Unable to perform an “easy” custom antiX install on a CF boot drive

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  • February 8, 2023 at 11:24 am #99181
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      OS: antiX 22, 32-bit, full (antiX-22_386-full)
      on: ThinkPad X40, 1 GB RAM (https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X40)
      *using*: a 32 GB fast CF card as boot drive via adapter (https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/CompactFlash_boot_drive)

      Hi everybody,

      I post this here – but I consider this to be a bug, so it might be misplaced in this thread?

      First: everything runs fine in the end and beautiful antiX runs very fast and solid on this beautiful ThinkPad.

      But: It is not straight forward possible to perform a clean antiX install on this machine using a custom partitioning (“standard” install will work).

      I wanted to set up my own partioning (giving ext2 a try on this special config and using a smaller swap partition size).
      This won’t easily work neither via the (GUI) installer nor by prepartioning the CF with gParted.
      Creating the partitions will work at first in both cases, but then the non-swap partitions will be immediately mounted as a removable drive what blocks the ongoing install.

      Workaround I found: Create all partitions in the size you want but format them first as “swap” fs. This will prevent these paritions from being mounted and the installer will then allow yout to change the file system(s) successfully.

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      February 8, 2023 at 9:03 pm #99233
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        Next time since you are new during a live session before running the installer.

        Menu> Control Center> Disks> Configure automount.

        Give it try I guess. Back in the day. I used cf to ide adapters in conjunction with a cf style 30 gig micro-drive. I think it was a 3800 rpm drive.

        I have not experienced the problem you are having though. Maybe there is boot cheat key or line of code I am missing and some other member can chime in.

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