Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)

[mainstreetmark]

Hi.

I've got a touchpanel computer, with an Atom processor and no CD-ROM drive. I've made a bootable image of the installer for LDXE, and am able to boot the computer and get to the desktop of the installer USB. When I go through the "Install to Hard Drive" procedure, I get hung up on the step just after selecting my 4GB CF to install onto (the 2-panel Data Storage Devices" screen). The error message is:

"Your / Partition is less than 1771.0 MB which is lower than the recommended for a normal Fedora Live install." ..etc..etc..

The target is 4GB (specifically, 3815MB)! What am I missing?

[amjjawad]

Hi.

I've got a touchpanel computer, with an Atom processor and no CD-ROM drive. I've made a bootable image of the installer for LDXE, and am able to boot the computer and get to the desktop of the installer USB. When I go through the "Install to Hard Drive" procedure, I get hung up on the step just after selecting my 4GB CF to install onto (the 2-panel Data Storage Devices" screen). The error message is:

"Your / Partition is less than 1771.0 MB which is lower than the recommended for a normal Fedora Live install." ..etc..etc..

The target is 4GB (specifically, 3815MB)! What am I missing?

Hello and Welcome to LXDE Forum

What Distribution are you using? Fedora LXDE? what release?

What do you mean by "CF"?

Thanks!

[rokytnji]

CF stands for Compact Flash, which is bigger than a SD card and has a Microdrive type plug connection. I used a IDE to CF adapter to install Linux to a 8gig Microdrive (HitachI). Did this on a older IBM Laptop I sold with AntiX 8 on it to a person that wanted a cheap working wireless Linux Laptop.
CF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash
MicroDrive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive

Microdrive is better than CF for read write durability and life span as it is a mechanical miniature ide Platter drive used in Ipods instead of Solid State CF which were made for older cameras.

Since the OP shows

less than 1771.0 MB

I bet that they went with default auto install which ,makes a large /swap partition (a no no for CF cards or USB or SD flash) which left them with less than they had originally. I don't run Fedora or any rpm distro so just a wild guess. Maybe a Manual install option is in order instead of a auto install.

A

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sudo fdisk -l

will show what is going on running a live session with CF card installed inside (I own a couple of EEEPCs (701SD and 900) so am assuming that SSD drive went bad and CF card is a work around for this.

http://www.lbotti.net/blog/2009/08/01/a ... nd-fedora/

http://www.khattam.info/howto-enable-su ... 05-31.html

[mainstreetmark]

I was able to install it on a 16GB USB, so I suspect size is the issue. Today I'll try on my new 8GB CF.

[amjjawad]

CF stands for Compact Flash, which is bigger than a SD card and has a Microdrive type plug connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash

I should have done some search myself before asking
Thanks a lot!

Edit: I really need to change my glasses, you already post that link

[mainstreetmark]

Success on 8GB CF. There was no indication anywhere that i could find regarding minimum system requirements during the installer, or even online for that matter.

[amjjawad]

Success on 8GB CF. There was no indication anywhere that i could find regarding minimum system requirements during the installer, or even online for that matter.

Weird ... Fedora has great Documentation System, I'm surprised you couldn't find that.

Anyway, well done

[rockdoctor]

I've installed Fedora LXDE spin to a 4GB SD card without problems; in fact I did it about a week ago with the F16 pre-beta. I do a custom partitioning - no lvm, using the whole card, formatted ext4 for / (the root filesystem), no swap. Works great! FWIW, here'sthe output I get running df on the SD card (I'm running off the HDD)

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Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1        3883720  2727964   1116296  71% /media/Verne32

[mainstreetmark]

That's cool. I'm actually after more size (this is surprisingly a data store!), so i just went and got an 8gb, which i did not have at the time.