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[Anonymous]

It’s reasonable to expect that a given user will prefer, and consistently use, a specific window manager. Anyone who does care to switch to-and-fro between WMs may welcome the customizability afforded by ability to independently tweak each pinboard. The yad UI might (or not) provide a help button to present helptext explaining that the pinboard associated with each WM is separately customizable. (That would be an oversimplified explanation anyhow ~~ actually, we’re free to restart rox and specify a different clipboard at any time, regardless which window manager is used.)

> I see no reason for Desktop icons at all

Please try to expand your vision beyond thinking of the eyecons as “launchers”.
A goal of the RoxDesktop environment, back around the year 2000, was to provide non-techies with drag-n-drop interaction. A customized “image management” pinboard might present various drop target eyecons, each bound to a different scripted action (make a copy of THIS, resized to 800×600) (select, select, select, drop THESE items into THAT folder) (perform a “sharpen, 10%” filter on THIS image, then upload to xyz)…

Rox was really was “ahead of its time”. If you research its “AppDir” functionality (and trading bespoke package AppDirs via zeroinstall), notice the similarity to “AppImages”. Ability to swap pinboards? That rox functionality, back around 2003(!)… likely inspired KDE to {cough} invent “Activities”.

[Member Vincent17]

Hi Xecure, thanks for your reply.
I think what I have is an encrypted live install with persist-all root persist manual. Not frugal, right? I apologize for botching the terminology 🙁 The install to SD card was made with live-usb-maker.

Before poweroff I run persist-save -q if I need to save rootfs. That does not seem to affect whether or not it successfully powers off.

1. It hangs with desktop-session-exit shutdown button. Any command that goes through init 0 and /etc/live/bin/live-umount displays at the end:

... 
live-umount: Kill any remaining processes
live-umount: Dismount most filesystems
live-umount: Disable swap
live-umount: Ready to poweroff

Then the screen goes black but about half the time the power remains on (power switch led and fan on, hot)

2. It seems to suspend and wake properly from logout menu. The power switch led goes out (?!), one of the status leds blinks. It recovers instantly when I press the power switch.

3. I will try a 4.4 kernel and report back.

[Member ModdIt]

On Distrowatch it looks this way:
antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy-to-install Linux live CD distribution based on Debian’s “Stable” branch for x86 compatible systems. antiX offers users the “antiX Magic” in an environment suitable for old computers. The goal of antiX is to provide a light, but fully functional and flexible free operating system for both newcomers and experienced users of Linux. It should run on most computers, ranging from 256 MB old PIII systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes. 256 MB RAM is recommended minimum for antiX. The installer needs minimum 2.7 GB hard disk size. antiX can also be used as a fast-booting rescue CD, or run “live” on a USB stick, with or without persistent file storage.

Important is we let anticapitalista do the shaping, he is the head cook and already made a clear statement about the recipe.

[Member manyroads]

Yes it is… I figured out a way to get it to boot. What I did was first install antiX19-base (19 64-bit) on an old Acer Aspire. Replaced the kernel with 5.8 antiX kernel. Perform an update upgrade. Take a snapshot. Boot the modified antiX19 with 5.8 on my PC.

Here are the machine specs:

$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:
  Host: antix19 Kernel: 5.8.7-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: N/A Desktop: dwm 6.2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: antiX-19.3_x64-base Manolis Glezos 14 October 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5493 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0M4FW1 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.8.0 
  date: 03/24/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.0 Wh condition: 37.0/42.0 Wh (88%) volts: 12.7/11.4 
  model: BYD DELL 1VX1H9A type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510 
  serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-1035G1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 19046 
  Speed: 839 MHz min/max: 400/1000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 907 2: 994 
  3: 913 4: 920 5: 936 6: 860 7: 922 8: 844 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  chip ID: 8086:8a56 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  compositor: xcompmgr resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (Ice Lake 4x8 GT1) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:34c8 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.7-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Dell RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8136 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Dell driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 168c:0042 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-10:6 
  chip ID: 0cf3:e009 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 983.96 GiB used: 561.00 GiB (57.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD 
  size: 953.87 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: ECFM22.5 
  scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Generic model: SD MMC MS PRO 
  size: 30.09 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 935.65 GiB used: 556.18 GiB (59.4%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 242 Uptime: 12h 08m Memory: 23.26 GiB used: 2.62 GiB (11.3%) 
  Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 
  Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: sakura inxi: 3.0.36 

Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
dwm & i3wm ~Reg. Linux User #449130
20 Jan 2021 ~ "End of an Error"

[Member PFO]

Hey Dawgs,

Back with an HP desktop:
WIN XP
2 Ghrz Processor
2 Gig RAM
40 Gig HD

I partitioned the drive to:

10 Gig – WIN XP
10 Gig – antiX 19.2.1 Base
1.0 Gig – Linux Swap
18 Gig – Unused

But, antiX doesn’t Boot and I get a GRUB not found error message.

