Can't target /dev/mmcblk0 when installing

[Member Redsith]

Hi,
Trying to install antix, but i can’t as the installer script wont take my drive label (/dev/mmcblk0) and wants either hdx or sdx

Thanks

[Moderator caprea]

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Did you already try to change the drive label with gparted during the live-session ?

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Do you mean the cli-installer?

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[Anonymous]

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I checked
cli-installer –help
and it seems to me the expected commandline, in order to target /dev/mmcblk0, would be:
cli-installer mmcblk0

[Member tbuser48]

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Just a comment on a UEFI install with a mmcblk1 (in my case)…with a fat partition and a ext4 partition, gparted was naming them /mmcblk1p1 (fat) and /mmcblk1p2 (ext4). GPT by the way.

The punchline is that several programs (Boot Repair for one) were consistently dropping the p from the hdd naming.
Boot Repair was trying to use mmcblk11. I’m wondering since this is a fat partition if Boot Manager was choking on 9 characters.

2 Machines and at least 6 installs. IOW it didn’t happen just once.

Just a comment. 🙂

[Member Redsith]

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Hi,
This doesnt work, I did try cli-installer mmcblk0
It does let me partition the drive, but when it asks for root partition i cant input mmcblk0p2 or /dev/mmcblk0p2 or /media/mmcblk0p2 (fstab puts it in media)

mmcblk0p2 invalid. Retry
/dev/mmcblk0p2 invalid. Retry
/media/mmcblk0p2 invalid. Retry

I’m doing a core install.

[Member wean_irdeh]

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Anonymous wrote:

I checked
cli-installer –help
and it seems to me the expected commandline, in order to target /dev/mmcblk0, would be:
cli-installer mmcblk0

Redsith wrote:

Hi,
This doesnt work, I did try cli-installer mmcblk0
It does let me partition the drive, but when it asks for root partition i cant input mmcblk0p2 or /dev/mmcblk0p2 or /media/mmcblk0p2 (fstab puts it in media)

mmcblk0p2 invalid. Retry
/dev/mmcblk0p2 invalid. Retry
/media/mmcblk0p2 invalid. Retry

I’m doing a core install.

This is because the cli-installer is doing sanity check to make sure the root partition is in form of sdxy or hdxy,
where x is letter ‘a-k’ and y is number 1-19,
thus, any other partition such as sdj20, hdu30, or mmcblk0p2 will be treated as invalid input
although the restriction is only applies when input the root partition, not home partition

The dirty workaround is, edit the file manually by running

vi /usr/local/bin/cli-installer

then navigate into line 90 by pressing down key until you get

getroot() {

remove the line containing

while [[ "$ans" -ne 0 ]]

and

do

by navigate into the line first and then press ‘dd’

remove any line after

read -p $"Root partition (hda1, sda2, etc): " rdrv

until you found the closing curly bracket so the end result will be this one
line 90-93:

getroot() {
ans=1
read -p $"Root partition (hda1, sda2, etc): " rdrv
}

There, good to go. Press :wq to save the file. Now you can input the partition in cli-installer: mmcblk0p2. Remember, once you input the root partition, the cli-installer will immediately remove any files in it without warning and I’m not responsible with any damages caused by my suggestion above

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by wean_irdeh.

[Anonymous]

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Thanks for the excellent writeup explaining how to accomplish the workaround!
Should staff now re-title the topic “how to target /dev/mmcblk0 when installing” and move it to Tips-n-Tricks ?

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Anonymous wrote:

Thanks for the excellent writeup explaining how to accomplish the workaround!
Should staff now re-title the topic “how to target /dev/mmcblk0 when installing” and move it to Tips-n-Tricks ?

If the OP agrees, yes. I also agree it is a great write up. Thanks

When I get time, I’ll fix it properly in the cli-installer.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by anticapitalista.

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