Fienix 5.1 Spark

[caseycullen]

Hello,

I have decided to upgrade my first Fienix install on my X50000 but I have an issue with the last fienix full img download from here : https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/p/u-boot.html

I have this message

Loading ramdisk from FIT Image at 1c00000 ....
Bad FIT ramdisk image format!
Ramdisk image is corrupt or invalid
I have tried to change the kernel to 6.2 replace the .dtb no change

Any idea ?

Thanks

Hi - what boot commands are you entering?
-Casey

[gordini21]

Hello,
I have found the.issue, i hace used an old way for booting. Without the uinitrd. Now it.works

Just two another question.

How Can i update my first installation on my hard drive ? Is there any tool to do that ?

And i have an issue with the network, still present on the New version. I.need to unplugged and.plugged the RJ45 connector each Time After booting. The network is not connected if i don t don t do that.
Under morphos it works directly
Any Idea ?

Thanks and thanks for the job Fienix is a Amazing linux distri.

[Hypex]

Reason: Under Windows, obviously, it is (almost) impossible to create a working Fienix-USB stick using the USB Image Tool.
I had contacted the developer who took a lot of time to solve my problem - very kind and supportive and I appreciate his efforts.
Unfortunately, this is what he wrote in the support forum:

I just found this and never heard of it. Is this built into Windows or a third party? I'm surprised such a basic tool isn't built into the OS. This makes it very limiting. A USB image tool that cannot write an image to disk because the OS doesn't understand it? It's an image. It doesn't need to understand it.

However, this is a common problem. When USB/ISO hybrid images became common they had the same problem. I don't know if it's changed but every Linux image I write to USB in the last few years did not boot because it lacked boot code.I needed to use a tool like Rufus to "hack" the image. I never understood why they offered images that were fine on CD but never worked on USB. Why not offer a fully working image instead of confusing people? Most people would have used USB so also didn't know why there were not many complains about Linux images being broken. Also did you try Rufus?

Now, being you have an X5000, did you try and avoid Windows problems by using AmigaOS to burn the image instead? You intend to use it on that hardware so it makes sense! RawDisk can do it for you. A bit quirky but it works. However, even the OS4 developers recommends to use Windows or Linux for the job. I don't know why but they don't seem to kmow of the tools available for the OS they develop for or just don't recommend them for use.

[Hypex]

How Can i update my first installation on my hard drive ? Is there any tool to do that ?

I just noticed your question and how there isn't an answer in months. I've been asking the same question across the board. I never did see an answer. A simple no, you need to erase all your data, and fully install it from scratch would sufficed. Upgraders are left in the dark!

[caseycullen]

How Can i update my first installation on my hard drive ? Is there any tool to do that ?

I just noticed your question and how there isn't an answer in months. I've been asking the same question across the board. I never did see an answer. A simple no, you need to erase all your data, and fully install it from scratch would sufficed. Upgraders are left in the dark!

I haven't tried so I can't give a definitive answer. Updating your /etc/apt/sources.list to the new version and upgrading will probably work for most packages. Creating a clean dist-upgrade path is a tedious process that I didn't have time to do. My recommendation is to back up your home directory (including hidden files) to a USB drive or online storage, install the new version, and restore your home directory.
-Casey

[Hypex]

I haven't tried so I can't give a definitive answer. Updating your /etc/apt/sources.list to the new version and upgrading will probably work for most packages. Creating a clean dist-upgrade path is a tedious process that I didn't have time to do. My recommendation is to back up your home directory (including hidden files) to a USB drive or online storage, install the new version, and restore your home directory.
-Casey

Thanks for the info. Once caveat is where to backup from. I should have backed up from Fienix but I backed from an older Ubuntu and ran into permissions. So then backed it up from root and hope it doesn't mess with the user permissions.

I did a test update but found it failed. I updated all components and it broke brisk menu. I tried reinstalling but it was too far gone. At this point it was only an update and upgrade of current release.

Later I did try a full dist-upgrade. It did work and download packages. But the system was broken. The desktop apps were broken I only had a partial desktop working. It was also slow and kept thrashing the HDD. So safe to say an upgrade in place won't work very well. And that is without changing the sources list.