Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Parodper
Hi, I am trying to install the 2021 ISO on a computer with multiple OS already installed (IDE 150GB HDD), so I was trying to install Debian on a extended partition. Since Hurd does not have USB support I tried installing it from a Live USB with qemu --hda /dev/sda --cdrom debian-hurd.iso. Th

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

Re: Installing on extended partition

2021-08-19 Thread Parodper
dev and ./MAKEDEV hd0s6 This last step was not necessary in QEMU, that is why I was asking. * Return to TTY1, write /dev/hd0s6 and continue * Everything works normally until I reach partman, it does not recognize the partition table, so I can't continue. O 19/08/21 ás 18:50, Samuel Thibault e

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

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

2021-08-22 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

2021-08-28 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

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

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 fin

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

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

Re: keyboard not responsive in QEMU Hurd image

2021-11-19 Thread Parodper
O 19/11/21 ás 14:43, Kent West escribiu: Wanting to see what the Hurd looks like, I basically followed the instructions at https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/stable/hurd-i386/README.txt. My host system is a Dell desktop running Debian bookworm/sid. I did: $ wget http://cdimage.debian