Okay perfect, now let’s do the install.
I’m assuming you have a standard unmodified Live USB, if it’s not the case, please burn your USB stick again using the Ubuntu MATE 16.04.1 LTS .iso and unetbootin.
Please respect the following steps:
- Unplug the network cable, we don’t want your machine to be connected to the Internet as it will use time for nothing doing the updates if the install fail.
- Boot your machine using the USB stick into install mode
- Check install flash, mp3 etc
- Uncheck “Download updates while installing”
- When it gives you install options pick “Something else” so you can edit the partitions yourself
- Create the following partition layout using only the free space (Select the free space, then hit the gren “+” sign:
MountPoint Type Size / ext4 40000MB swap 3000MB /home ext4 [All Remaining Space]
- Where it says “device for bootloader installation”, make sure “/dev/sda” is set.
- Click install now and let it run, when it reaches shutdown if it gets stuck try the MagicSysRq trick I mentioned in the other thread
In case you encounter a problem, please note precisely the step you’re at and what the error message is (if any) and don’t take further actions, immediately stop and post about it here.
That’s not fair.
Installing Linux is easy when you don’t have to preserve an already installed OS and set up a dual boot. If it was possible to install Windows after Linux I’m sure it would be a headache too.
I’ve installed Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on a 32bit computer with lower specs than this one.