05-06-2018, 10:54 AM
Just saw WytWun's reply come through so I thought I'd give another update. I decided to try and install Xubuntu 18.04 given it was the only distro I've tried that managed to boot. Strangely, there was no warning message this time about having mounted partitions so the installation went straight to GParted (after selecting the "Something Else" option) and manually set up a partition on my eMMC drive and presto GRUB proudly announced that dual booting was established (in fact I'm doing this from Xubuntu).
I'm not sure whether to proclaim this has been solved because it's morphed to installing Xubuntu 18.04 on eMMC flash memory, not LL 3.8. It feels like I've traversed the state to get to the corner shop, but I've got there. It's working fine but LL does have much better features - I still might try LL on a SDHC card that justme2 has expanded upon.
Many thanks to all who have responded.
I'm not sure whether to proclaim this has been solved because it's morphed to installing Xubuntu 18.04 on eMMC flash memory, not LL 3.8. It feels like I've traversed the state to get to the corner shop, but I've got there. It's working fine but LL does have much better features - I still might try LL on a SDHC card that justme2 has expanded upon.
Many thanks to all who have responded.