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  1. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

    in Installing Mandriva

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    I was able to install UBUNTU to external disk. Its done.

    Figured out why mandrake is not booting from USB disk. I have to make a new initrd image which loads USB modules and sleep before reading everything from the disk. But when I do this it says "No space left on device..."

     

    Second, is it possible to install 2 linux on same drive? I want that /root should be common to both OS. I mean cant i create /root/Mandrake during installation? So that the system knows where to take things from? Or is there any other way to it?

  2. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    I dont think it can get worse anymore. I wiped off my hdd and then did partitioning. I was thinking that the first partition as FAT32 might be creating problems. But then i swiped it off. Now I am having following situations::

    sda 1 ---> Root, Reiserfs

    Sda 2 - --> fat32, (last part of the drive)

    sda 3 ----> Swap

    Sda4 ---> home.

     

    I have taken off the boot this time. Now the issues. Linux went flying as I attached hdd to primary ide. Opened linux as root, changed fstab,menu.lst, lilo.conf and device.map to sda from hda. Now I tried compling new initrd image since I read over the net it might be the fact that USB devices communicate over the ide channel at a burst rate; and also if the device is left idle for a second or two then it takes couple of seconds to transfer the thing back and forth since it doesn't get hooked to the RAM. For this they have a simple structure where in they load the USB modules first and then after mounting file systems they reread the partition table by "/sbin/sfdisk" and before this they let the sys sleep so that USB device can be mounted... they use "/bin/sleep 5".

     

    Now problem is during this procedure I get error "CP: filename, No space left on the device".

     

    Meanwhile I am on track to install UBUNTU since it can easily support laptops. Secondly, mandrake doesnt verify my laptop's screen that is wide screen 15.1 inch.

     

     

    Laptop Make : HP 2136

  3. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    It was done using IDE and then later connected USB. Selected UPGRADE option and then it was loaded using USB only...the last screen is after all this process. Just a thought stuck me. Now i wiped the drive. Starting from scratch using another HDD. After install i ll select upgrade by connecting the drive to the USB. Secondly, i ve done the following

     

    sda 1 ---- 2GB ---Boot

    sda2 ---- 5gb --- root

    sda3 ---- 800mb ----swap

    sda4 ---10gb ---- home..

     

    However, i am planning to wipe off sda4 and have 15gig of root instead. Any suggestion? The reason is earlier sda1 was a vfat partition. And also m selecting Primary partitions this time under expert mode and not Logical drives.

     

    After all done am planning to put up UBUNTU in for my laptop... so ide connect would be for the desktop and for rest it would be USB... Ubuntu. Then i ll try figuring out what UBUNTU is having for booting from external disk.... gosh!!!!! Hell pain in here :wall:

  6. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    It is having "/" but after a space

     

    The system is not able mount the root filesystem, if i am nt wrong. what could be the possibility? Any idea? Can you send me the image of the one you are using? I'll change the fstab accordingly...if its possible. Might be there is just a minute prob which we are unable to look at ???

     

    I think the only issue is with the sleep thing. Might be the USB devices are a bit slower and thats why it is happening....

  7. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    The last screen of halt...

    md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Red Hat nash version 4.1.9mdk starting
Loading reiserfs.ko module
Mounting /proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs
Creating device files
mounting tmpfs on /dev
starting udev
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem with flags notail
mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs flags notail
well, retrying without the option flags
mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs
well, retrying read-only without any flag
mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed:2
umount /initrd/sys failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed:2
Initrd finished.
Freeing uinused kernel memory: 200k Freed
Kernel Panic. No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

     

    My guess was that there is a lag between USB2.0 External and the init. Thought putting

     /bin/sleep 5

    command but for that i need files in LIB folder of the image. When i try to copy i get error "No more space left on the device".

     

    Any guesses where am I going wrong? If anyone suggests any patches to do the thing... or if I can get this kindda image from anyone or anywhere which i can copy to the root folder??

     

    :unsure:

  10. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    FSTAB

    /dev/sda5 reiserfs notail 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/deb/sda7 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022, user, iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850, noauta,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0, fs=ext2:vfat, --, umask=0022, iocharste=iso8859-1, sync, codepage=850 0 0 
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0022, iocharset=sio8859-1, codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

     

    Menu.lst

    timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 devfs=nomount acpi=on resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=794
initrd (hda0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title windows
root (hd1,0)
map (0X81) (0X81)
map (0X80) (0X81)
makeactive
chainloader +1

title 2681-10
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 devfs=nomount acpi=on resume=/dev/sda6
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img
title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 devfs=nomount acpi=on resume=/dev/sda6 
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 failsafe acpi=on resume=/dev/sda6  fs=nomount
initrd(hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

    Device.map

    (hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/hda

  13. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    Stuck again.....

     

    Finally!! Here is what i did::

     

    i booted the laptop with new dvd that i burnt for mandrake and chose the option to upgrade the Linux on usb drive. Worked.. checked the packages and installing bootloader. Now the heck prob with grub in installation itself:

    This is the Menu

     

    linux ---> boots at sda5 Root partition on usb

    Windows ---> laptop hdd

    2048-381 ---> /boot/vmlinuz on sda6

    linux-nonfb --->/boot/vmlinuz

    failsafe --->/boot/vmlinuz

    alt-win --->sda fat partition

    windows 1 ---> /dev/sda1 again fat partition

     

    why do i have these many copies???? Can i delete them?

  16. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    It just stuck me that what if i upgrade the thing on sda? I mean I ll boot from install cd and will select upgrade using GRUB as the option. In that case the system will find the drive sda and will mount it to the linux fs. Then prob'ly gonna search the packages and then gonna edit bootloader. Just a guess.... giving it a try will post the results.

