On 2022-06-02 03:25:31 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2022 Tue, 31 May 19:41:56 -0500
J Leslie Turriff scripsit:
[...] I have just one PC and one ancient Mac. This is my first time trying multiboot. I can get as far as the partitioning step in Ubuntu install, but I want separate /opt and /usr/local partitions, so I can't just use the default single partition install. The installer says I need
You can go with one partition for everything. When your system is up and running: boot a live linux, shrink / to free space and add partitions - either by using the live system or booting your OS and then create some partitions. Move stuff over, add the entries in /ets/fstab and be happy :)
Nik
Well, I figured out that the Ubuntu installer just won't work without an EFI partition, so I reformatted the drive with one extra 1M partition and got past that; then I had a lot of fun relearning how to map and mount LUKS encrypted partitions by hand. I got that done and then found that the Ubuntu flavour of TDE names some of its components differently than the OpenSuSE flavour: Ubuntu TDM calls itself 'Trinity' in the desktop selector, whereas on OpenSuSE it's 'TDE', so when booting back and forth and logging in I have to remember to set that each time; when I rebooted into OpenSuSE many of the standard applets in the main panel disappeared and I had to figure out how to get TDE Menu back and remember the names of the others; then I found that Firefox is implemented as a snap package in Ubuntu, and apparently must be installed on each user account on the machine (what a waste!), but so far I haven't figured out how to find packages in Ubuntu, and searching the web, I only find stuff about GUI package managers that don't seem to be installed... I guess I'll just install Leap 15.4 next week when it's gone GA; I was hoping to be able to get access to the pre-GA versions of TDE, but I guess that's not in the cards...
Leslie --