Calamares or Me ?
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#13 Calamares or Me ?
Good evening.
First of all, a sincere congratulations for the visible part of your work and for everything else. ( I look forward to hearing more about your computer graphics work).
Besides, I tried to install your 2 October isos without success.
I am in dual boot with Windows: on the SSD the Windows tripaille; 100Mib fat 32 in boot esp to share and 130Gib in ext4 for (/). on the HDD the Windows 8Gib data swap and 500 Gib in ext4 for the home. I partitioned the disks with gparted on another disrto and then installed the plasma iso => 3 failures with a "Calamares" error message n°11 (I believe) from memory. Of course, I didn't format the ESP. With the XFCE iso same failures but with slightly different Calamares reactions: For example when I choose to modify a partition, when choosing the file system and then the mount point, Calamares offers me the flags for example "root" and the other choices. In the Plasma iso none of this, whatever the mounting point, the only choices of flags are Boot or Bios Boot. But for both isos the installation procedure (failed installation...... I wondered if I shouldn't (as sometimes recommended) make in addition to the 100 Mio boot/challenge partition an ext2 partition for a Boot Bios... But do I have to wait for a later series of Iso for example in December.... I thank you in advance for the help or advice you can give me... But anyway I remain a fan:)
Yours sincerely
Unista (...so that the Spirit of Polish Constructivism of Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Katarzyna Kobro may live on)
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
By default, if you are setting up an EFI partition, Calamares will create a 300Mb boot partition. It may be better for you to create these partitions first with Gparted before installing. Your disk will have to have the GPT partition structure for this to work correctly.
I use three partitons, 300Mb EFI /boot, 200Gb /root and the rest is left for /home. I do this first in Gparted and then in Calamares I use the 'Keep' option so that Calamares does not re-format the partitions.