BionicDog (updated: 2018-06-04)
Hi Fred,
We have an expression "To fail to prepare is to prepare to fail".
I don't think that s-kami did a dry 'run' before he embarked on his ambitious live YouTube broadcast.
I was drawing a comparison with a batsman who fails to prepare to correctly strike or block the ball with the
bat and can frequently be out - LBW.
I remain "stumped" but suspect a screen resolution mismatch caused by the broadcast starting before the actual boot.
Rather than speculate further I will send him a pm to see whether he can explain.
We have an expression "To fail to prepare is to prepare to fail".
I don't think that s-kami did a dry 'run' before he embarked on his ambitious live YouTube broadcast.
I was drawing a comparison with a batsman who fails to prepare to correctly strike or block the ball with the
bat and can frequently be out - LBW.
I remain "stumped" but suspect a screen resolution mismatch caused by the broadcast starting before the actual boot.
Rather than speculate further I will send him a pm to see whether he can explain.
Regards ETP
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Hi all,
Thank you very much for your attention.
The main problem was the HDMI connection on the second display.
Unable to detect or setup correctly.
You need zarfy or any other tool for multiple screen but this puppy does not contain such utility.
I switched to VGA from HDMI and finally worked the second display but that was lower resolution than it is usual...
..so Cinnamon DE not able to handle more display or HDMI ?
This puppy cannot handle more display and you are not able to use any tool for setting resolution and any kind of issue about that.
Precise, tahr or xenial puplets are ready for multiple screen setup but this one is not. That is the problem.
Thank you for you kind interest!
Thank you very much for your attention.
The main problem was the HDMI connection on the second display.
Unable to detect or setup correctly.
You need zarfy or any other tool for multiple screen but this puppy does not contain such utility.
I switched to VGA from HDMI and finally worked the second display but that was lower resolution than it is usual...
..so Cinnamon DE not able to handle more display or HDMI ?
This puppy cannot handle more display and you are not able to use any tool for setting resolution and any kind of issue about that.
Precise, tahr or xenial puplets are ready for multiple screen setup but this one is not. That is the problem.
Thank you for you kind interest!
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Thanks ETP.
(just read your message about PM to s-kami )
In fact I was just kidding / guessing about what you said about LBW, but appears to be in the right direction
Interesting to know about the technical details that s-kami may possibly give, if he replies, thanks in advance if you can get more info about that.
And to be honest, I initially just wanted to mention that there's a BD Cinnamon version video review on YouTube, and, although I don't understand hungary language, s-kami is doing a lot for promoting linux , and he is very nice and funny guy (IMO as I see on the video)
EDIT: @s-kami
Thanks, just see your reply above.
Fred
(just read your message about PM to s-kami )
In fact I was just kidding / guessing about what you said about LBW, but appears to be in the right direction
Interesting to know about the technical details that s-kami may possibly give, if he replies, thanks in advance if you can get more info about that.
And to be honest, I initially just wanted to mention that there's a BD Cinnamon version video review on YouTube, and, although I don't understand hungary language, s-kami is doing a lot for promoting linux , and he is very nice and funny guy (IMO as I see on the video)
EDIT: @s-kami
Thanks, just see your reply above.
Fred
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About apt2sfs...
I was using apt2sfs earlier this week, and I like the idea of using that program to make a whole distro just by using the apt-get tool, as I find it difficult to make an sfs modification without making much mistakes (such as accidentally leaving in personal residue and bash history). But the problem is, I don't really know what packages are required to make the sfs bootable and chrootable.
