User:Trogod/System1

This is to capture information about my current hardware and setup as it may be useful to other new or inexperienced users.

• $130 Intel Core i3-12100 3.3 GHz Quad-Core LGA 1700 Processor
• $90 Athena Power AP-MFATX40P8 400W]
• $121 MSI PRO B660M-A DDR4 LGA 1700 Intel SATA 6Gb/s Micro ATX
• $56 SAMSUNG 980 SSD 500GB PCle 3.0x4, NVMe M.2 2280, MZ-V8V500B/AM
• $85 Corsair vengeance 32GB

Total $482

I have these selected at https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vf9nqm

Hoping that these will be suitable with the case I already have Rosewill R379-M MATX

My current plan is to install Ubuntu 22.04

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1 Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk model: Samsung SSD 980 500GB Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 16384 bytes / 131072 bytes

Partitioning

• apparently UEFI Bios tries to find a partition in a GPT-partitioned boot device. This partition needs to be tagged with "EFI System" and also needs to be formatted with FAT filesystem.
• I ran "sudo gparted &"
• used Device menu to create partition table to gpt
• followed https://askubuntu.com/a/743098

Installing Ubuntu

• normal installation, download updates while installing, install third-party software & Secure Boot (chose password)
• installation type / something else
• chose /dev/mapper/main-vg-swap as a swap partition using "Change..." button, selected /dev/mapper/main-vg-root for boot loader installation, placed cursor on /dev/mapper/main-vg-root > "change..." to ext4 journalling file system, format the partition, mount point:/boot --- /dev/mapper/main-vg-systemA to ext4 journaling file system, format the partition, mount point:/