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Creating a USB Porteus drive cp problem
Posted: 06 Aug 2022, 04:41
by Ed_P
I execute a script to copy as root all ISO files to the USB drive and I get:
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cp: failed to preserve ownership for '/mnt/sda1/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi': Operation not permitted
cp: failed to preserve ownership for '/mnt/sda1/EFI/boot/chain.c32': Operation not permitted
cp: failed to preserve ownership for '/mnt/sda1/EFI/boot/ldlinux.e64': Operation not permitted
for each of the ISO files. How do I preserve ownership?
Doing this script in 4.0 worked.
The copy is a simple:
where $LOOP is LOOP=isoloop and $USB is USB='/mnt/sda1'.
Creating a USB Porteus drive cp problem
Posted: 06 Aug 2022, 06:06
by itrukrakso
Hi
I guess sda1 is a FAT partition ???
If the USB drive should be bootable for EFI the 1st partition must be a FAT partition.
FAT knows no rights management,so the ownership can't be preserved.
try:
cp -n
Creating a USB Porteus drive cp problem
Posted: 06 Aug 2022, 06:37
by Ed_P
Thank you
itrukrakso. Yes, sda1 is a FAT32 partition and the drive will be booted on an EFI system. Based on Google searches for a solution what I did was add --no-preserve=mode to the cp command which solved the ownership error problem.
But now I have a new error. With the files and folders copied to the drive I ran the Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com app on the USB drive and got:
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Verifying archive integrity... 100% MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing Porteus Installer 100% ... Extraction failed.
Terminated
I don't know what the Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com app is trying to extract.
Added in 11 minutes 6 seconds:
Interesting. I just ran the Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com app by clicking on it rather than my script doing it and it ran successfully.
Now to see if the USB drive boots.