Hi cochranizer,
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111199
(but note that it's not puppy and using completely different way of building than Woof-Ce)
Another option may be to use rcrsn51's starter-kit (also based on Stretch), install what you like and make a remaster (e.g. by using "quick-remaster", for frugal install only)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112784
BionicDog is also built by using debootstrap, very basic info here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 052#990052
EDIT: Here's more info, also about "making bootable"
https://willhaley.com/blog/custom-debia ... vironment/
Fred
Well, I don't know what you'd like it to be based on, but for Debian Stretch there is the "mklive-stretch" script, it can build a full OS, by using debootstrap and installing with apt-get in chroot (similar to what apt2sfs does)I was using apt2sfs earlier this week, and I like the idea of using that program to make a whole distro just by using the apt-get tool, as I find it difficult to make an sfs modification without making much mistakes (such as accidentally leaving in personal residue and bash history). But the problem is, I don't really know what packages are required to make the sfs bootable and chrootable.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111199
(but note that it's not puppy and using completely different way of building than Woof-Ce)
Another option may be to use rcrsn51's starter-kit (also based on Stretch), install what you like and make a remaster (e.g. by using "quick-remaster", for frugal install only)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112784
BionicDog is also built by using debootstrap, very basic info here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 052#990052
EDIT: Here's more info, also about "making bootable"
https://willhaley.com/blog/custom-debia ... vironment/
Fred
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Try Update Cinnamon Desktop from PPA
I tried updating cinnamon desktop from ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon, update everything. After restarting the xorg, the desktop was missing.I know that it was nemo-desktop which cannot run in root.
My question is how to be able to run nemo-desktop as root
My question is how to be able to run nemo-desktop as root
Re: Try Update Cinnamon Desktop from PPA
Hi quantumbox, to be honest, I don't know, the nemo-desktop (included in BD-Cinnamon) runs as root for me:quantumbox wrote:I tried updating cinnamon desktop from ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon, update everything. After restarting the xorg, the desktop was missing.I know that it was nemo-desktop which cannot run in root.
My question is how to be able to run nemo-desktop as root
Code: Select all
root@live64:~# ps aux | grep nemo-desktop
root 1927 2.6 1.8 717288 37908 tty1 Sl 17:08 0:01 nemo-desktop
Fred
Re: Try Update Cinnamon Desktop from PPA
Hi quantumbox,
The Cinnamon edition of BionicDog was modified in true Puppy fashion to run everything as root.
That entailed forcing some items not normally run as root to do so including:
chromium (Tested then removed. Poses no real problem whilst the root flag continues to exist)
vlc
cups
nemo-desktop
pulseaudio
In the above list nemo-desktop is the name of the binary held in /usr/bin/
In Ubuntu, nemo acts as a file manager AND graphical shell for Cinnamon.
Last August OOTB, Cinnamon 3.6.7 was installed and Ubuntu show no signs of issuing any official updates.
For some reason you have attempted to update it to 3.8.9.1 using an unofficial PPA which was intended for normal Ubuntu Bionic
which would not be running as root.
In general one would only use a PPA to obtain some vital app that was not available in the official Ubuntu repositories.
Even then you use a PPA at your own peril. For something of fundamental importance like a window manager using a PPA
to force the issue is not generally a good idea. It is safer to wait for the official update to be rolled out.
You now have a number of options assuming you can access the terminal. Please say which you would prefer:
1. Attempt to persuade 3.8.9.1 to work which may or may not be possible as it is an unknown quantlty.
2. Uninstall 3.8.9.1 in which case you should be able to revert to the original 3.6.7 and modified nemo-desktop file which are still held in the read only 01-filesystem.squashfs file.
3. Using another Pup, delete the complete contents of your changes folder to return to the OOTB state.
The Cinnamon edition of BionicDog was modified in true Puppy fashion to run everything as root.
That entailed forcing some items not normally run as root to do so including:
chromium (Tested then removed. Poses no real problem whilst the root flag continues to exist)
vlc
cups
nemo-desktop
pulseaudio
In the above list nemo-desktop is the name of the binary held in /usr/bin/
In Ubuntu, nemo acts as a file manager AND graphical shell for Cinnamon.
Last August OOTB, Cinnamon 3.6.7 was installed and Ubuntu show no signs of issuing any official updates.
For some reason you have attempted to update it to 3.8.9.1 using an unofficial PPA which was intended for normal Ubuntu Bionic
which would not be running as root.
In general one would only use a PPA to obtain some vital app that was not available in the official Ubuntu repositories.