Advice?

Carry-on til you are carrion . . .

PFO

[Member Keeely]

It looks like I have a script that mostly works. My ‘setup.sh’ referred to in the other script. So long as I create the partition first, it’s just an answerfile that’s needed. The only problem is, the cli-installer clearly copies my doctored inittab out of the running root because my install antiX ends up including it. I guess I was hoping that file came from some kind of ‘base-files.deb’ package, but it doesn’t, so I’ll have to do something about that, maybe put aside the original in the root of the ISO. Not rocket science at least.

Here’s the script, with a safety feature of checking the MBR is blank, just in case you’re silly enough to boot this ISO in a machine that you care about this should stop you losing all your data. It doesn’t set timezone or anything. One remaining problem is the prompt for cd-rom removal on poweroff, I have to figure out how to disable that, and just make it power off, then it’s on to installing some extra packages.

EDIT: I’ve added an extra line, to edit live-umount and remove the line ‘read x’ because it includes an ENTER prompt which prevents a clean shutdown.

DEVICE="/dev/sda"

# Dump the mbr somewhere
dd if=$DEVICE of=/tmp/mbr.bin bs=512 count=1
# Dump a file of zeros of the same size
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero.bin bs=512 count=1

# Only format if the disk is blank
diff /tmp/mbr.bin /tmp/zero.bin >/dev/null

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
    echo "Disk appears to be formatted already, aborting."
    return
fi

# Partition the entire disk with single partition, no swap
echo start=2048 | sfdisk $DEVICE
    
# format it.
mkfs.ext4 ${DEVICE}1

cp /live/boot-dev/inittab_backup /etc/inittab
cp /live/boot-dev/bashrc_backup /root/.bashrc

cli-installer $DEVICE < /live/boot-dev/answers.txt
    
cat <<ENDOFANSWERS | cli-installer
n
sda1
y
n
n
n
y
y
antix1
n
n
n
n
n
n
root
root
root
n

ENDOFANSWERS

# Update live-umount to avoid any prompts for keypress.
sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*read x$//g' /live/bin/live-umount
poweroff

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Keeely.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Keeely.

[Member seaken64]

I would re-install. A proper swap partition will be better in the long run. Start XP and use the Disk Manager to shrink your XP partition more. You’ve got enough room for 60GB or more for Linux. Then reboot XP and let XP reset the drive size with scandisk. After verifying XP is working, delete everything other than the XP partition. Next, create an EXTENDED partition for the entire drive space after XP. Next create a Linux Swap partition as a Logical Partition and place it at the extreme right end of the space. Next create your root (/) and /home partitions. (Or keep /home with root (/) and create a FAT32 partition for file sharing). After quitting Gparted restart XP and let scandisk do it’s thing. Now start the LiveUSB antiX installer and choose your / and /home locations, then your swap location. When asked to run grub put it on MBR on the first partion. XP will be added to your grub bootoader.

I do this all the time. It is better to work out your install routine than to kludge it together after making a non-ideal choice. Use EXTENDED and LOGICAL partitions with MBR. And make sure to let XP run scandisk as I described. XP will be happy if you set your disk as I described. Good luck! And welcome to antiX.

Seaken64

[Member seaken64]

I’ve been reading this thread with interest. Unfortunately, I don’t think I grasp everything. I understand that Marcelocripe has some old machines that don’t work well with the standard antiX-19 and that Xecure has been trying to provide an alternate iso that may work better on those machines. One approach was to replace the Xorg package with the package from antiX-16, is that correct? I’ve never quite got a handle on how all of this works, but will an older Xorg package continue to work with other programs that may require a dependency on the current Xorg files? Maybe a desktop environment or video editor, or something like that?

