Porteux 0.7 - USB thumbdrive issues

[Rava]

I was looking for one of my several 4 GB USB thumbdrives to install Porteux 0.7 but only found one that I want to keep as save boot media and will not touch it boot-sector-wise.

I then choose a 8GB stick I never formatted myself, and it has enough free space, but seems the manufacturer did a weird thing when setting up the drive. Now I wonder if that can be repaired without formatting it (formatting=I have to copy all its data off it first)

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root@rava:/mnt/sde/boot# ./porteux-installer-for-linux.run 
Creating directory /tmp/porteux-installer
Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing PorteuX Installer  100%  
Only 'dos' or 'msdos' partition table is supported.
Format your storage media using partition table 'dos' or 'msdos' and try again.

fdisk tells me this:

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Disk /dev/sde: 7.53 GiB, 8086618112 bytes, 15794176 sectors
Disk model: FlashDisk       
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x69737369

Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sde1       1869771365 2038460886  168689522  80.4G 69 unknown
/dev/sde2       1701519481 3571400945 1869881465 891.6G 73 unknown
/dev/sde3             2573       2573          0     0B 74 unknown
/dev/sde4       2885681152 2885733566      52415  25.6M  0 Empty

Partition table entries are not in disk order.

while gparted only sees one partition on /dev/sde

Can there something be done aside from making the filesystem new from the beginning with the need to copy all of its data off it first and copy all of its data on it afterwards?

[beny]

with gparted check the filesystem the zero on start is a bit weird,fat 32 only for the smart tv

[Ed_P]

GPart shows your 8 GB disk as fat32 and 7.53 GB, which is normal with formatting. The disk looks fine. Your fdisk shows your 8 GB disk as having 4 partitions, 3 with unknown format types and one Empty but the good news is it shows the drive is 912 GB not just 8 GB.

[beny]

the fat 32 kingston that i have the start sector is at 2048 Rava check the filesystem you need the dosfstools and mtools requaired by gparted to work with fat 32 system

[Rava]

the good news is it shows the drive is 912 GB not just 8 GB.

If I only could use the 912 GB

the fat 32 kingston that i have the start sector is at 2048 Rava check the filesystem you need the dosfstools and mtools requaired by gparted to work with fat 32 system

Which mtools could help me?

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root@rava:/# mtools
Supported commands:
mattrib, mbadblocks, mcat, mcd, mclasserase, mcopy, mdel, mdeltree
mdir, mdoctorfat, mdu, mformat, minfo, mlabel, mmd, mmount
mpartition, mrd, mread, mmove, mren, mshowfat, mshortname, mtoolstest
mtype, mwrite, mzip

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root@rava:/# mdoctorfat
-su: mdoctorfat: command not found

Seems Port 5.01 has only a partial installation of the mtools.

[donald]

I was looking for one of my several 4 GB USB thumbdrives to install Porteux 0.7 but only found one that I want to keep as save boot media and will not touch it boot-sector-wise.

Make an image of that drive [clonezilla] -- you can use the drive for something new then.

I then choose a 8GB stick.... weird thing ....I wonder if that can be repaired without formatting it (formatting=I have to copy all its data off it first)

messing with partitions / filesystems of a drive without a [safe] copy of the data
on it = bad idea!
....and if you have a copy, I would not waste my time trying to repair the shown
[fdisk] mess....dd the whole drive and start fresh/clean.

....it would take 1hr and you're set.

[Rava]

^
I took donald's advice and used gparted to create a new partition table and format all of the drive as fat32.

This is what fdisk shows now:

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root@rava:/Porteus_modules# fdisk -l /dev/sde
Disk /dev/sde: 7.53 GiB, 8086618112 bytes, 15794176 sectors
Disk model: FlashDisk       
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x68a68b68

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sde1        2048 15794175 15792128  7.5G  b W95 FAT32

Copying the data back to the thumbdrive right now.
And then hopefully the porteux installer script will work.

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And then hopefully the porteux installer script will work.

It did work:
(Now the drive is sde1 instead of sde when formatted the manufacturer weird way)

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root@rava:/mnt/sde1/boot# ./porteux-installer-for-linux.run 
Creating directory /tmp/porteux-installer
Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing PorteuX Installer  100%  

PorteuX is going to be installed in /dev/sde1

Press Enter to continue

Flushing filesystem buffers...
Installing extlinux bootloader...
Updating initrd with Porteux partition unique ID...
6111 blocks
6111 blocks
Setting permissions...














Installation finished successfully


You may reboot your system now and start using PorteuX.
Don't forget to set your BIOS to boot from this storage media.
root@rava:/mnt/sde1/boot# 

Am I hallucinating things?
I am sure it reads

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Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.

even when porteux stated this:

1- we don't use checksum.

The world works in mysterious ways it seems.

[beny]

hi, the system core don't have, but the installer yes

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ORIG_UMASK=`umask`
if test "n" = n; then
    umask 077
fi

CRCsum="503613798"
MD5="b715bd36f5c5224cf33910e5aeee23dd"
SHA="0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
SIGNATURE=""
TMPROOT=${TMPDIR:=/tmp}
USER_PWD="$PWD"
export USER_PWD
ARCHIVE_DIR=`dirname "$0"`
export ARCHIVE_DIR

label="PorteuX Installer"
script="./installer.sh"
scriptargs="$PWD"
cleanup_script=""
licensetxt=""
helpheader=""
targetdir="/tmp/porteux-installer"
filesizes="219417"
totalsize="219417"
keep="y"
nooverwrite="n"
quiet="n"
accept="n"
nodiskspace="n"
export_conf="n"
decrypt_cmd=""
skip="722"