Even then you use a PPA at your own peril. For something of fundamental importance like a window manager using a PPA
to force the issue is not generally a good idea. It is safer to wait for the official update to be rolled out.
You now have a number of options assuming you can access the terminal. Please say which you would prefer:
1. Attempt to persuade 3.8.9.1 to work which may or may not be possible as it is an unknown quantlty.
2. Uninstall 3.8.9.1 in which case you should be able to revert to the original 3.6.7 and modified nemo-desktop file which are still held in the read only 01-filesystem.squashfs file.
3. Using another Pup, delete the complete contents of your changes folder to return to the OOTB state.
Regards ETP
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Re: Try Update Cinnamon Desktop from PPA
Thanks for the information, maybe I just need to wait until the official version is released, I have no problem reverting to previous state. I always back up the save folder to tar.gz, before doing the experimentETP wrote:Hi quantumbox,
The Cinnamon edition of BionicDog was modified in true Puppy fashion to run everything as root.
That entailed forcing some items not normally run as root to do so including:
chromium (Tested then removed. Poses no real problem whilst the root flag continues to exist)
vlc
cups
nemo-desktop
pulseaudio
In the above list nemo-desktop is the name of the binary held in /usr/bin/
In Ubuntu, nemo acts as a file manager AND graphical shell for Cinnamon.
Last August OOTB, Cinnamon 3.6.7 was installed and Ubuntu show no signs of issuing any official updates.
For some reason you have attempted to update it to 3.8.9.1 using an unofficial PPA which was intended for normal Ubuntu Bionic
which would not be running as root.
In general one would only use a PPA to obtain some vital app that was not available in the official Ubuntu repositories.
Even then you use a PPA at your own peril. For something of fundamental importance like a window manager using a PPA
to force the issue is not generally a good idea. It is safer to wait for the official update to be rolled out.
You now have a number of options assuming you can access the terminal. Please say which you would prefer:
1. Attempt to persuade 3.8.9.1 to work which may or may not be possible as it is an unknown quantlty.
2. Uninstall 3.8.9.1 in which case you should be able to revert to the original 3.6.7 and modified nemo-desktop file which are still held in the read only 01-filesystem.squashfs file.
3. Using another Pup, delete the complete contents of your changes folder to return to the OOTB state.
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I don't know if this is normal, when shutdown the following warning appears
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/memory/changes
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/mnt/sda1
Failed unmounting /mnt/live
Is this safe or are there another solution
BTW I'm using portreous boot in ext4 HDD, and same problem in USB ext4
This happened in Cinnamon edition only, does not occur in BionicDog64_2018-06-04.iso version
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/memory/changes
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/mnt/sda1
Failed unmounting /mnt/live
Is this safe or are there another solution
BTW I'm using portreous boot in ext4 HDD, and same problem in USB ext4
This happened in Cinnamon edition only, does not occur in BionicDog64_2018-06-04.iso version
Hi quantumbox,quantumbox wrote:I don't know if this is normal, when shutdown the following warning appears
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/memory/changes
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/mnt/sda1
Failed unmounting /mnt/live
Is this safe or are there another solution
BTW I'm using portreous boot in ext4 HDD, and same problem in USB ext4
This happened in Cinnamon edition only, does not occur in BionicDog64_2018-06-04.iso version
That message has been there since the Cinnamon version was released last August. It seems benign and can I believe, be safely ignored.
It is probably another consequence of running everything as root.
Regards ETP
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After reading the previous post, finally I was able to solve the problem, I just need to add the following command near the end of wmpoweroff and wmreboot script located in /usr/binETP wrote:Hi quantumbox,quantumbox wrote:I don't know if this is normal, when shutdown the following warning appears
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/memory/changes
Failed unmounting /mnt/live/mnt/sda1
Failed unmounting /mnt/live
Is this safe or are there another solution
BTW I'm using portreous boot in ext4 HDD, and same problem in USB ext4
This happened in Cinnamon edition only, does not occur in BionicDog64_2018-06-04.iso version
That message has been there since the Cinnamon version was released last August. It seems benign and can I believe, be safely ignored.
