Assumptions

• You're on a virtual machine. If not, this is still possible, but it won't be an exact recipe.
• Ensure you have a backup.
• We're going to move the default Ubuntu installation "/boot" partition to another, larger "/boot" partition. It will remain outside of and not participating in an LVM.
• This assumes you're on a simplistic "/dev/sda" kind of configuration. If not, pay special attention to what you're editing in order to match your setup.
• You have sudo privileges.
• If you encounter an error, stop and revert or get help.

How to

• Download the latest Kubuntu release.
• Mount the Kubuntu .iso to your VM.
• Add 5GB of unallocated space to the exsting VM disk using VMWare, Nutanix, hypervisor of choice.
• Power on VM.
• Choose "Try Kubuntu" at boot prompt
• Choose "Try Kubuntu" when presented to get live boot, close welcome screen
• Start / Run "KDE Partition Manager" (no root password when prompted just continue)
• Ensure entire disk is selected on the left hand side
• You'll see a small (probably ext2) partition. Just ensure you're choosing the boot partition. Right-click "COPY".
• Choose the unallocated partition and right-click "PASTE".
  • A new screen will appear.
  • Expand the bar to the right by click-dragging it to be the maximum. This can be frustrating because the ability to drag is like a pixel wide. Just ensure it consumes the entire bar.
  • Click OK.
• At the bottom in pending operations it will state something like, "Copy parition /dev/sda1 (XXXmb) to unallocated space starting at (something) on /dev/sda and grow it to 5.00 GiB"
• Click "Apply"
• You will now have a new partition "/dev/sda3" or the like, depending on your original installation.
• Right-click the original boot partition and click "Properties".
• Uncheck the "boot" flag. Click "OK".
• Click "Apply"
• Right-click the new partition and click "Properties".
• Check the "boot" flag. Click "OK".
• Click "Apply"
• Right-click the new partition and click "Edit Mount Point". In the Path, type, "/boot" and click OK. It should spout something about overwriting "/etc/fstab", which it claims to do but doesn't... probably because it's a live CD. Click "Save Changes".
• Right-click the new parition and click "Properties".
• Screenshot the new UUID. We can get it again easily later for copy/paste.
• Close the partition manager and reboot to your normal Ubuntu installation.

• Do: "df -h" you should see "/boot" still on the old partition with very little room. This is normal.
• Do: "sudo blkid"
• This should show you the UUID of the new partition as something like /dev/sda3 or the like. Copy it.
• Do "sudo nano /etc/fstab". Consider making a backup before you edit, just in case.
  • Copy the old /boot entry to another line, then comment out the old one.
  • Replace the new line UUID with the new UUID. Save changes.
• Reboot, log in.
• Now we want to tell Grub about our new boot partition.
  • Do: "sudo grub-install /dev/sda".
  • Do: "sudo update-grub".
• Reboot, log in.
• Do: "df -h". You should see your new partition (mine was /dev/sda3) as the "/boot" partition with lots of free space! If not, stop here and read up or revert.
• We're going to remove the old partition:
  • Do "sudo parted"
  • Do "print all". This will show you the partitions - get the number of the old boot partition you want to remove.
  • Do "rm 1" (or whatever number your original boot partition was).
  • Do "print all" and ensure the partition is gone.
  • Do "quit" to quit.
• Reboot and ensure all is well.

Have

Want:

• Prefer to trade within Canada, but will consider cross border too if offers are attractive. I'm okay with conus (with some exceptions).
• Will provide pics upon request.
• I have not listed everything in haves/wants. I will gladly check your list and work something out.

