Catch-22 on Musix installation to third HD
Hey all: Thanks for the FTP link the other day, Marcos. I finally got Musix downloaded and burned. Running from live CD it looks promising, so I'd like to get it installed on my 866 MHz 256MB machine. The computer already has 2 hard drives, so I pulled an old 1.18GB from storage; should have just barely enough space, right? (I can get another one if necessary). OK, now when I try to install Musix using the old-style Knoppix installer (little nervous about Kanotix; it crashed on me once already) I get the system requirements error, basically telling me that there's insufficient disk space and would I like to repartition. OK, no problem, I start GParted and created on /dev/hdd a swap partition of 150MB (over the required 128MB) and a primary EXT2 partition of the remaining space (just over the necessary 1GB). After the machine huffs and puffs through the changes, I return to installation... only to receive the same system requirements error. I suspect that this has to do with the swap partition being locked by Musix itself (the copy running from CD) as in the background terminal it says something like "resource error: /dev/hdd2 swapon" just before generating that system requirements error. Also, if I go back into GParted, I find the swap partition locked. I unlock it... and Musix locks it again, apparently. Thus the Catch-22. Musix insists on locking the swap partition while it's running, but you can't install Musix without locking it. I don't know if I need to manually run swapoff (what's the syntax for that, anyway) before hitting install or use the error override setting or what. Any help would be appreciated. I can't wait to try out Musix. Thanks!!!
El Sáb 04 Nov 2006 02:54, J.M. escribió:
Hey all:
Thanks for the FTP link the other day, Marcos. I finally got Musix downloaded and burned. Running from live CD it looks promising, so I'd like to get it installed on my 866 MHz 256MB machine. The computer already has 2 hard drives, so I pulled an old 1.18GB from storage; should have just barely enough space, right?
You need 1.8gb at leas, but it would be fine to have more than 2.5 at least
(I can get another one if necessary). OK, now when I try to install Musix using the old-style Knoppix installer (little nervous about Kanotix; it crashed on me once already)
Dont worry about those crashes: kanottix installer just configures the installation and then it uses the knoppix installer too
I get the system requirements error, basically telling me that there's insufficient disk space and would I like to repartition. OK, no problem, I start GParted and created on /dev/hdd a swap partition of 150MB (over the required 128MB) and a primary EXT2 partition of the remaining space (just over the necessary 1GB). After the machine huffs and puffs through the changes, I return to installation... only to receive the same system requirements error.
But... do you have at least one linux partition with more than 2.0 gb of free space?
I suspect that this has to do with the swap partition being locked by Musix itself (the copy running from CD) as in the background terminal it says something like "resource error: /dev/hdd2 swapon" just before generating that system requirements error.
Maybe: you can disable swap files at boot time with a cheatcode, I think:; english noswap will be fine, or english swapoff (i dont remember, see cheatcodes.txt)
Also, if I go back into GParted, I find the swap partition locked. I unlock it... and Musix locks it again, apparently. Thus the Catch-22. Musix insists on locking the swap partition while it's running, but you can't install Musix without locking it. I don't know if I need to manually run swapoff (what's the syntax for that, anyway) before hitting install or use the error override setting or what. Any help would be appreciated. I can't wait to try out Musix.
Do this things, and tell me, cheers -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode * Torrent Download: https://e.ututo.org.ar/utiles/torrent/MusixGNU-Linux0.59.iso.torrent
Marcos: Thanks for the quick reply. No, I don't have 2.0GB or larger; I think that must be the sticking point. Perhaps this could be fixed in that English error message, which states that you only need 1GB, not 2. That's what confused me. I'll dig up a bigger HD and try again... post with results. Thanks! On 11/3/06, Marcos Guglielmetti <[email protected]> wrote:
El Sáb 04 Nov 2006 02:54, J.M. escribió:
Hey all:
Thanks for the FTP link the other day, Marcos. I finally got Musix downloaded and burned. Running from live CD it looks promising, so I'd like to get it installed on my 866 MHz 256MB machine. The computer already has 2 hard drives, so I pulled an old 1.18GB from storage; should have just barely enough space, right?