It is probably another consequence of running everything as root.
umount -l /mnt/live/memory/changes 2> /dev/null
umount -l /mnt/live/mnt 2> /dev/null
umount -l /mnt/live 2> /dev/null
and now shutdown is faster
Hi quantumbox,
Thanks for your solution. I will need to liaise with Fred on this problem
as changes to those scripts may be required in all versions.
Thanks for your solution. I will need to liaise with Fred on this problem
as changes to those scripts may be required in all versions.
Regards ETP
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Hi all, thank you so much for your efforts. This has been so much fun to play around with.
Just fyi before my question, I'd put me in the category of novice linux user. I'm not afraid to try stuff but don't know what I'm doing without googling it.
I am using the Cinnamon variation of BionicDog.
I bought a wifi dongle since the old computer I am using doesn't have builtin wifi and I need to install the driver for RTL8821AU. I have gone all through the Ubuntu discussion forums and I just can't make it work.
At one point, I had Ubuntu installed and in the software packages I was able to simply say Use Third Party Drivers and it functioned.
Can anyone help me get this wifi adapter working? thank you again, i have already spent too many hours playing with this... my wife is getting annoyed .
One other question if I may. I didnt really see covered in the thread (I have gone back and read all 47 pages so maybe I missed it). Is it not recommended to run apt update and apt upgrade because it makes the size of the OS so enormous after doing so?
I try to use copy2ram in Grub but I have maxed out the ram here at 4 Gigs and I believe it gets too large to run in Ram if I update all the packages. Does this sound like I'm making sense. Thanks again.
Just fyi before my question, I'd put me in the category of novice linux user. I'm not afraid to try stuff but don't know what I'm doing without googling it.
I am using the Cinnamon variation of BionicDog.
I bought a wifi dongle since the old computer I am using doesn't have builtin wifi and I need to install the driver for RTL8821AU. I have gone all through the Ubuntu discussion forums and I just can't make it work.
At one point, I had Ubuntu installed and in the software packages I was able to simply say Use Third Party Drivers and it functioned.
Can anyone help me get this wifi adapter working? thank you again, i have already spent too many hours playing with this... my wife is getting annoyed .
One other question if I may. I didnt really see covered in the thread (I have gone back and read all 47 pages so maybe I missed it). Is it not recommended to run apt update and apt upgrade because it makes the size of the OS so enormous after doing so?
I try to use copy2ram in Grub but I have maxed out the ram here at 4 Gigs and I believe it gets too large to run in Ram if I update all the packages. Does this sound like I'm making sense. Thanks again.
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I have similar problem with RTL8821CE, you need to compile driver yourself.sinc wrote:Hi all, thank you so much for your efforts. This has been so much fun to play around with.
Just fyi before my question, I'd put me in the category of novice linux user. I'm not afraid to try stuff but don't know what I'm doing without googling it.
I am using the Cinnamon variation of BionicDog.
I bought a wifi dongle since the old computer I am using doesn't have builtin wifi and I need to install the driver for RTL8821AU. I have gone all through the Ubuntu discussion forums and I just can't make it work.
At one point, I had Ubuntu installed and in the software packages I was able to simply say Use Third Party Drivers and it functioned.
Can anyone help me get this wifi adapter working? thank you again, i have already spent too many hours playing with this... my wife is getting annoyed .
One other question if I may. I didnt really see covered in the thread (I have gone back and read all 47 pages so maybe I missed it). Is it not recommended to run apt update and apt upgrade because it makes the size of the OS so enormous after doing so?
I try to use copy2ram in Grub but I have maxed out the ram here at 4 Gigs and I believe it gets too large to run in Ram if I update all the packages. Does this sound like I'm making sense. Thanks again.
Before you do that, you need to install linux header for your kernel version. Search in synaptic linux-headers-4.15.0-xx, and download driver source from here
https://github.com/paralin/rtl8821au
download, extract, open terminal on that folder then execute this command
make all
after finish compiling
make install
modprobe -a 8821au
For ram less or equal to 2 GB you can upgrade it, by removing EXIT on grub setting so changes in file system directly write into disk.
changes=EXIT:/casper to changes=:/casper
You need to install bleachbit to clean your system after upgrading
Thanks so much quantumbox. based on your instructions I got my wifi working last night. Though inside the file you sent was a readme file that directed me to another site with a more updated driver. So I used that one but either way... its working and I thank you.