For what it is worth, I have one laptop that use the VIA Graphics. So far, I have been able to use this machine in antiX-16, antiX-17, and antiX-19 with no problems. It always uses the OpenChrome driver for Xorg and I am able to use the default screen size of 1280×768. I’ve had no video problems with the apps that I use, such as SMTube or Streamlight, or mpv, or VLC, etc. Apparently marcelocripe has different chips and get different results. I have another system that uses an Intel integrated graphics chip that was not supported and I had to get help from BitJam and others on this forum to set it up with the GUI. So I understand that sometimes the video does not get setup correctly from the standard iso download. But if I recall I only had to force an install of an alternate driver module. Apparently this is not always the case and no driver will solve the problem. In these cases is it a combination of the kernel, Xorg, and drivers? Is it that the driver files have not been maintained to support the newer Xorg and/or kernel?

I also have a keen interest in keeping old computers alive and out of the trash. I hope I can learn how all of these parts of the puzzle fit together so I can contribute to efforts such as those on display here in this forum. If marcelocripe and xecure are successful in getting marcelocripes computers working with antiX-19 it will go a long way toward all of us learning how to massage linux to our own goals. I only have this one laptop that uses the VIA graphics but if my testing will help I will do what I can.

I downloaded the legacy-bet1 iso file that xecure provided and booted it on this Gateway MX3210 laptop, which uses the VIA graphics chipset. It booted to the GUI with no problem and inxi shows the OpenChrome driver for Xorg. But the WiFi does not work. I compared the inxi to the previously installed antiX-19.1 which has been fully upgraded as of today. The graphics driver is the same with the correct resolution for this laptop on both. I’ll paste the inxi output below.

Also, it seems to me that a working WiFi is at least as important as a working graphics. Maybe this beta1 test is only focused on the graphics for now? and the WiFi will be working later?

Thank you all for you hard work. This has always been one of my favorite things about antiX. antiX developers and users appreciate that an old piece of equipment still has some value, even if only to a small handful of the world’s computer users.

Seaken64

Here’s the inxi outputs. The first is the beta1 test on a LiveUSB, the second is my installed and current antiX-19 on the hard drive.

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.4.240-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.9.2 
  Distro: antiX-19-legacy-bet1_386-base Lazarus 23 November 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Gateway product: MX3210 v: 73.03 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gateway model: N/A v: Rev1.73.03 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix 
  v: 73.03 date: 01/06/2006 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.9 Wh condition: 21.1/48.8 Wh (43%) 
  model: Gateway W32044L status: Charging 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: M Dothan rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 2793 
  Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1397 
Graphics:
  Device-1: VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] 
  vendor: Gateway driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: openchrome 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio vendor: Gateway 
  driver: snd_via82xx v: kernel bus ID: 00:11.5 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.4.240-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN 
  driver: N/A bus ID: 00:0e.0 
  Device-2: VIA VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II] vendor: Gateway driver: via-rhine 
  v: N/A port: 1800 bus ID: 00:12.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 44.72 GiB used: 789.2 MiB (1.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS424040M9AT00 size: 37.26 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Lexar model: USB Flash Drive 
  size: 7.46 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 364.0 MiB used: 2.2 MiB (0.6%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 896.0 MiB used: 52 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 114 Uptime: 4m Memory: 479.1 MiB used: 98.2 MiB (20.5%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: 3210antix19 Kernel: 4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.9.2 
  Distro: antiX-19.1_386-base Marielle Franco 23 December 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Gateway product: MX3210 v: 73.03 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gateway model: N/A v: Rev1.73.03 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix 
  v: 73.03 date: 01/06/2006 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.9 Wh condition: 21.1/48.8 Wh (43%) 
  model: Gateway W32044L status: Charging 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: M Dothan rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 2793 
  Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1397 
Graphics:
  Device-1: VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] 
  vendor: Gateway driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: openchrome 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio vendor: Gateway 
  driver: snd_via82xx v: kernel bus ID: 00:11.5 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.200-antix.1-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN 
  driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A bus ID: 00:0e.0 
  Device-2: VIA VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II] vendor: Gateway driver: via-rhine 
  v: N/A port: 1800 bus ID: 00:12.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 44.72 GiB used: 4.69 GiB (10.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS424040M9AT00 size: 37.26 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Lexar model: USB Flash Drive 
  size: 7.46 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 7.65 GiB used: 3.92 GiB (51.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 896.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 128 Uptime: 2m Memory: 477.3 MiB used: 90.6 MiB (19.0%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

BobC wrote:

I have tried creating a swap partition later and it affects other things. The easy solution is to bite the bullet, save your data and reinstall. antiX is a quick install anyway. Consider not making a separate /home partition. Trying to use /home shared between distros can make a mess. With only 2 gb, you should have swap. After saving your data you could test without swap by opening browser sessions until you run out of memory and see how resilient it is.

