[sf-lug] installing linux on a chromebook

[John Strazzarino]

I have a Dell 3180 chromebook with 4GB of RAM and a 16GB SSD.  It is currently running lubuntu 25.10, with mr chrome box software which InInstalled using the entire 16GB SSD.  I’m  trying to install 26.04 lubuntu but the installer says that I don’t have enough space to install it.  It says it needs 8 GB of RAM, which I don’t have.

I booted the chromebook from a usb stick and use the try it option of lubuntu and tried to use info found on Google to delete the SSD, but was not successful. 

Not sure how to proceed to go from 25.10 to 26.04.  ran the commands sudo apt upgrade and sudo apt install.  It did some work, but im still running 25.10 according to the linux command to show which version js running.

Thoughts?

John





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