I haven't tried upgrading the packages yet as you suggested. I'm still afraid of the size it might become. When it has to run from my harddisk instead of RAM it really really really slows down. Basically to unusable.
I went through a few other fixes from this thread last night. The two on the first post, fixing evince, changing the mplayer settings, putting in the shutdown code. There actually are a few not listed on the first page.
After doing this, and before installing the upgrade, how can I save my changes folder so I can revert back if I need to?
I assume I can just change the extension to .old (or something) and a new one will be created. Can you tell me the location of the folder I should retain? The drive path.
i also tried the Nvidia update that was mentioned, I do have an Nvidia card, but the command ubuntu-drivers devices returns an error. Any idea why that would be? Does ETP have something installed thats not on the base system or removed from Cinnamon?
Ohh, another question, probably ignorant but I don't know any better. When I was running codes last night I needed to open a terminal from inside a folder. But when I right click and use Open Terminal Here it provides a terminal that doesn't have copy/paste abilities. So I would open the terminal from the taskbar and cd to the correct directory so I could use the paste funtion. There appears to be quite a few terminals installed. Is there a particular reason for this? Can the 'right click' > open terminal here be changed to the more 'user friendly' (as I see it anyways) one?
Best Regards.
I haven't tried upgrading the packages yet as you suggested. I'm still afraid of the size it might become. When it has to run from my harddisk instead of RAM it really really really slows down. Basically to unusable.
I went through a few other fixes from this thread last night. The two on the first post, fixing evince, changing the mplayer settings, putting in the shutdown code. There actually are a few not listed on the first page.
After doing this, and before installing the upgrade, how can I save my changes folder so I can revert back if I need to?
I assume I can just change the extension to .old (or something) and a new one will be created. Can you tell me the location of the folder I should retain? The drive path.
i also tried the Nvidia update that was mentioned, I do have an Nvidia card, but the command ubuntu-drivers devices returns an error. Any idea why that would be? Does ETP have something installed thats not on the base system or removed from Cinnamon?
Ohh, another question, probably ignorant but I don't know any better. When I was running codes last night I needed to open a terminal from inside a folder. But when I right click and use Open Terminal Here it provides a terminal that doesn't have copy/paste abilities. So I would open the terminal from the taskbar and cd to the correct directory so I could use the paste funtion. There appears to be quite a few terminals installed. Is there a particular reason for this? Can the 'right click' > open terminal here be changed to the more 'user friendly' (as I see it anyways) one?
Best Regards.
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Switch prefered application for terminal with Gnome Terminal in system settingssinc wrote:Thanks so much quantumbox. based on your instructions I got my wifi working last night. Though inside the file you sent was a readme file that directed me to another site with a more updated driver. So I used that one but either way... its working and I thank you.
I haven't tried upgrading the packages yet as you suggested. I'm still afraid of the size it might become. When it has to run from my harddisk instead of RAM it really really really slows down. Basically to unusable.
I went through a few other fixes from this thread last night. The two on the first post, fixing evince, changing the mplayer settings, putting in the shutdown code. There actually are a few not listed on the first page.
After doing this, and before installing the upgrade, how can I save my changes folder so I can revert back if I need to?
I assume I can just change the extension to .old (or something) and a new one will be created. Can you tell me the location of the folder I should retain? The drive path.
i also tried the Nvidia update that was mentioned, I do have an Nvidia card, but the command ubuntu-drivers devices returns an error. Any idea why that would be? Does ETP have something installed thats not on the base system or removed from Cinnamon?
Ohh, another question, probably ignorant but I don't know any better. When I was running codes last night I needed to open a terminal from inside a folder. But when I right click and use Open Terminal Here it provides a terminal that doesn't have copy/paste abilities. So I would open the terminal from the taskbar and cd to the correct directory so I could use the paste funtion. There appears to be quite a few terminals installed. Is there a particular reason for this? Can the 'right click' > open terminal here be changed to the more 'user friendly' (as I see it anyways) one?