I always create a decent sized swap partition. I multi-boot, and I am able to use and reuse the same swap partition for many different distributions because only one of them is active at a time.

I don’t create a separate /home partition. Instead I copy any files that I constantly use and I simply mount my other distro partitions any time I want to either copy or use a file that is saved in another partition.

This works well and it’s pretty easy to access other partitions on the same disk.

--
Brian Masinick

[Member Askic]

Ok guys, here is the update.
In order to avoid reinstall, I have decided to create a swap file. I have resized and increased /root partition with usef of GParted from live CD and yes, it is possible to use unallocated space “from the left”. After that, system booted without any problems. Then I have followed the rest of the tutorial. Everything went seemingly OK.
The command $ swapon –show produces the following output:
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile file 2G 0B -1

However, I noticed red line during system boot that swapfile is not activated. I’ll need to investigate that further.
in /etc/fstab I have added the line:
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0

but I’m not sure whether to use tabs or spaces.

EDIT:

I have moved the line: /swapfile none swap sw 0 0 immediately after / in the fstab file (just like shown in the attached picture), after after new reboot I have a clean boot log file.

So, this can be considered solved.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Askic.

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[Forum Admin Dave]

Askic wrote:

What about to use antiX live CD and use GParted tool to delete /home partition and recreate it as extended? Then I could create a new logical partition of 2 GB for swap. Since /home would be destroyed, antiX reinstall is necessary?

That is a valid option.

You would then need to make a directory with your username in the new /home, copy the contents of /etc/skel/ to /home/username/, then change ownership of the new /home/username/ and contents to your username. You may be better to do the copying on your installed system after making the new /home partition.

As root

mkdir /home/my-username/
cp /etc/skel/* /home/my-username/
chown -R my-username:my-username /home/my-username

Have you tried shrinking the windows partition more?
It seems like you are not using much space in that partition.

Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown

[Moderator BobC]

I have tried creating a swap partition later and it affects other things. The easy solution is to bite the bullet, save your data and reinstall. antiX is a quick install anyway. Consider not making a separate /home partition. Trying to use /home shared between distros can make a mess. With only 2 gb, you should have swap. After saving your data you could test without swap by opening browser sessions until you run out of memory and see how resilient it is.

[Member Askic]

Hello and thank you for the replies. Unfortunately, when installing antix in the first place, I didn’t pay attention that drive is initialized as MBR (there was already win XP installed). So I created and mounted two additional partitions /root and /home. Later, I have read that if swap is missing and RAM is fully occupied, the computer can halt, and I want to avoid that.

I have upgraded my S10e notebook and it has 2 GB of RAM, conky showed that max RAM usage was about 600 MB so far, so maybe I’m good. Reinstalling antiX won’t be that much of a problem, but I’d rather avoid that if not necessary. I’m just curious, what could happen if I leave things as they are. So far (and I’m using antiX only two days, I didn’t experienced any problems with the system).

What about to use antiX live CD and use GParted tool to delete /home partition and recreate it as extended? Then I could create a new logical partition of 2 GB for swap. Since /home would be destroyed, antiX reinstall is necessary?

[Member fatmac]

1.6GHz with 1GB ram will be pretty slow, but usable.

With standard partitioning, you are allowed 4 primary partitions only, but one of those can be an ‘extended’ partition that will let you add a further 14 partitions, (if my memory is right), so your best bet is to re install using an extended partition. You could add a swap file, but it would work a lot slower & take up some of your disk space. I recommend re installing.

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

[Member Xecure]

That is the limitation of using the old msdos partition table. Maximum 4 primary partitions. “New” GPT partition tables are more flexible.
On these old partition tables, what people usually do is have 3 primary partitions and one extended partitions to create logical partitions inside (overcoming the partition limit).
But as you are only missing a swap partition, you could use a swap file instead of re-partitioning. It should work almost the same.

You have made your root partition too small to host it, so you could host it inside the home partition. Add the missing 2Gbs to the home partition and create a 2GB swap file inside (Though I would add it to the root partition, but I don’t know if you can increase partitions “from the left” in msdos partition tables).

Based on this tutorial: https://www.howtogeek.com/455981/how-to-create-a-swap-file-on-linux/
for 2 GB partiton inside the /home partition, it would be something like:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/swapfile bs=1024 count=2097152
and then follow the rest of the tutorial.

Does anyone else have a better suggestion?

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.