooperate mode...
> 
> But after a few hours I finally managed to get to the Live CD again.
> This time I let it do the disk handling itself after selecting "Erase
> disk and install Ubuntu". It turns out that after all is done it has
> used all of the 500 GB disk as one system partition containing
> everything, except for a small FAT partition at the start of the
> disk. And the big one is not a primary partition it seems to be an
> extended partition which houses the main partition inside.
> 
> So now I have to shrink the main partition and create a new home
> partition and then manage to switch over from the single-partition
> setup to the home-on-separate-partition I wanted to get to.
> 
> Of course I cannot do the re-partitioning while it is mounted on the
> running system, so I need to be able to boot to my GParted ISO.
> And luckily now for some reason it is possible to boot off a USB
> stick instead of DVD. Don't ask me why, maybe because the main SSH
> disk is better now?
> 
> Anyway the shrink and creation of a home partition worked, but it is
> not yet set up to use this new home.
> 
> Also it turned out that the DVD I had for 20.04 LTS was the stock
> version and *not* Cinnamon as I had wanted. With Focal Fossa it seems
> like I cannot set the desktop background to a single solid color, it
> requests it to be a "picture", which I do not like at all.
> 
> Is there some trick to set a solid color background on this version
> of Ubuntu?

Maybe just make a "picture" of a solid color and use that? Quick easy
work-around if you need it.

> 
> Or do I have to install a second desktop manager for this? And will
> that also duplicate all of the applications???
> 
> Or repeat all of this once more using a recent Cinnamon DVD?
> 
>