kaye n wrote: > *The (U)EFI partition seems far to small, I think mine was about 200 MB > originaly and I extended it to 700 MB, so I was able to make UEFI updates. > > *Are UEFI updates necessary? What's the smallest allowable size I can > make for UEFI partition? Or is that not a wise thing to do?
UEFI updates are sometimes necessary. My notebook required one recently, as there was the danger of breaking the USB-C port (the Thunderbolt controller). The golden rule is "never change a running system", but sometimes you have to break it: no more (security) updates or danger of breaking of hardware. New operating systems rely on features in the hardware and fail if not present or wrong implemented. > *PXE Boot is booting over network (TFTP) and not want you want. > > *I honestly don't know how I got that because I was not trying to boot > over network. Never had this problem installing other distros. Already answered by Felix Miata: fallback situation from failure in booting the HDD (respective SSD). > *Created how? Did you do it yourself prior to beginning installation of > Debian?* > I believe I created the GPT partition using GParted from a live USB of > another distro. > > *That's unusually small for a /home partition.* > I just figured that the /home partition is where config files of apps are > kept, correct? And they're just small files? When I install an app, most > of it goes into / , and not /home, therefore I usually make /home a > separate partition and at 2GB only. Config files are only a small subset of the stored files in your /home. Typically your saved e-mails, pictures, videos, documents and more are stored there (and cache from your browser, but treaded as config files). > *For the future, you could paste the (relevant part from) the output of > 'parted -l'.* > Just curious, never encountered that command before. > kaye@laptop:~$ parted -l > bash: parted: command not found You can install it then: "sudo apt-get install parted" But I prefer output of "lsblk"; but this is only a matter of taste. Best regards, Klaus. -- Klaus Singvogel GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D 1994-06-27