I made the zorin OS 15.3 Lite install as it should be done, in disk section of installing I choose "erase the disk" instead of instead of "somethink different" which meant that the only OS in my machine was going to be zorin OS 15.3 Lite and The whole 256GB SSD was being part of it. Then I completed the install, then I used "Software Updater" to update stuff, restrated, used Upgrade the Zorin OS to upgrade to 16.3 Lite, then as soon as I booted Zorin OS 16.3 Lite I ran the "Upgrade Zorin OS" to Zorin 17.2 Lite and I am here:
Why "/boot" has it's own partition? I've checked Every think else, only boot is separate for some reason. As I said before I choose the default option about disks and partition. Now what I should do? Reinstall Zorin OS (already tried with same configurations) or use "Software Updater" and retry to upgrade Zorin OS?
I'm truly confused about something. Why did you install a very old version of Zorin OS 15, when OS 17 has been out for over a year now? Also, last I recalled, Zorin OS 15 never received an OS upgrade module, because it was far too old.
I strongly recommend that you download Zorin OS 17, then burn the extracted ISO to a USB drive. Boot up the computer off of the drive, and choose the "Erase Disk" option, and install Zorin OS 17.
I strongly believe that the issue you are having, is caused by a haphazard installation method. There are simply, far too many unknowns, in regards to your installation method.
The /boot usually is not its own partition, but it may be set as one, even automatically, if you installed using LVM or Full Disk Encryption.
Can you run dpkg --list | grep linux-image in terminal and see how many kernels are installed? You may be able to remove extra kernels and clean up /boot reducing it to a manageable space.
You likely have it so filled due to having installed 15, then upgraded, then upgraded again... leaving each different kernel from each edition in place.
Correct you are Sorro-san, Zorin OS 15, was the last 32-bit Zorin OS. Zorin OS 16, is a 64-bit OS, and so will every new version 17, 18, and beyond.
Reality is, 32-bit CPU's, were already mothballed technology, going back into the 2000's. In 2005, is the time I remember 64-bit CPU's being the new thing, and have been for like forever now.
The fact that Linux in general, continued to support 32-bit computing for so long, is nothing short of outstanding. Its a sign of how Linux supports hardware, for a lot longer then say Microsoft or Apple.
64-bit is just the reality these days, and there is just no sense in continuing to support a legacy piece of tech anymore, its added work for distro developers, and software developers, which makes 0-sense.
Actually, 32-bit consumes less RAM, so installing a 32-bit distro can be preferable in some cases even on 64-bit hardware, as laptops with 4 GB of RAM were still being sold last time I've checked, and even old ones should still work fine. Though, I do understand the amount of use cases that would fit in would be so small that, at that point, just installing the 64-bit variant and enabling swap would move a lot of effort somewhere else
I'm truly confused about something. Why did you install a very old version of Zorin OS 15, when OS 17 has been out for over a year now? Also, last I recalled, Zorin OS 15 never received an OS upgrade module, because it was far too old.
Since my computer has only 4GBs of RAM installing Zorin OS 17 directly fails miserably. And Zorin OS 15 has a upgrade module, you can reach it when you use "Software Updater".
We are talking about installing Z17.2 Lite yes?
It should not fail with 4GB RAM. I suspect something else amiss if that is the case.
I assume you did a check of the SHA256 checksum of Z17.2 Lite .iso download?
(apologies if that question was asked before)
Core or Lite should equally be OK with 4GB RAM.
But do test the SHA256 checksum of any ZorinOS .iso download against Zorin website published value in any case.
FYI. You can find some basic pre-installation advice here: Before you install