The installation of my work custom xubuntu eventually failed with qemu on my laptop running RPD. Probably because I could not figure out how to create a VM with more than 2047 MB memory that seems to be an out of box limitation of the qemu package on RPD. With the 64GB SD card and also another 64GB UHS micro SD card the installation did not complete fully and could only boot up to runlevel 3 with upstart option as it kept missing hugepages.
Also, the mini PC freed up from its work VPN duties suffered fatally when I realised that its BIOS only lists bootable USB if formatted to NTFS and tried to change boot image BIOS setting from Windows to Android. After this change, the mini PC did not even load BIOS anymore...
But I did not give up and tried to install my work custom xubuntu burned onto a USB stick plugged into one port on my laptop to another bootable USB stick plugged into another port. After a few cycles I had to realise that I need to remove the SSD drive and use the iso image of my work custom xubuntu in the left side USB port otherwise the installer kept overwriting it. Just to be sure I have used a locked SD card in a USB reader eventually just to be sure. Also, the destination USB stick had to be ext4 formatted with GParted as in the case I created just a boot partition with fdisk it complained about missing root file system mounting point. Even in the case when the USB stricks have been plugged in the right order the installer stumbled a bit creating the necessary partitions but allowed an option that eventually made progress through the partitioning successfully.
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