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volumetricsteve

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4

install hangup : won't see my partitions

Hey everyone,

I was following through the slitaz installer documentation yesterday and hit a wall when I got to the part where it wants you to pick a target to install slitaz to.  It just says "not found" in the drop down box where you'd pick the target partition.  I partitioned...I think in the right way (this is coming from a few years of linux/solaris experience) There wasn't much in the documentation about what partitions it needs, so I tried a few things - none of which worked. 

Of a 250-ish GB drive, I first tried making the whole thing one big partition just to see if that would work, no luck.  Then I wondered if this was more akin to other distros where you have to carve out your swap and home partitions manually, so I ended up with a 4GB root partition, a 2GB swap partition and a 4GB home partition...just to see if i could get things moving, still no luck.

The drive shows up in GParted and reflects all of the changes I committed to the partition table.  I should point out that the documentation doesn't say how you should partition your drive (or if it does, it's cleverly hidden)  so given the options of partition tables, I picked gpt since all of the other options seemed to make less sense.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: install hangup : won't see my partitions

The installer use UUID to identify partitions. The root and optional /home have to be formatted with a filesystem to get a UUID assigned.

volumetricsteve

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4

Re: install hangup : won't see my partitions

I made my root and home partitions EXT3, shouldn't that have worked?  Thanks for the reply

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: install hangup : won't see my partitions

Open terminal,su to root

[c]tazinst list[/c]

Check uuid and partition_table sections

If they're blank maybe the installer doesn't support GPT or some other problem.

volumetricsteve

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4

Re: install hangup : won't see my partitions

I was wondering about the GPT thing, but if it doesn't support GPT, what would it support?  Thanks again

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: install hangup : won't see my partitions

The old partition standard is msdos.

Tazinst does recognize GPT partition.

I have 3 drives on my computer.

The new drive is partitioned with GPT.

tazinst recognizes them all and they're listed in the Install Slitaz to partition: dropdown menu

[c]root@slitaz:/home/tux # tazinst list partition_table[/c]

/dev/hda: msdos

/dev/sda: msdos

/dev/sdb: gpt

[c]root@slitaz:/home/tux # tazinst list uuid[/c]

UUID=B448CFA148CF612A /dev/hda1

UUID=5cf837ce-ac54-42dd-aedc-55db100f6dae /dev/sda10

UUID=a8e637df-7449-45f9-a58e-ad72f7e9d885 /dev/sda11

UUID=22ca079c-f9d0-4763-96e1-f1c3fe7ca4b8 /dev/sda12

UUID=3914e738-2cf5-40ba-a521-9b12a8c34a12 /dev/sda13

UUID=0ed374af-e4c8-4d01-b812-45035d737e48 /dev/sda14

UUID=689664c8-0fab-46d0-aa79-86bcfc0eca89 /dev/sda15

UUID=5A176222539721FD /dev/sda16

UUID=7f0d387d-0034-4c16-86f0-a31fcdc047ad /dev/sda1

UUID=79c8d602-6368-48c9-b020-7245d8cd77ef /dev/sda2

UUID=C2C8569BC8568D93 /dev/sda3

UUID=9EC44368C443422F /dev/sda5

UUID=b873b98d-580e-4383-8a67-cdbc3073c056 /dev/sda6

UUID=fe396aec-321e-4705-bd9a-35af1a37578a /dev/sda7

UUID=aa38a7e6-4421-4ca1-af70-c9e7da7b57a2 /dev/sda8

UUID=e3f6e0ba-f4aa-42c1-93fb-1543f0c7887c /dev/sda9

UUID=f782be57-3880-4e0a-85ad-4db47ed4d852 /dev/sdb1

UUID=cab55b12-9295-4c16-ad5f-83680d0c7994 /dev/sdb2