[Musix-users] Catch-22 on Musix installation to third HD

Sat Nov 4 01:34:20 CET 2006

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 <marcospcmusica at gmail.com> 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
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> >
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-- 
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