Hello,
Since I don’t use Windows 11 yet, I am curious if you have tried to run WSl
with ubuntu installation on your Windows 11 machine. Somebody said that it is
capable of running some graphical environment, however, I had no chance to
verify this.
Pawel
From: slint-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <slint-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Peter Tesar
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 7:18 AM
To: slint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [slint] Re: Installing SLINT on a Windows
Hello,
I recently downloaded Accessible Coconut v22. It uses Ubuntu and it has a
talking installer.
https://accessible-coconut.blogspot.com/2020/11/installer-guide-for-accessible-coconut.html
My new desktop has Windows 11 and Secure Boot Enabled. Since this is the
future, I want to work with the Secure Boot Enabled system. I don’t want to and
can’t change the bios by myself.
I still have my 20 year old desktop with Slint.
Using Sllint and the dd command I copied the Coconut ISO to a USB drive. I’ll
call this the installation drive.
On the new computer, I can boot it (using the boot device list) to bring up
Coconut and hear “screen reader on”. Orca is silent until I bring up the menu
with alt plus F1 or enter the terminal with ctrl plus alt plus t.
I’ve installed Coconut to a second USB drive (target) but it will not boot
normally. What comes up is some kind of prompt.
It took a long time (over 2 hours) to install to the target drive. I have a
very new desktop and a fibr cable connection.
Booting to the target drive does not work.
I’ll do some more playing around with the installer.
Maybe someone else can try accessible Coconut and figure out how to get Coconut
installed to a SSD hard drive. It did not work when I used the install by
erasing and using the entire drive.
For now, my new desktop can be used with a version of Linux even if it is just
an install version on the USB drive.
Peter T.
On 2023-11-13 11:23 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
The way I proposed worked fine, I ran a USB stick of the latest Ubuntu and it
moved my Windows partitions towards the front of /dev/sda, made the additional
partitions that are needed to boot, when I rebooted, I went into Ubuntu Linux
from Grub, so it worked, and I had all the needed types of partitions needed
and GRUB and booted correctly into Ubuntu. Then I rebooted I ran the Live
Ubuntu from the USB stick again and using the graphical user interface, used
the gparted program and deleted the partition I made note of that Ubuntu was
put into, /dev/sda5 and deleted that.
Then I rebooted and ran the Slint USB stick installer and used the installer
and selected "manual" and the installer told me I only had one Linux partition
that I could put Slint on, /dev/sda5, so I chose that and installed Slint.
Everything worked except that Slint didn't have the Wifi drivers for my laptop
so I had no wifi.
So I just reinstall Ubuntu, and I am trying to figure out how to get speech in
the console with Ubuntu.
Slint is perfect and Debian nearly so. Ubuntu would be fine but it takes a lot
of work to get speech in the console.
Regards,.
David
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 4:28 AM <ploba60@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ploba60@xxxxxxxxx> >
wrote:
Hello,
David, if I may suggest anything, why not to shrink Windows partition and then
run Slint installation on the empty space. You would allow Slint to do its job
on this available space without worrying about anything. The Slint installation
process will allow you to create mounting point for your Windows partition too.
I like this since it is the easiest way of moving files I prepared in Slint but
I have to finish them up in Windows for whatever reason. Most of the times I do
this with my audio stuff.
I hope this helps,
Pawel
From: slint-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:slint-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<slint-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:slint-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Behalf Of
D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2023 12:03 AM
To: slint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:slint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [slint] Installing SLINT on a Windows
Age and time away from Information Technology has taken it's toll on me.
The newer types of disk partitioning and booting methods leave me confused when
they didn't before.
Is possible to use the Ubuntu Live Desktop Installer iso to install Ubuntu on a
Windows computer, then use the SLINT iso to overwrite the Ubuntu installation?
Ubuntu offers a means of moving the Windows data on the hard drive, forward and
leaving room for Ubuntu, then installing Ubuntu and all the needed booting
partitions including GRUB.
Slint is just the best distro, but I get confused with the instructions of
which partitions are needed and how large. I need an easier way to do this
these days.
Best regards,
David
