On 21/01/15 08:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 15:40:02 Gary Dale did opine
And Gene did reply:
On 20/01/15 06:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:03:50 Gary Dale did opine
And Gene did reply:
On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k
sectors, this after researching and finding a partitioner utility
that DOES know about 4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found
the gparted setup and fixed it, all I had to do was write it to
the disk., gparted, an old version is not capable of aligning
things correctly.
So the disk is all partitioned and formatted but empty.
Now I find I cannot bypass the disk partitioner in the installer,
nor can I force it to use these partitions on the hilited drive
This is using the installer in "expert" mode.
It will not let me change the "do not use" when I hilite a
partition and
hit enter. It doesn't even acknowledge the mount points "/boot"
and "/" already set.
This is less than a desirable thing.
How can I both bypass the broken partitioner, AND force it to use
the partitions it finds on the hilited drive?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
The installer takes you into the screen to select partitions. All
you have to do is tell it which partitions to use for what. It will
default to formatting them, I believe, but you can tell it not to
format. It's not that user-unfriendly.
I'll nominate that for the understatement of the decade.
GPT partition tables include a legacy partition table so it works
with older software.
Sorry I've got no screen prints to show you, but if you can figure
out how to switch the partition from "do not use" to ext4 or
whatever file system you prefer, the rest should be easy.
None of this is rocket science.
No problem selecting the ext4 filesystem, but it was not possible to
remove the Do Not Use string. One could hilite it, which turned the
red text blue, but nothing else could be done to it.
I finally just let it do as it pleased, because selecting a separate
/home partition just put me in a loop that went around 3 times
before I said tohell with it, its gonna do it its way or hit the
road jack.
So what it did do is broken:
gene@coyote:/boot$ sudo gdisk /dev/sdb
[sudo] password for gene:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.5.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
***************************************************************
Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format.
THIS OPERATON IS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE! Exit by typing 'q' if
you don't want to convert your MBR partitions to GPT format!
***************************************************************
Command (? for help): pDisk /dev/sdb: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Disk identifier (GUID): 5B8BD148-8604-0C54-28D4-BA5816BF1F23
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Total free space is 7533 sectors (3.7 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 19531775 9.3 GiB 0700
Linux/Windows
data
5 19533824 53078015 16.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap
6 53080064 1953523711 906.2 GiB 0700
Linux/Windows
data
Command (? for help): w
Which it did, supposedly fixing the alignment issues. Unfortunately,
it also made the drive disappear entirely.
/dev/sdc1: UUID="1321fc90-ba7a-4742-8176-f7b3a8284be5" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc2: LABEL="amandatapes-1-T" UUID="b7657920-d9a2-4379-
ae21-08a0651b65cc" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="ububoot"
UUID="f54ba7af-1545-43f3-a86e-bfc0017b4526" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="uburoot"
UUID="ec677e9c-6be6-4311-b97b-3889d42ce6ef" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: UUID="edc2880e-257d-4521-8220-0df5b57dcae4" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="home2" UUID="7601432d-7a30-42a3-80b5-57f08ae71f2a"
TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdd2: LABEL="opt2" UUID="748b01e1-ae7b-4b17-b8e9-c88429bcefbf"
TYPE="ext4"
Since its in a quick change cage, as /dev/sdb, plz note its missing
above. My elderly copy of gparted, 5.something, can find it, but
cannot initiate a write operation, it all fails.
So a broken install that took about 9 hours since I had to ok every
thing it wanted to do, is now history. I am not going back to
fedora as I detest being a damned guinea pig in a cage, serving as a
lab rat, who if killed, just gets replaced by another. They
officially don't have a quarter to call someone who might care. And
I had the impression there might be more than the 5 or so that have
replied to me in the last week or so. To those folks, a thank you
and a tip of my hat.
I have no clue what to look at next, but 2 broken wheezy installs
destroyed is enough. Maybe someone on the emc list I cc:'d here has a
better idea.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
It seems apparent that you don't understand how to use the installer.
You seem to be trying to do the wrong things with the installer
options. You can remove options from the list. You can only select the
one you want. If you have selected Ext4 then the Do not use option is
no longer selected, even if it remains on the list.
Is that why its red? If thats the case, why the hell doesn't it tell you?
Really, on an ncurses screen, how hard is it to clear than line of text,
or even over-write it
And, where is the mount point entry screen that should become active?
Never saw one.
How the hell would I know what you see on your screen? Someone else sent
links to screen shots for the Wheezy installer. The installer is easy to
use. Figure out what you are doing wrong.
You don't have to let it "do what it pleases". The installer doesn't go
around in loops, but it does expect you to make reasonable choices. For
example, if you select to not have a swap partition, it will ask you to
confirm that choice. If you tell it no, then it will take you back to
the partitioner.
The only other possible source for your problems is a corrupt
installer. Did you verify the disk image before using it?
Yes, md5sum of disk 1 is fine. I got the rest of it off the net from a us
server.
Thank you Gary.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
The rest of what? All you really need is the NetInst disk, not a full
install set, unless you have a rally crappy Internet connection.
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