Problems installing v3.2.2 to USB stick
Posted: 01 Jan 2017, 23:04
Having the need for Porteus after a longish absence, I booted up v3.1 from USB.
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
Just in case, I tried again using a non-GUI Debian from the hard disk. Same result.
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.
Is it that something is getting confused by the unusual partition layout of my hard disk?
My next idea is to try disconnecting the hard disk before re-trying.
Any better ideas?
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?