You need 1.8gb at leas, but it would be fine to have more than 2.5 at least
(I can get another one if necessary). OK, now when I try to install Musix using the old-style Knoppix installer (little nervous about Kanotix; it crashed on me once already)
Dont worry about those crashes: kanottix installer just configures the installation and then it uses the knoppix installer too
I get the system requirements error, basically telling me that there's insufficient disk space and would I like to repartition. OK, no problem, I start GParted and created on /dev/hdd a swap partition of 150MB (over the required 128MB) and a primary EXT2 partition of the remaining space (just over the necessary 1GB). After the machine huffs and puffs through the changes, I return to installation... only to receive the same system requirements error.
But... do you have at least one linux partition with more than 2.0 gb of free space?
I suspect that this has to do with the swap partition being locked by Musix itself (the copy running from CD) as in the background terminal it says something like "resource error: /dev/hdd2 swapon" just before generating that system requirements error.
Maybe: you can disable swap files at boot time with a cheatcode, I think:;
english noswap
will be fine, or
english swapoff
(i dont remember, see cheatcodes.txt)
Also, if I go back into GParted, I find the swap partition locked. I unlock it... and Musix locks it again, apparently. Thus the Catch-22. Musix insists on locking the swap partition while it's running, but you can't install Musix without locking it. I don't know if I need to manually run swapoff (what's the syntax for that, anyway) before hitting install or use the error override setting or what. Any help would be appreciated. I can't wait to try out Musix.
Do this things, and tell me, cheers
-- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode * Torrent Download: https://e.ututo.org.ar/utiles/torrent/MusixGNU-Linux0.59.iso.torrent
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El Sáb 04 Nov 2006 05:08, J.M. escribió:
Marcos:
Thanks for the quick reply. No, I don't have 2.0GB or larger; I think that must be the sticking point.
Yes it si :(
Perhaps this could be fixed in that English error message, which states that you only need 1GB, not 2.
Wow: this message is really bad, I will chek it : it's into the installer?
That's what confused me. I'll dig up a bigger HD and try again... post with results.
Sure, good luck!
Thanks!
On 11/3/06, Marcos Guglielmetti <[email protected]> wrote:
El Sáb 04 Nov 2006 02:54, J.M. escribió:
Hey all:
Thanks for the FTP link the other day, Marcos. I finally got Musix downloaded and burned. Running from live CD it looks promising, so I'd like to get it installed on my 866 MHz 256MB machine. The computer
already
has 2 hard drives, so I pulled an old 1.18GB from storage; should have
just
barely enough space, right?
You need 1.8gb at leas, but it would be fine to have more than 2.5 at least
(I can get another one if necessary). OK, now when I try to install Musix using the old-style Knoppix installer
(little
nervous about Kanotix; it crashed on me once already)
Dont worry about those crashes: kanottix installer just configures the installation and then it uses the knoppix installer too
I get the system requirements error, basically telling me that there's insufficient disk space and would I like to repartition. OK, no problem, I start GParted
and
created on /dev/hdd a swap partition of 150MB (over the required 128MB)
and
a primary EXT2 partition of the remaining space (just over the necessary 1GB). After the machine huffs and puffs through the changes, I return
to
installation... only to receive the same system requirements error.
But... do you have at least one linux partition with more than 2.0 gb of free space?
I suspect that this has to do with the swap partition being locked by
Musix
itself (the copy running from CD) as in the background terminal it says something like "resource error: /dev/hdd2 swapon" just before generating that system requirements error.
Maybe: you can disable swap files at boot time with a cheatcode, I think:;
english noswap
will be fine, or
english swapoff
(i dont remember, see cheatcodes.txt)
Also, if I go back into GParted, I find the swap partition locked. I unlock it... and Musix locks it again, apparently. Thus the Catch-22. Musix insists on locking the swap
partition
while it's running, but you can't install Musix without locking it. I don't know if I need to manually run swapoff (what's the syntax for
that,
anyway) before hitting install or use the error override setting or
what.
Any help would be appreciated. I can't wait to try out Musix.
Do this things, and tell me, cheers
-- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode * Torrent Download: https://e.ututo.org.ar/utiles/torrent/MusixGNU-Linux0.59.iso.torrent
_______________________________________________ Musix GNU+Linux - www.musix.org.ar Musix-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/musix-users
-- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode * Torrent Download: https://e.ututo.org.ar/utiles/torrent/MusixGNU-Linux0.59.iso.torrent
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