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#1 2019-02-20 03:45:38

sofia-m
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Registered: 2019-02-15
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installer does not find usb drive

Hello,

after installing Slitaz a few days ago, I decided to install it a second time on a spare partition to play with it and cook and so on.

However, just like the first time, the installer does not find my usb (sdb1).

On the pull down menu, it only shows sdb but, if I select it, it complains the drive was not found.

I ended up copying the .iso from the HD to the live Cd home and installing with the from .iso option.

However, I'm curious about this issue, so perhaps someone could enlighten me.

Also, I was curious about the justx version, so I tried to install that too.

This time, when the iso image appears on the terminal in green (which I assume means it is selected) and I continue the process, it says the image was not found.

Small hitches in an otherwise amazing distro.

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#2 2019-02-22 21:17:04

Ceel
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Registered: 2011-04-02
Posts: 1,424

Re: installer does not find usb drive

Hello sofia-m,

the installer does not find my usb (sdb1).

On the pull down menu, it only shows sdb but, if I select it, it complains the drive was not found.

I don't exactly understand what you mean. Does the installer (in TazPanel?) display in the down menu only [c]/dev/sdb[/c] and not [c]/dev/sdb1[/c]? Can you do a screenshot?

What type of formatting did you use for your USB disk and how GParted see it?

Can you post the result of [c]fdisk -l[/c]?

@ devs

In my SliTaz rolling (updated), in TazPanel, Installation > Install SliTaz > Execute Gparted button has no effect ??

GParted from Applications > System Tools > GParted Partition Editor works.

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#3 2019-02-23 07:28:20

sofia-m
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Registered: 2019-02-15
Posts: 75

Re: installer does not find usb drive

Hello Ceel,

first I tried to install Slitaz from the panel. When i get to the step of choosing the medium from which install, i can only choose SDB (error-1.png) whereas the USB stick I have SliTaz on is /dev/sdb1.

I also tried tazweb-installer from the terminal.

There i get first the right USB identification (error-2.png) but then I get an error message (error-3.png).

As for the fdisk and blkid output they are:

tux@slitaz:~$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 112 GB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors

14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device  Boot StartCHS    EndCHS        StartLBA     EndLBA    Sectors  Size Id Type

/dev/sda1    0,32,33     1023,254,63       2048  123391999  123389952 58.8G 83 Linux

/dev/sda2    1023,254,63 1023,254,63  232556544  234440703    1884160  920M 82 Linux swap

/dev/sda3    1023,254,63 1023,254,63  123394046  232556543  109162498 52.0G  5 Extended

/dev/sda5    1023,254,63 1023,254,63  123394048  181196799   57802752 27.5G 83 Linux

/dev/sda6    1023,254,63 1023,254,63  205268992  218220163   12951172 6323M 83 Linux

/dev/sda7 *  1023,254,63 1023,254,63  218222592  232556543   14333952 6999M 83 Linux

/dev/sda8    1023,254,63 1023,254,63  191494144  205266943   13772800 6725M 83 Linux

/dev/sda9    1023,254,63 1023,254,63  181198848  191492095   10293248 5026M 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT

Disk /dev/sdb: 7835648 sectors, 3826M

Logical sector size: 512

Disk identifier (GUID): 9d3c5541-bef4-86d3-d033-dc655988137d

Partition table holds up to 4 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 100318

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size Name

     1             172           98923 48.2M EFI System Partition

tux@slitaz:~$ blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="960aecfc-2797-4379-8895-cb590f158f10" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0008e06f-01"

/dev/sda2: UUID="1b91e4a1-0880-41f1-a16e-24cdf108544b" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="0008e06f-02"

/dev/sda5: UUID="530f962f-43da-44f4-9a17-fda06222a5a5" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0008e06f-05"

/dev/sda6: UUID="ab484718-79ee-4d9a-a5f4-77a6e153e6d1" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0008e06f-06"

/dev/sda7: UUID="38c47051-73bd-47e5-a8dd-afe501a9f50e" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0008e06f-07"

/dev/sda8: UUID="569dde3a-78d1-46eb-9e20-0c27dae2a827" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0008e06f-08"

/dev/sda9: UUID="9ab90db0-d58a-47a6-8fe6-d9a8a23a5029" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0008e06f-09"

/dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="SLITAZ BOOT" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="3e9abf8b-9fda-4ee2-fd85-59b30409a0c7"

I burned the .iso image on the USB stick with dd as usual, so I assume the reading should be fine.

Copying the .iso on the home dir of the live CD and choosing install from .iso on the installer menu worked just fine.

I hope it helps.

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#4 2019-02-23 15:58:21

Ceel
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Re: installer does not find usb drive

Hi sofia_-m,

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT

Here is your problem. Use a msdos part system and the installer will see your partitions on the stick.

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#5 2019-02-23 17:56:17

sofia-m
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Registered: 2019-02-15
Posts: 75

Re: installer does not find usb drive

Hi Ceel,

Thanks a lot for clearing this up.

Will make next install even easier.

The more I use SliTaz the more I like it.

Looking forward to next release.

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