1. Buy pirated cd that's changed to run on Windows 10.
   
2. Install ps2 emulator and but pirated cd to play.
   

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs sh curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs sh 

git clone https://github.com/xelis-project/xelis-blockchain git clone https://github.com/xelis-project/xelis-blockchain 

cd xelis-blockchain cd xelis-blockchain 

cargo build --release cargo build --release 

cd xelis-blockchain/target/release cd xelis-blockchain/target/release 

./xelis_daemon --allow-fast-sync ./xelis_daemon --allow-fast-sync 

./xelis_wallet ./xelis_wallet 

• Create: we will create our wallet, it will ask for a name and password.
• Open: it will allow us to manage our wallet.

display_address display_address 

./xelis_miner --miner-address xel:
 ./xelis_miner --miner-address xel:
 

git clone https://github.com/t-allfathexelis-gpu-miner.git git clone https://github.com/t-allfathexelis-gpu-miner.git ./xelis-taxminer --host ip:port --wallet  --boost ./xelis-taxminer --host ip:port --wallet  --boost 

Terminal Emulator and Shell Setup

Installing Neovim

Configuring ":!" to use Powershell instead of cmd

# Just a helper function, append this function to your proton-ge's protonfixes/util.py def protontricks_proton_legacy(version,verb): version = "Proton " + version if not checkinstalled(verb): try: pass except FileNotFoundError: log.warn('The protonprefix folder was not found') lookups = [os.path.join(os.path.dirname(element),version) for element in os.environ['STEAM_COMPAT_TOOL_PATHS'].split(":")] try: protonvpath = next(el for el in lookups if os.path.exists(os.path.join(el,'dist','bin','wine'))) except StopIteration: log.warn('{0} was not found'.format(version)) return log.info('Using {0} at '.format(version) + str(os.path.join(protonvpath))) env = dict(protonmain.g_session.env) env['WINEPREFIX'] = protonprefix() env['WINE'] = os.path.join(protonvpath,'dist','bin','wine') env['WINELOADER'] = os.path.join(protonvpath,'dist','bin','wine') env['WINESERVER'] = os.path.join(protonvpath,'dist','bin','wineserver') env['WINEPATH'] = os.path.join(protonvpath,'dist','bin','wine64') env['WINETRICKS_LATEST_VERSION_CHECK'] = 'disabled' env['LD_PRELOAD'] = '' winetricks_bin = os.path.abspath(__file__).replace('util.py','winetricks') winetricks_cmd = [winetricks_bin, '--unattended', '--force'] + verb.split(' ') process = subprocess.Popen(winetricks_cmd, env=env) process.wait() # This goes into your custom protonfix at protonfixes/gamefixes-steam/SOMEUNIQUENUMERICID.py from protonfixes import util def main(): util.protontricks_proton_legacy('6.5GE','dotnet48') # dotnet4.8 has issues installing on anything newer, before running download proton-ge-6.5 and unpack to 'Proton 6.5GE' next to this proton-ge's folder util.protontricks('win7') # dotnet4.8 defaults to older versions util.protontricks('d3dcompiler_47') # fix for renderer failure when running outside renderer=gdi util.protontricks('renderer=vulkan') # unnecessary, but forces preferred backend util.set_environment('WINEDLLOVERRIDES','dxgi,d3d9=n') # also just to assure consistency between versions 

# Minimal example of proton environment export SteamAppId=SOMEUNIQUENUMERICIDFROMSTEPABOVE export SteamGameId=$SteamAppId export STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID=$SteamAppId export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/path/to/foldefonew/steam/pfx" export STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH="/path/to/game/folder" export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.local/share/Steam" export STEAM_COMPAT_TOOL_PATHS="/path/to/proton-ge" # Setup prefix mkdir -p "$STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH" '/path/to/proton-ge/proton' run wineboot --init # Setup patches and run the game (no to error windows if any shows up) cd "$STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH" '/path/to/proton-ge/proton' waitforexitandrun 'PathosGame.exe' 

• burning CDs: that can only be used to transfer files from my newer computers to that one, not the other way around, as its CD-ROM drive is not a burner. Also burning is pretty slow, I use rewritable disks and they're starting to fail…
• using floppy disks: extremely slow and annoying as soon as any file is over a few MB, also I still have PTSD from bad sectors and track 0 unreadable :(
• trying to use a serial cable and HyperTerminal: I guess it also would be very slow, possibly even more so than floppies
• removing the IDE "hard drive" (which I actually replaced with a 128 GB M.2 SATA SSD inside an IDE enclosure) and connecting it to my newer PCs using some USB adapter: I'd rather not have to stop the system and do all that every time I want to transfer a few files…
• using USB thumbdrives: since I can't use the network, that should be the next best thing.