Antix core cli-installer separate home [solved]

[Member catfood]

Hi, I’m trying to install antiX core and wanted to use a separate home. I tried partitioning the drive in the antiX-core live cli-installer.I also tried partitioning separately before installer, but both fail the same.

Root seems to wipe and be ready to install on sda1 fine, then:

Do you want to use a separate ‘/home’ partition (y/N)? y
/home partition (hda1, sda2, etc): sda2
sda2 invalid. Retry:

Currently trying with
sda
-sda1 9G ext4
-sda2 7G ext4
-sda3 2G swap

Is there a size requirement on /home? or some other obvious thing I missed?
Thanks.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by anticapitalista. Reason: solved

Howdy Jessie.

[Member sybok]

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Hi, please clarify some of the below questions:
0) Check/Verify integrity of the downloaded ISO using check-sums.
1) Which version of antiX core (19.3?, 32/64-bit?) did you use?
2) How did you “try” to partition the drive?
The word “try” makes me suspect that something went wrong already in this step (but how would the installer see them).
3) Could you please post the output of lsblk?
4) Suggestion: Assuming you input the partition as text (antiX core), I wonder what would happen if you provide ‘/dev/sda2’.

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5) The partitions sizes seem to me to be fine; I recall an old suggestion saying swap = RAM/2.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by sybok. Reason: Typo fixed
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• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by sybok. Reason: New suggestion: /dev/sda2

[Member fatmac]

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I tried partitioning the drive in the antiX-core live cli-installer.I also tried partitioning separately before installer, but both fail the same.

Did you restart/reboot after creating your partitions(?), if not the system is using the original allocation table, (& doesn’t know about the changes).

Linux (& BSD) since 1999

[Forum Admin Dave]

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There was a bug in the cli-installer script.
You can download a newer version from here
https://gitlab.com/antiX-Dave/cli-installer-antix

A updated package should be available via the repo at some time.

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[Member catfood]

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Using:
antiX-19.3-sid_x64-core.iso
sha256 verified, but my gpg -recv keys sites all seem to be acting up lately for full gpg verify

lsblk partially posted above
loop0 /live/linux
sda
-sda1 9G ext4
-sda2 7G ext4
-sda3 2G swap
sr0 /live/boot

The first attempt was in the cli-installer, so no reboot there.
Then made partitions with parted, and set fs types with fdisk(which have stayed since reboots).
lsblk showed my partitions fine every time, but always stuck mid installer, so guessing Dave’s answer is right.

These settings above are all being tried in virtual box, but I was getting same issue on a netbook trying to keed old debian sid home, but install antix sid over debian 10 sid there. Those partitions have been set in stone for a few years there, but same fail. It’s not urgent for VB testing, but when I put it on hardware, a separate home has saved me a lot of extra backups when I break things.

I don’t know enough to splice the git tar into the sid iso, and without a home directory created yet, no idea how to extract into primordial install void and use 😀
I will try again later after I see my antix live usb get a cli-installer in it’s apt updgrades.
Thank you everyone.

Howdy Jessie.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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The fixed cli-installer is now available in the repos.
For those users with a downloaded core or net media, do (as root) before running the installer:

apt update && apt install cli-installer-antix

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[Member catfood]

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Wow, I’m speechless. Thank you so much!

Installer worked making new home, option showed up to use a separate home, but not destroy it’s data as well.

Mark SOLVED. Thanks.

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[Member johnjohn]

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Btw it happened with me in another way….
My hard drive was disconnected so… i tried to intall linux on the linux installer usb and it formatted the usb >_<

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