I love Endless! I work in a corrections environment and am trying to fine tune a dual boot system with Lenovo E560 with 64bit Windows 7 pro. When you install the dual boot option, you are given 32GB, 64GB, 128GB or all remaining space on the HD. My free space is about 400GB but if I select all space, the install runs out of room and I cannot do anything in Windows. Is it possible to adjust the Endless folder from 128GB to 256GB to provide double the room for the content rich Endless apps? I assume it would be a command line entry in the terminal since the installation does not allow for this type of adjustment to the allocated harddrive space for the install.
Again, great product and fantastic development crew! Keep up the great work!
You can’t currently adjust the amount of space allocated to Endless OS after installing it – you’d have to uninstall and reinstall. There also isn’t an easy way to pick a custom amount of space during the installation process, I’m afraid.
You should be offered 256GB as an option during the installation process – the options are meant to be the bare minimum, every power of 2 (ie 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB) that fits in the free space on your disk, and all free space minus 1 GB. It sounds like there’s a bug if you can’t actually complete the installation with the latter option. Could you send me a log file after this error occurs?
(There’s obviously an argument for allowing more fine-grained choices. When implementing this screen, we were constrained by there not being a built-in slider widget that we could use, and by time!)
Thanks for the quick reply. BTW, were you in Woodburn, OR last Tuesday? If so, I probably met you there.
Attached you will find the diagnostic report you requested. However, I originally installed Endless 3.1.6 and then upgraded to 3.1.7. So this may not reflect the information you are requesting.
I have also attached some zipped screen shot pictures for your reference as well.
This is on a Lenovo Thinkpad E520
i5 6200U 2.3GHz processor
4GB memory
500GB HD (451.2 GB available on usable portion of drive)
Windows 7 Pro OS (64bit)
Let me know if I am missing anything or if you need additional information.
I wasn’t in Woodburn, I’m afraid – I’m based in London, across the pond. I’m not the only Will at Endless, though!
On closer inspection, the loop in the installer which generates the list of sizes will actually never offer 256 GB: it’s 128 GB, or all free space on the disk. In addition, the “all free space” option doesn’t take into account the OS image that’s about to be downloaded – perhaps that’s the problem you hit.
I’ll see if we can get a fix out in the not-too-distant future.
Thanks for the quick response. My dad was born and raised in Hull.
I will be waiting patiently for the fix on this issue. We are supplementing the content with additional content provided by WorldPossible to customize the EOS to include justice content for our population.
I think both bugs described above are fixed in the latest release of the installer for Windows. If you download a new copy of the installer from https://endlessos.com/download/ you should be able to allocate all free disk space to Endless OS, minus the space needed to download Endless OS itself, without hitting an error. You should also be able to select 256GB, leaving you ~140GB free for Windows while still allowing plenty of space in Endless OS.
Thanks for letting me know about the upgrade. I am looking forward to updating the OS to see how it works. I will keep you posted on my results. Much appreciated.