I am extremely frustrated right now with the installation of first 18.04.04 LTS and then 20.04 LTS on this Dell PC.
Here is the configuration:
OptiPlex 3070 Micro BTX
338-BRSV Intel® Core i5-9500T (6 Cores/9MB/6T/2.2GHz to 3.7GHz/35W); supports Windows 10/Linux
619-AHKN Windows 10 Pro 64bit English, French, Spanish
370-ADZL 8GB 1X8GB 2666MHz DDR4 Memory
400-BEUQ M.2 128GB PCIe NVMe Class 35 Solid State Drive
555-BDZT Qualcomm® QCA9377 Dual-band 1x1 802.11ac Wireless with MU-MIMO + Bluetooth 4.1 with Internal Antenna
555-BEYL Qualcomm Wireless QCA9377 1x1 driver
Here is what transpired since I received the Optiplex this past Monday.
I am stuck now, I really do not know what to do besides using the Dell restore tool to get windows back on the PC and then figure out how to start again (which I do not want to do.
Any thoughts on how I can get this installation working would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
John
Here is the configuration:
OptiPlex 3070 Micro BTX
338-BRSV Intel® Core i5-9500T (6 Cores/9MB/6T/2.2GHz to 3.7GHz/35W); supports Windows 10/Linux
619-AHKN Windows 10 Pro 64bit English, French, Spanish
370-ADZL 8GB 1X8GB 2666MHz DDR4 Memory
400-BEUQ M.2 128GB PCIe NVMe Class 35 Solid State Drive
555-BDZT Qualcomm® QCA9377 Dual-band 1x1 802.11ac Wireless with MU-MIMO + Bluetooth 4.1 with Internal Antenna
555-BEYL Qualcomm Wireless QCA9377 1x1 driver
Here is what transpired since I received the Optiplex this past Monday.
- My intent is not to dual boot with Windows 10 (I know I should have ordered it with Ubuntu 18.04 installed, but I could not find that option on the Dell Canada site.)
- I first tried installing 18.04.04 using a USB 2.0 stick. It did not work as it seems USB 2.0 is not supported for booting.
- I then tried with a USB 3.0 stick using 18.04.4 and was able to get the filesystem onto the nvme replacing Windows 10, but I could not figure out how to get the EFI folder in the right place with the required file in place. I tried all the examples provided re-installing many times. So, I decided to go with the latest version 20.04 LTS.
- After several attempts, I was able to get the OS installed properly with a single EFI partition and a single root (/) partition.
- When I rebooted after the install, I was able to go into the Bios settings and locate the appropriate file for ubuntu. Saved the settings and rebooted.
- The system rebooted into Ubuntu and asked for my login information. I entered the desktop and after checking the various applications installed, I was very happy and was about to get ready to do the configurations I do on a new PC. I noticed an icon for software updates, so I had them installed and then had the system reboot.
- This is where it went wrong again. Instead of the login prompt that I was expecting, I got a screen with the Dell Logo at the top, a continuously spinning circle in the middle and Ubuntu at the bottom. This continued for hours before I pulled the plug, as I could find no key presses to stop the spinning.
I am stuck now, I really do not know what to do besides using the Dell restore tool to get windows back on the PC and then figure out how to start again (which I do not want to do.
Any thoughts on how I can get this installation working would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
John