Thanks for the pointer. It also says that Andy has done this already for the BitFolk installer, which is great.

Hi Chris,

There are details on the wiki:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Ubuntu#20.04_.28Focal_Fossa.29_and_beyond
under "No support for LZ4-compressed kernels at BitFolk". Calling it a
kernel hack makes it sound scarier than it is, it's more a kernel
compression workaround.

Regards,

Roger

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 08:41, Chris Smith <space.dandy@icloud.com> wrote:

Hi,

On 4 Nov 2020, at 12:29, Roger Light <roger@atchoo.org> wrote:

If I understand correctly, this ultimately gives an upgrade path from

Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 without having to use the kernel hack.

As it happens I plan to reinstall one of my VPS soon, so I’d like to understand this a bit better. Are you saying that it is not possible to install Ubuntu 20.04 currently without a kernel hack? Where can I read about this? A quick Google search hasn’t revealed anything helpful and the Bitfolk site lists 20.04 as an available option.

Regards,

Chris

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