[xubuntu-users] 20.04 installation: partitioning problem

[François P. Rotzinger]

Dear Guido,

Perhaps, 20.04 requires necessarily an EFI partition. As far as I
remember, 16.04 was installable with or without EFI.

Best regards, François


On 5/13/20 22:30, Guido Milanese wrote:
> I am a regular user of Xubuntu since version 16; I tried to install
> xubuntu 20.04 and the installation failed, hanging with a message
> saying that it was not possible to format my home partition. I ran the
> installation process from a USB stick as I did many other times (I
> normally reinstall the OS twice each year). The disk is OK -- I
> installed Linux Mint 19.3 without a single problem, but I would prefer
> to keep xubuntu.
> I append a system information. The only problem that I detect is that
> I have a partition for /usr/local not detected by the system
> information (/dev/sda9).
> Thank you!
> guido (Northern Italy)
>
> ############################
> System:    Host: vivarium Kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic x86_64 bits: 64
> compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0
>            Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.22.30 wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM
>            Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
> Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6320 v: 01
> serial: <filter> Chassis:
>            type: 9 serial: <filter>
>            Mobo: Dell model: 05T3VM v: A01 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell
> v: A06 date: 07/11/2011
> Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.8 Wh condition: 25.8/62.2 Wh (42%)
> volts: 12.6/11.1
>            model: Sanyo DELL WRP9M18 serial: <filter> status: Full
> CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-2310M bits: 64
> type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge
>            rev: 7 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
>            flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
> bogomips: 16762
>            Speed: 2095 MHz min/max: 800/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1:
> 2095 2: 2095 3: 2095
>            4: 2095
> Drives:    Local Storage: total: 698.65 GiB used: 143.91 GiB (20.6%)
>            ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model:
> WD2500BEKT-75PVMT0 size: 232.89 GiB
>            speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
>            ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital model:
> WD5000LPCX-60VHAT1
>            size: 465.76 GiB serial: <filter>
> RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode]
> driver: ahci v: 3.0
>            bus ID: 00:1f.2 chip ID: 8086.282a
> Partition: ID-1: / size: 9.29 GiB used: 1.11 GiB (12.0%) fs: ext4 dev:
> /dev/sda8
>            ID-2: /home size: 100.93 GiB used: 6.33 GiB (6.3%) fs: ext4
> dev: /dev/sda7
>            ID-3: /tmp size: 1.80 GiB used: 6.3 MiB (0.3%) fs: ext4
> dev: /dev/sda10
>            ID-4: /usr size: 12.77 GiB used: 4.76 GiB (37.3%) fs: ext4
> dev: /dev/sda5
>            ID-5: /var size: 1.98 GiB used: 1.15 GiB (57.8%) fs: ext4
> dev: /dev/sda11
>            ID-6: swap-1 size: 4.10 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%) fs: swap
> dev: /dev/sda6
>
>
--
François P. Rotzinger
Chemin des Vignes 20
CH-1373 Chavornay

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