     

    So far I am in a situation where m about to tear my hair... its frustrating: 5dAYs trying to install Mandrake :(

     

    Shouldn't need to worry about the proc error. As long as the /etc/fstab are pointing to /dev/sdax for the partitions, and /etc/lilo.conf has been configured to see /dev/sdax instead of the /dev/hdax used during install - it should apply lilo, and then allow you to boot from it.

     

    What errors are you getting during boot? Anything different to before?

     

    It gets stuck on the init loading process. Kernel panic :(

     

    I thought might be problem with pc since my desktop is having the award bios and have option to load USB-FDD or USB-zip from BIOS but not hdd. I thought that might be a problem so installed on a system which recognized things but same problem it is not booting..kernel panic.

  18. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    Ok here are the things..

     

    I created 3 partitions as:

    sda5 - root

    sda6 - swap

    sda7 - home

     

    sda1 - Default from the harddisk having the setup (note: it is the first partition on the drive).

     

    Now i did what all you said. It booted off from USB and showed lilo. I selected lilo linux partition and it started loading. It then stopped showing "kernel panic. try passing option to init by initd = " something.

     

     

    Fstab is having all the partitions:

    /dev/sda1

    /dev/sda5

    and so on.

     

    But for cd rom it says something like /dev/hdd = cd rom. Same for floppy it says fd0. I am unable to boot into linux the reason being now USB is not booting it in and from master i cant boot since i changed fstab contents. It gets stuck on initrd parameters.

  21. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    Yes the windows shows it and Linux doesnt. I deleted everything started off again. Now i did everything in expert mode under partitioning; formatted them; mounted them. Clicked done and tadaaa it is back "HDLISTS error". But worst part is when i put back hdd to master and not usb it get installed like the way i want. What should i do now?

     

    Basically what i want is to boot off from external USB and firewire. The reason being I am learning linux right now. I dont want to screw any of my system. Second, installing linux again and again is a problem. I ll install this to external disk. Whichever distro suits me i ll get it on my laptop. And the reason why i want mandrake is I had been working on it since a month now. WHatever i have learnt will be wasted if i shift to anyelse.

     

    TIA and thanks a tonne for your time.

  22. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by Compugen

    I chose reiserfs only. Now its killing me. Linux dont like me or something, i guess :(

     

    I chose not to format anything and it said "Mounting /dev/sda6" and all of a sudden popped up "HDLISTS not found" and back to partition screen... :hanged:

     

     

    :EDIT:

     

    Found a problem now. I took off hard disk and plugged it to laptop did PTDD and now again ptdd is showing me duplicate partitions with different fs. And i never selected these.... any help?

  23. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

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    Ok here it is. Just what I thought. I opened the drive under xp with PTDD and it showed me 8partitions out of which I am aware of 4 namely:

    1 FAT32 for setups and iso's of linux

    1 swap

    1 root

    1 home

     

    Some empty space, thought i ll format it later after asking someone so that i can place my music and shared things in that accessible by win and lin both.

     

    I have cleaned every partition but the first one. Now i ll go to disk partitioning thing and will try the one you told me. Also, i would be grateful if you could tell me which is better ext3, linux native or the one you said. I am quite new to linux but been years in windows. so i cant just let go with windows. All my programming things had been good in windows. And being into security i ll definitely need it.

     

    All the help is really appreciated.

     

    TIA

     

    EDIT

    UNder custom partitioning:

    Swap -- 1GB (1912 to 2047 cyl) formatted

    Root-- 5GB (2048 to 2688 cyl) formatted

    Home -- 10gb (2689 to 3971 cyl) formatted

     

    I clicked done and now the *&%^ problem

     

    *****

    Choose the partitions you want to format:

    sda5(1GB swap, ext2:vfat)

    sda6(4.9gb,/,reiserfs)

    sda7(9.8gb,/home, ext2:vfat) :wall:

     

    why its doin this to me:(

  25. Installing Mandrake on USB 2.0 Disk

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by Compugen

    Hi

    I am new to the forum. Before posting this up I actually searched forum for installation on USB disk and was all the open threads. I would like to know if by any way we can do this. I have read all over the net that there are work arounds. But since I am new to Linux I am quite a bit lost.

     

    I have tried booting with the hdd disk attached and Mandrake 10.1 had /dev/sda1 option in the installation. I started the process. Now the problem comes. As soon as it asks for the partition. I create following in the drive:

     

    Its 40GB Disk

    14GB -- Reserve for shared and other iso

    248MB - Swap

    5GB - /root

    10GB - home

     

    Now under custom partitioning i select following types as under:

     

    Swap Linux Swap

    RootExt2 (Journalised FS)

    HomeJournalised FS ext2

     

    Formatting swap...done

    Formatting root.....done

    formatting home-----Failed

    error it shows is something like "I do not know how to format sda7 in type ext2:vfat file system." At times it does the formatting and as soon as I press done it shwos "Hdalists not found." it takes back to partitioning.

     

    Please help with it coz i know after installing it like this we can make a custom kernel to load the USB by default or atleast a script so that it checks for USB first and if found it will boot the device

     

    TIA

    :::::Update:::::

     

    I tried installing it again by attaching the IDE to primary port instead of USB and it went flying well....

     

    Any idea why is that happening? Sda thing gets error like "HDlists not foudn" and so on... and now where should i change hda to sda now? secondly, cant linux get to knw what i am attaching. Like here i ll have to change sda in fstab as well. Any idea to update these things automatically.

     

     

    TIA

    All the help is really appreciated

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