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Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2023 12:56 pm
by xeno74
Fienix 6.0.1 in a virtual QEMU PowerPC machine connected via a virtual bridge to the network:
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:40 pm
by xeno74
xeno74 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 6:44 am
caseycullen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:24 pm
I updated the "noboot" image on March 8. With this image, I believe you should be able to dd it to a partition, then run "fsck -f -y /dev/partition", then "resize2fs /dev/partition" without the large space requirement.
-Casey
I think, it could work if I dd it to a large partition but in the superblock on the img itself, there is an entry with a bigger size than the disk image is so it can’t boot from the disk image directly.
Screenshot:
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:46 am
by musa
HI
Am I wrong or can I only select a whole disk in the installer and not a partition to install?
I want to install on sdc2 but can only select sdc.
Have a nice day
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:30 am
by xeno74
musa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:46 am
HI
Am I wrong or can I only select a whole disk in the installer and not a partition to install?
I want to install on sdc2 but can only select sdc.
Have a nice day
Yes, it seems, that you can only select a whole disk.
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:52 am
by musa
xeno74 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:30 am
musa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:46 am
HI
Am I wrong or can I only select a whole disk in the installer and not a partition to install?
I want to install on sdc2 but can only select sdc.
Have a nice day
Yes, it seems, that you can only select a whole disk.
Hi christian
Thanks for reply.
Then I'll have to install manually, otherwise I'll lose 8 partitions with different linux dist.
Have a nice day
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:12 pm
by xeno74
musa wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:52 am
Then I'll have to install manually, otherwise I'll lose 8 partitions with different linux dist.
This is a good idea. Please try to copy with dd the file
fienix_6.0.1-noboot-r1.img to a partition with at least 20 GB.
After that check the file system with "
fsck -f -y /dev/<partition>".
Then expand the file system with resize2fs to the size of the partition with "
resize2fs /dev/<partition>".
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:07 pm
by musa
Hi
I have manually installed Fienix6.0.1.
I used an image printer to extract the contents of the img file to a usb disk.
Then I used Debian 64 to format my old Fienix partition (fienix6).
I inserted the Fienix udbdisk and opened a terminal.
cd /media/musa/fienix (usbdisk)
sudo rsync --stats --progress --numeric-ids -axAhHSP . /media/musa/Fienix6 (empty partition)
reboot and boot Fienix , but booted into a readonly system.
rebooted again and opened debian 64 .
Opened /etc/fstab on the Fienix6 partition. Of course wrong uid. New uid and save the change.
Reboot and boot into fienix6. All ok now.
Installed all the programs I need and created a new user and changed the language to Danish.
Thanks to Casey for a great job
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:16 pm
by xeno74
musa wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:07 pm
cd /media/musa/fienix (usbdisk)
sudo rsync --stats --progress --numeric-ids -axAhHSP . /media/musa/Fienix6 (empty partition)
Good idea! Well done!
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 5:19 pm
by sailorMH
I tried installation from live usb.
At first without success - it hangs during booting rootfs. Today I unpack image to other USB stick and it works. Thanks @caseycullen!
Boot commands are these:
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setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdf2 rootdelay=10"
boot -elf -noints -fatfs usbdisk1:vmlinux-6.1
and
usbdisk1: should be modified according your config and rootdelay not needed.
P.S. what is purpose of
zImage-6.1? Tried to load it like ramdisk and boot from it, but it not works.
Re: Fienix 6.0.1
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 7:28 pm
by xeno74
sailorMH wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 5:19 pm
P.S. what is purpose of
zImage-6.1? Tried to load it like ramdisk and boot from it, but it not works.
The zImage is a compressed kernel image with a smaller size than the default vmlinux image.
It loads faster from the internal CF card.
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boot -elf -noints -fatfs -z cf0:zImage-6.1
