BT4 beta Hard drive install

thanks pure.. worked like a charm on my macbook aluminun except i dropped the swap

EDIT: Alright I got it fully working. Managed to install BT4 on a 4GB USB stick. It's the minimum it needs.

Hi guys,

I've been trying to install BT4 on a 4GB USB stick and I haven't really been succesful.

I did all the above steps while changing the /dev/sda to /dev/sdb (cause sdb is my USB stick) but it's still not working. When I put the USB in it says ... well, it just doesn't recognize it as bootable.

Also, it looks like to /root partion needs at least 3.5 GB otherwise it can not copy all the contect there.

I've set the boot parition to 100MB and the Swap to 250MB.

Edit: Never mind, I got it working, but now after it passes the boot menu it gives the fallowing:
Kernel panic VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,11)

I will probably figure it out in the end. Thanx anyway.

One hint for the lilo.conf:

I would recommend to include the statement "compact" at any point into the file. This will drastically improve the load speed.


cu,
keule

were can i find the lilo file again :s lost it and need to install to a laptop bt4 and cant remember how i did this as i did for bt3 plz help or send link that helps me please thanks if you can help. :d

I have not tried yet the bt4 beta, and i'm curious about installation that came out..

Is the copying of kernel to boot directory are omited?

*cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/bt/boot

Because I've seen 2-3 guide of bt4-beta installation, and all them for did not include it!?

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Originally Posted by someother

Hi,

I just installed bt4 using your manual and realized that I had no swap-space, so I added a line for /dev/sda2 in /etc/fstab to fix that.
But now I'm wondering if there is a reason why you didn't include /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2:



Thank you for your help!
someother

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well done now i lll be gratefull if you make video tuturial for us dummies adf pulblish it on youtube of smht.... thank you in advance..

Hi,

I'm new here, I'm french, and i'm a noob on linux :D

I have a problem during the installation of bt4 on my USB hard Disk:

root@bt:~# lilo -v
LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 19-Feb-2007, and compiled at 14:08:06 on May 15 2008
Ubuntu

Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/sde
Warning: /def/sde is not on the first disk
Fatal: creat /boot/map~: Read-only file system

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Somebody can help me please ? I don't know what to do :x

Thanks

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Originally Posted by DTG13

Carefully followed the pdf. install instructions. At lilo -v I get error: messageWarning: /etc/lilo.conf should be writable only for root
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Fatal: creat /boot/map~: Read-only file system. Googled and tried many changes . . . need correction for this error.

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Me Too :(
Thanks to help us

tis a perfect install, cheers!

Just wanted to drop a huge Thank You to PureHate and all rest who put all the work into the install guide. It simply rocks. Up and running in less than a half an hour. Smooth as can be... great job...

Thanks
Doublewood