Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 15:40:02 Gary Dale did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 20/01/15 06:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:03:50 Gary Dale did opine
> >
> > And Gene did reply:
> >> On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings;
> >>>
> >>> I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k
> >>> sectors, this after researching and finding a partitioner utility
> >>> that DOES know about 4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found
> >>> the gparted setup and fixed it, all I had to do was write it to
> >>> the disk., gparted, an old version is not capable of aligning
> >>> things correctly.
> >>>
> >>> So the disk is all partitioned and formatted but empty.
> >>>
> >>> Now I find I cannot bypass the disk partitioner in the installer,
> >>> nor can I force it to use these partitions on the hilited drive
> >>> This is using the installer in "expert" mode.
> >>>
> >>> It will not let me change the "do not use" when I hilite a
> >>> partition and
> >>>
> >>> hit enter. It doesn't even acknowledge the mount points "/boot"
> >>> and "/" already set.
> >>>
> >>> This is less than a desirable thing.
> >>>
> >>> How can I both bypass the broken partitioner, AND force it to use
> >>> the partitions it finds on the hilited drive?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >>
> >> The installer takes you into the screen to select partitions. All
> >> you have to do is tell it which partitions to use for what. It will
> >> default to formatting them, I believe, but you can tell it not to
> >> format. It's not that user-unfriendly.
> >
> > I'll nominate that for the understatement of the decade.
> >
> >> GPT partition tables include a legacy partition table so it works
> >> with older software.
> >>
> >> Sorry I've got no screen prints to show you, but if you can figure
> >> out how to switch the partition from "do not use" to ext4 or
> >> whatever file system you prefer, the rest should be easy.
> >>
> >> None of this is rocket science.
> >
> > No problem selecting the ext4 filesystem, but it was not possible to
> > remove the Do Not Use string. One could hilite it, which turned the
> > red text blue, but nothing else could be done to it.
> >
> > I finally just let it do as it pleased, because selecting a separate
> > /home partition just put me in a loop that went around 3 times
> > before I said tohell with it, its gonna do it its way or hit the
> > road jack.
> >
> > So what it did do is broken:
> >
> > gene@coyote:/boot$ sudo gdisk /dev/sdb
> > [sudo] password for gene:
> > GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.5.1
> >
> > Partition table scan:
> > MBR: MBR only
> > BSD: not present
> > APM: not present
> > GPT: not present
> >
> > ***************************************************************
> > Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format.
> > THIS OPERATON IS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE! Exit by typing 'q' if
> > you don't want to convert your MBR partitions to GPT format!
> > ***************************************************************
> >
> >
> > Command (? for help): pDisk /dev/sdb: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
> > Disk identifier (GUID): 5B8BD148-8604-0C54-28D4-BA5816BF1F23
> > Partition table holds up to 128 entries
> > First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
> > Total free space is 7533 sectors (3.7 MiB)
> >
> > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
> >
> > 1 2048 19531775 9.3 GiB 0700
> > Linux/Windows
> >
> > data
> >
> > 5 19533824 53078015 16.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap
> > 6 53080064 1953523711 906.2 GiB 0700
> > Linux/Windows
> >
> > data
> >
> > Command (? for help): w
> >
> > Which it did, supposedly fixing the alignment issues. Unfortunately,
> > it also made the drive disappear entirely.
> > /dev/sdc1: UUID="1321fc90-ba7a-4742-8176-f7b3a8284be5" TYPE="ext4"
> > /dev/sdc2: LABEL="amandatapes-1-T" UUID="b7657920-d9a2-4379-
> > ae21-08a0651b65cc" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sda1: LABEL="ububoot"
> > UUID="f54ba7af-1545-43f3-a86e-bfc0017b4526" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> > TYPE="ext3"
> > /dev/sda2: LABEL="uburoot"
> > UUID="ec677e9c-6be6-4311-b97b-3889d42ce6ef" TYPE="ext4"
> > /dev/sda3: UUID="edc2880e-257d-4521-8220-0df5b57dcae4" TYPE="swap"
> > /dev/sdd1: LABEL="home2" UUID="7601432d-7a30-42a3-80b5-57f08ae71f2a"
> > TYPE="ext4"
> > /dev/sdd2: LABEL="opt2" UUID="748b01e1-ae7b-4b17-b8e9-c88429bcefbf"
> > TYPE="ext4"
> >
> > Since its in a quick change cage, as /dev/sdb, plz note its missing
> > above. My elderly copy of gparted, 5.something, can find it, but
> > cannot initiate a write operation, it all fails.
> >
> > So a broken install that took about 9 hours since I had to ok every
> > thing it wanted to do, is now history. I am not going back to
> > fedora as I detest being a damned guinea pig in a cage, serving as a
> > lab rat, who if killed, just gets replaced by another. They
> > officially don't have a quarter to call someone who might care. And
> > I had the impression there might be more than the 5 or so that have
> > replied to me in the last week or so. To those folks, a thank you
> > and a tip of my hat.
> >
> > I have no clue what to look at next, but 2 broken wheezy installs
> > destroyed is enough. Maybe someone on the emc list I cc:'d here has a
> > better idea.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> It seems apparent that you don't understand how to use the installer.
> You seem to be trying to do the wrong things with the installer
> options. You can remove options from the list. You can only select the
> one you want. If you have selected Ext4 then the Do not use option is
> no longer selected, even if it remains on the list.
Is that why its red? If thats the case, why the hell doesn't it tell you?
Really, on an ncurses screen, how hard is it to clear than line of text,
or even over-write it
And, where is the mount point entry screen that should become active?
Never saw one.
> You don't have to let it "do what it pleases". The installer doesn't go
> around in loops, but it does expect you to make reasonable choices. For
> example, if you select to not have a swap partition, it will ask you to
> confirm that choice. If you tell it no, then it will take you back to
> the partitioner.
>
> The only other possible source for your problems is a corrupt
> installer. Did you verify the disk image before using it?
Yes, md5sum of disk 1 is fine. I got the rest of it off the net from a us
server.
Thank you Gary.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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