Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-09-01 Thread Parodper
O 31/08/21 ás 22:34, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Parodper, le sam. 28 août 2021 14:35:16 +0200, a ecrit: /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 4208967, type=b, bootable #FreeDOS partition /dev/sda2 : start= 4209030, size=71682030, type=a6 #OpenBSD partition /dev/sda3 : start=7

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le sam. 28 août 2021 14:35:16 +0200, a ecrit: > O 28/08/21 ás 11:33, Samuel Thibault escribiu: > > Parodper, le sam. 28 août 2021 10:56:07 +0200, a ecrit: > > > I still get the unknown partition table, and doing head /dev/hd0s1 fails > > > with a «Input/Output error». head /dev/hd0 works

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-31 Thread Parodper
O 28/08/21 ás 16:04, Parodper escribiu: Now that I think about it, it might be caused by the drive size (150GB), because the 80GB slave driver appears fine, and it also has a logical partition. Scratch that. I just created a 150GB in QEMU (which, BTW, appears as having 161.1GB) and it appears f

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-28 Thread Parodper
O 28/08/21 ás 15:02, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Parodper, le sam. 28 août 2021 14:35:16 +0200, a ecrit: A quick calculation shows none of those are multiples of 4096. Then that's most probably why. I don't know if we could just drop the checks. You said that it was installing fine with the MAK

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le sam. 28 août 2021 14:35:16 +0200, a ecrit: > A quick calculation shows none of those are multiples of 4096. Then that's most probably why. I don't know if we could just drop the checks. You said that it was installing fine with the MAKEDEV-created entries? Possibly the checks are ove

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-28 Thread Parodper
O 28/08/21 ás 11:33, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Parodper, le sam. 28 août 2021 10:56:07 +0200, a ecrit: I still get the unknown partition table, and doing head /dev/hd0s1 fails with a «Input/Output error». head /dev/hd0 works fine. Tried doing settrans -a /dev/hd0s1 /hurd/storeio -T typed part:1

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le sam. 28 août 2021 10:56:07 +0200, a ecrit: > I still get the unknown partition table, and doing head /dev/hd0s1 fails > with a «Input/Output error». head /dev/hd0 works fine. > > Tried doing settrans -a /dev/hd0s1 /hurd/storeio -T typed part:1:device:hd0; > head /dev/hd0s1 and still g

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-28 Thread Parodper
O 25/08/21 ás 22:18, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Parodper, le lun. 23 août 2021 08:40:17 +0200, a ecrit: O 19/08/21 ás 20:34, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Tried using «dd bs=512 skip=1 seek=1 conv=notrunc if=debian-hurd.iso of=/dev/sda8». It still needs MAKEDEV to mount it, and does not recognize the

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le lun. 23 août 2021 08:40:17 +0200, a ecrit: > O 19/08/21 ás 20:34, Samuel Thibault escribiu: > > > * The partition with the ISO would be hd0s6 (I did dd if=debian-hurd.iso > > > of=/dev/sda6 on Linux), but if I try to write /dev/hd0s6 directly it > > > fails, > > > and trying to mount

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-22 Thread Parodper
O 19/08/21 ás 20:34, Samuel Thibault escribiu: * The partition with the ISO would be hd0s6 (I did dd if=debian-hurd.iso of=/dev/sda6 on Linux), but if I try to write /dev/hd0s6 directly it fails, and trying to mount the partition manually fails with a «Input Output Error». Ah! I hadn't understo

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 22 août 2021 22:46:04 +0200, a ecrit: > Parodper, le ven. 20 août 2021 20:15:09 +0200, a ecrit: > > - Create 5 logical partitions. On the fifth partition the drive disappears > > Ok, that I could reproduce :) > > It seems the issue is merely that there are not enough fr

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le ven. 20 août 2021 20:15:09 +0200, a ecrit: > - Create 5 logical partitions. On the fifth partition the drive disappears Ok, that I could reproduce :) It seems the issue is merely that there are not enough free inodes in the / FS, I'll fix that. Thanks for the reproducer! Samuel

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-20 Thread Parodper
O 19/08/21 ás 20:48, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 19 août 2021 20:42:05 +0200, a ecrit: whenever they derive the slightest from the "just press enter to get the default". (I meant deviate*) Samuel For now I can easily reproduce the partition bug: * Load QEMU. I do it

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 19 août 2021 20:42:05 +0200, a ecrit: > whenever they derive the slightest from the "just press enter to get > the default". (I meant deviate*) Samuel

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 20:34:19 +0200, a ecrit: > O 19/08/21 ás 20:19, Samuel Thibault escribiu: > > Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 20:01:37 +0200, a ecrit: > > > Aug 19 17:30:16 main-menu[1811]: (process:15055): Cannot create FIFO: No > > > space left on device > > > > That caught my eye:

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Parodper
O 19/08/21 ás 20:19, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 20:01:37 +0200, a ecrit: Aug 19 17:30:16 main-menu[1811]: (process:15055): Cannot create FIFO: No space left on device That caught my eye: how much RAM does your machine have? Optimizing the memory usage of the initr

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 20:01:37 +0200, a ecrit: > * Boot from USB, choose «Pseudo-graphical» in GRUB. (BTW are there > differences between this one and the text option? I can't tell) Well, compare the lists of available languages? > * The partition with the ISO would be hd0s6 (I did dd if

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 20:01:37 +0200, a ecrit: > Aug 19 17:30:16 main-menu[1811]: (process:15055): /bin/partman: line 113: > depmod: not found > Aug 19 17:30:16 main-menu[1811]: (process:15055): cat: can't open > '/proc/modules': No such file or directory > Aug 19 17:30:16 main-menu[1811]:

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Separating the threads for better parallelism. Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 20:01:37 +0200, a ecrit: > - With a 20G test.qcow2: I created 3 1G primary partitions set as «do not > use» and a 1G logical partition. The rest of the free space disappeared, and > reappeared when I deleted the logical

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Parodper
O 19/08/21 ás 18:50, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Please be very precise in explaining your problem, I couldn't reproduce it in qemu. I tried in the debian installer: - booted with a 10G disk - use manual partitioning - have it create a partition table - create a 1G primary partition (assigned auto

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 16:58:26 +0200, a ecrit: > However QEMU is too slow (takes quite a few hours to reach partman) Did you make sure to enable kvm? Samuel

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 18:28:19 +0200, a ecrit: > O 19/08/21 ás 17:03, Samuel Thibault escribiu: > > Hello, > > > > Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 16:58:26 +0200, a ecrit: > > > I am trying to install the 2021 ISO on a computer with multiple OS already > > > installed (IDE 150GB HDD), > >

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Parodper
O 19/08/21 ás 17:03, Samuel Thibault escribiu: Hello, Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 16:58:26 +0200, a ecrit: I am trying to install the 2021 ISO on a computer with multiple OS already installed (IDE 150GB HDD), Note that as our FAQ says, our current IDE driver is limited to LBA28, i.e. 128GB

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Parodper, le jeu. 19 août 2021 16:58:26 +0200, a ecrit: > I am trying to install the 2021 ISO on a computer with multiple OS already > installed (IDE 150GB HDD), Note that as our FAQ says, our current IDE driver is limited to LBA28, i.e. 128GB. It cannot access beyond that limit on the dis