After a quick look at the latest announcements, I thought I would get the latest v3.2.2.
As a bonus, it would give me the chance to get a feel for 4 different desktops.
I downloaded the xfce 64 iso (and later the other 3).
I'm trying to install it to a new 8GB USB stick. 8GB is a little over the top for Porteus, so I partitioned it with a FAT32 partition for
data using about half the stick. The rest I pairtioned into 4 x 1GBish ext4 and 1 with the remainder.
Now I want to install the xfce-porteus to P2.
I copy the 4 ISOs to P1 (labelled fatty), mount the xfce ISO and copy its contents to P2.
In the terminal as root, I cd'd to P2 and ran the installer script.
I got something like this
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Installing Porteus to /dev/sdc2
WARNING: Make sure this is the right partition before proceeding.
Type 'ok' to continue or press Ctrl+c to exit.
ok
Flushing filesystem buffers...
Using extlinux bootloader.
Installation failed with error code '3'.
Please ask for help on the Porteus forum: www.porteus.org/forum
and provide the information from /mnt/sdc2/debug.txt
Exiting now...
Booted into Porteus to post this.
Realised while posting that I hadn't started a nested shell with sh.
Tried again. Same result.
The debug.txt below is from this last try, as is the result above.
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device: /dev/sdc
partition: /dev/sdc2
partition number: 2
partition mount point: /mnt/sdc2
installation path: /mnt/sdc2
subfolder:
filesystem: ext4
bootloader: extlinux
error code: 3
system: porteus 3.17.4-porteus x86_64
mount details: /dev/sdc2 /mnt/sdc2 ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,data=ordered 0 0
full partition scheme:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1946019d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 209717247 104857600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 481771520 1953523711 735876096 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 209717248 335546367 62914560 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 481773568 563513343 40869888 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 563515392 565612543 1048576 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 569810944 915841023 173015040 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda8 1064448000 1406463999 171008000 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 1406466048 1943037951 268285952 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 1943040000 1953523711 5241856 82 Linux swap
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 8002 MB, 8002732032 bytes
241 heads, 36 sectors/track, 1801 cylinders, total 15630336 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc6ab12ca
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 32 15630335 7815152 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 8002 MB, 8002732032 bytes
247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1020 cylinders, total 15630336 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a14f1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2048 6146047 3072000 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdc2 * 6146048 8243199 1048576 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 8243200 10340351 1048576 83 Linux
/dev/sdc4 10340352 15630335 2644992 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 10342400 12439551 1048576 83 Linux
/dev/sdc6 12441600 14538751 1048576 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7 14540800 15630335 544768 83 Linux
My next idea is to try disconnecting the hard disk before re-trying.
Any better ideas?