Some quirk's both Pre and Post install...

[bstill]

Hello Everyone!

I successfully installed Bridge Linux(686 XFCE) yesterday, after some frustration. Cfdisk works good for basic partitioning, it's a bit aged for making an encrypted LVM, for first or second time partitioner's it's pretty strait forward.

The quirk I found was with mounting partitions part of the install. While I don't prefer this layout, the first mounted partition HAS to be swap, the second partition HAS to be root, then the following partitions can be mounted as the user wishes, home, var, log, etc. Any variation form this layout and you get a message about having duplicate partitions. Even if your first partition is NOT marked as swap area(82), the installer will mark it as swap and not use an ext* format. This makes it a difficult install if your not used to having a pre formatted partition mounting order.

I'm not a linux vet, but this isn't my first install either and if there is a document or guide I'm missing on the requirements of formatting and mounting partition's when installing Linux, can you please put a link up for people to read on installing Bridge Linux.

Or is this just a glitch in the install process?

After the o/s was installed it went through the update software install process which is nice and very strait forward. However there seems to be a new release of pacman that needs to be updated before anything else.

When I type "sudo packer -Syu" I get..

: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
    pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] Y
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: udev will be installed before its util-linux dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gcc: requires gcc-libs=4.6.3-1
Installation failed.

Nothing will install until this new pacman is installed. I'm not familiar with Arch, other than staying it's install is very Slackware-ish. Is there a repo I have to manually add that will have the libs needed for installing the "new" pacman?

Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[ludvick]

First do:

sudo pacman -S pacman

and then

sudo packer -Syu

(there is some packages from AUR which are used in Bridge Linux).

An illustrated guide how to install Bridge is here: http://millertechnologies.net/forum/index.php?topic=49.0
I know it's in Turkish, but pictures speak international language. There is no differences in installing 2012.2 and 2012.4 versions of Bridge Linux.
I'm currently working on an English and Polish guides, so if you can wait, I'll publish them soon.

[bstill]

The command "sudo pacman -S pacman" worked like a charm. Thank You!

As far as the partitioning, using those pictures as a guide would have saved me some headache in installing, perhaps a sticky note saying Bridge Linux can only be formatted using one pre-formatted partition layout with links to the pictures would help the new installers.

If i want my partition layout as follows..

sda1 "unused or used by another operating system"
sda2 /boot
sda3 /var
sda5 "Extended partition or LVM"
sda6 /home
sda7 /
sda8 /log
sda9 swap

Bridge Linux does not seem allow this type of setup, in Bridge Linux sda2 has to be swap, and sda3 has to be root, which greatly limits the ability to configure partitions Linux.

 My question is this, is the installer supposed to be limited or is this a glitch in one of the install scripts?

Thanks again.

[ludvick]

I really don't know answer for your question, thus on my computer I have only one system (Bridge, of course) and my partitions are set as:

sda1 - /
sda2 - swap
sda3 - Extended
          sda5 - /home
          sda6 - /home/ludvick/Muzyka <- this partition is for my music collection

As you can see, there is no "/boot" - I use ext4 filesystem on sda1, so it's not required (kernel recognizes this filesystem).

What do you need so many partitions for?

If you make big "/" partition there will be plenty of space in "/var"...

[bstill]

So far I'm liking Bridge, once I got around the partitioning.

Yes my layout of partitions was an example of what you can't do with Bridge Linux, I personally don't have my partitions set that way. The point I was making is that sda1 can be anything but "/" and sda2 can be anything but "swap". When you have sda1 as an "unused by Bridge Linux" partition, and sda2 is what you want as "/" or another linux partition, this opens the door for frustration when installing Bridge Linux, especially for people that have a windoze or another linux operating system installed.

Also when making an encrypted or non-encrypted LVM a primary "/boot" is required, mounted apart from the LVM containing "/".

Regards

[Ninja-1]

Attached is a screenshot of a setup using sda1 as / and sda2 as swap.

[bstill]

Thank you for the reply however the screen shot is not needed. Having sda1 as "/" and sda2 as "swap" is not in debate. The fact that those first two partitions can be nothing else is.

Try...

sda1 /boot 600mb (Primary)
sda5 Extended (or LVM-(8E))
sda6 /var
sda7 /home
sda8 /log
sda9 swap

The only reason I posted this was so people can realize that Bridge Linux can only use one layout for the first two partitions.

Other than that I found it to be a very nice operating system.

[Ninja-1]

Sorry, I've been busy building LFS for a while. Here's a screenshot of a setup similar to the one you posted, I still don't see the problem.