I'm trying to learn, with the ultimate goal of running a significant amount of my digital life through Linux. Right now I know nothing. My deck is a Dell Chromebook 13.
After enabling developer mode, I downloaded Crouton from github.com/dnschneid/crouton.
Then I opened the shell and did the following: sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -e -t -xfce
This appeared to work. I was prompted to create a password and encryption key, and then to create username and password for Ubuntu. Good.
When I do lsb_release -a
I see I have Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (xenial).
I'm using Shotts's book The Linux Command Line to figure out what I'm doing. Everything seems good until I start poking around directories and find only the following in /boot:
When I do ls -l
: "total 0"
When I do ls -a
: ". .."
Shotts indicates there should be quite a bit more there. I apologize for my lack of knowledge. I'm just trying to get a light, workable version of Linux dual-booted on my deck so I can teach myself a bit. Any advice, keeping in mind my ignorance, would be grand.
ls /boot/*
and see if files are listed. In order to boot Ubuntu in the first place there must be files there. Additionally my first go around I also tried encryption but that didn't last and I reinstalled soon without it. Encryption comes with overhead on your part to administer and puts overhead on the machine.ls /boot/*
I see the following: "ls: cannot access/boot/*
: No such file or directory." Should I wipe everything and then go back into developer mode, or is there a simpler way to start clean? Would you recommend I do everything the same but simply omit the-e
option, or can you suggest a lighter, faster, more stable distribution? Thanks.