Best Regards.
I usually backup save folder by compressing to tar.gz using packit app from puppy linux.
Installing nvidia driver from synaptic works just fine but when I move my usb stic to intel, cinnamon shows error, so I stick to nouveau driver, because I use this linux on multiple devices
Hi sinc,
The easiest way to do that is using another Pup/Dog copy it to a Linux partition with adequate free space (say 8GB) on a USB stick or card.
Restore using another Pup by deleting the offending folder and then copying the original back from the stick.
The relevant script(s) were updated (fixed) by Ubuntu on 10th Oct 2018. My how-to followed that on 1st December. So you would need to update to get that recommendation.
The Nvidia Linux site will tell you whether the 340 or 390 applies.
With regard to updating with 4GB RAM using copy2ram, make sure that you have a swap file or swap partition of 4GB to avoid problems.
Ideally you should backup and update regularly. If you click on reload in synaptic it will display available updates plus their combined size.
Many of them will be fixes others will be updates to packages.
Following a large update you can run the following to clean up.
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
Just for the record did you use this git https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl88 ... ver-4.3.20 which is updated & also covers your rtl8821AU with the 4.15 kernel?Though inside the file you sent was a readme file that directed me to another site with a more updated driver. So I used that one but either way... its working and I thank you.
The folder to be backed up is the changes folder within the /bionicdog/casper folderhow can I save my changes folder so I can revert back if I need to?
The easiest way to do that is using another Pup/Dog copy it to a Linux partition with adequate free space (say 8GB) on a USB stick or card.
Restore using another Pup by deleting the offending folder and then copying the original back from the stick.
I also tried the Nvidia update that was mentioned, I do have an Nvidia card, but the command ubuntu-drivers devices returns an error. Any idea why that would be? Does ETP have something installed thats not on the base system or removed from Cinnamon?
The relevant script(s) were updated (fixed) by Ubuntu on 10th Oct 2018. My how-to followed that on 1st December. So you would need to update to get that recommendation.
The Nvidia Linux site will tell you whether the 340 or 390 applies.
With regard to updating with 4GB RAM using copy2ram, make sure that you have a swap file or swap partition of 4GB to avoid problems.
Ideally you should backup and update regularly. If you click on reload in synaptic it will display available updates plus their combined size.
Many of them will be fixes others will be updates to packages.
Following a large update you can run the following to clean up.
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
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Hi sinc,
To add to the previous replies:
I'd recommend for creating changes backup to use cp from terminal, better do not use filemanager (it may skip special file types).
So from terminal standing in the directory where the changes folder is located:
As ETP adviced it's good to to do the copying from another OS, but you can also boot BionicDog without changes for one time (i.e. remove the changes=/... from kernel command line) and then make backup.
About the upgrading, as quantumbox said, best is to use changes=/... not changes=EXIT:/..
But if you do want to try with the EXIT: (after backup of changes made), then you can add e.g.
to the kernel boot line.
The default is 60%, so with 90% you'll have some more (using EXIT the changes are in RAM) and will probably finish OK with 4GB RAM.
I just did "apt-get upgrade" on BD Cinnamon and it really took a lot of space for me (but was long time ago since I did it).
Fred
To add to the previous replies:
I'd recommend for creating changes backup to use cp from terminal, better do not use filemanager (it may skip special file types).
So from terminal standing in the directory where the changes folder is located:
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cp -a changes changes.bak
About the upgrading, as quantumbox said, best is to use changes=/... not changes=EXIT:/..
But if you do want to try with the EXIT: (after backup of changes made), then you can add e.g.
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ramsize=90%
The default is 60%, so with 90% you'll have some more (using EXIT the changes are in RAM) and will probably finish OK with 4GB RAM.
I just did "apt-get upgrade" on BD Cinnamon and it really took a lot of space for me (but was long time ago since I did it).
Fred