From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Pribyl Subject: Re: System installation from a USB stick Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:16:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <87y4xdhgn3.fsf@gnu.org> <877g3z2w60.fsf@gnu.org> <87r41jp2pa.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnslk4d6.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbqtfq0x.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwc5e2uj.fsf@gnu.org> <87k378be4g.fsf@gnu.org> <878unm4rtb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1463811484-783940625-1405966575=:2164" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49356) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9I8R-00048R-0E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:16:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9I8J-0008U5-M0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:16:26 -0400 Received: from sandbox.cz ([87.236.197.188]:50545 helo=mx.sandbox.cz) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9I8J-0008Ty-FP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:16:19 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sandbox.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7F338236 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:16:15 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <878unm4rtb.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Cc: guix-devel This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1463811484-783940625-1405966575=:2164 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Adam Pribyl skribis: > >> Kernel in dmesg identifies the device like /dev/sdf, doing >> mknod /dev/sdf b 8 80; mknod /dev/sdf1 b 8 81; mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt >> solves the problem. So definitely the drive is at sdf. It looks to me >> like there is some built in limit in udev for number of "scsi" devices >> in this case or something. > > Hmm, I have no idea. We=E2=80=99re using a relatively old version of u= dev, > maybe that will be solved when upgrading. > >>>> as there is only 1GB of RAM and it seems the install fetches too muc= h >>>> packages into ramdisk. Why is it not using the target file system >>>> already? >>> >>> Hmm, it=E2=80=99s actually initially populating the local store, on t= he RAM >>> disk, right. I agree that=E2=80=99s a problem we should address. >>> >>> However, most stuff are already in the store, unless the configuratio= n >>> being built uses many more packages, or use Xorg and related stuff. = Is >>> it what=E2=80=99s happening? >> >> The config.scm is as sugessted (just hostname and device modified): > > Hmm, OK. I=E2=80=99m surprised that this requires downloading more tha= n 1GiB of > stuff. It looks around 700MB comes from the USB image itself, another 700MB is t= o=20 be downloaded. I only have 478MB free ram disk. Together the /gnu has the= n=20 1.4GB roughtly. > I=E2=80=99m looking at a fix, but that=E2=80=99s not as simple as I wou= ld have liked. Maybe using the flash drive itself will serve better? >> Nothing special. I tried to bind mount the /gnu to a target drive, the >> download went OK (cca 1.4G) but then led to different kind of failure. > > I=E2=80=99d be interested in knowing about that one as well. :-) > this involved mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/ cp -a /gnu /mnt/ mount -o bind /mnt/gnu /gnu from now on, the target /mnt/gnu is filling up during guix system init. it ends up with initializing operating system under "/mnt" copying '/gnu......glibc-2.19.locales'... 2035 operations Bus error Thats it, the installation is not complete, there is just /gnu on target=20 drive. > Thanks, > Ludo=E2=80=99. Adam Pribyl ---1463811484-783940625-1405966575=:2164--