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?
Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
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Re: Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
Hello and Welcome to LXDE Forummainstreetmark wrote: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?
What Distribution are you using? Fedora LXDE? what release?
What do you mean by "CF"?
Thanks!
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Re: Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
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
A 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
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
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.less than 1771.0 MB
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sudo fdisk -l
http://www.lbotti.net/blog/2009/08/01/a ... nd-fedora/
http://www.khattam.info/howto-enable-su ... 05-31.html
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Re: Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
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.
Re: Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlashrokytnji wrote:CF stands for Compact Flash, which is bigger than a SD card and has a Microdrive type plug connection.
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
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Re: Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
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.
Re: Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
Weird ... Fedora has great Documentation System, I'm surprised you couldn't find that.mainstreetmark wrote: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.
Anyway, well done
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Re: Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
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
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Re: Problems installing from USB to CF (4gb)
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.