Re: [9front] Free Carrots #5: MNT Reform

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On July 17, 2022 9:56:24 PM EDT, william@thinktankworkspaces.com wrote:
>Yes I made sure to unzip the archive which is obvious. I also made sure
>to rename the image to 9fron.iso
>
>I can cat the image to the sd drive and it boots up with 1.2G fs with 
>30G of unclaimed space or empty partition. Not sure how to reclaim that 
>extra space. 
>
>so inst/start was the plan to try to reclain that space but 
>after it does mountfs I run into the following
>
>Preparing menu...% mount /srv/9660.dist /n/dist /n/distmedia///9front.iso
>mount: mount /n/dist: unknown format
>% mount /srv/dos /n/distmedia /dev/sdU7b1211/dos
>% mount /srv/9660.dist /n/dist /n/distmedia///9front.iso
>mount: mount /n/dist: unknown format
>
>This is an uncompressed image. 
>
>I also just tried to build the iso from scratch but ran into other issues. 
>
> mk /tmp/9fron.arm64.iso
>mk: don't know how to make '/tmp/9fron.arm64.iso' in directory /sys/lib/dist
>
>Next is to skip mountfs and go to copydist. I think I will need to make some modifcations
> to /rc/bin/inst/copydist to get it working. But then I got a bit lost with 
>
>disk/mkfs -z 16372 -U -s /n/dist /n/newfs /sys/lib/sysconfig/proto/allproto
>
>I guess bind the system root to /n/dist then try to run it or do something different
>
>not sure of the proto. I read it might be better to run 
>
>disk/mkfs -a -s dist proto > arch but I think I got an error on that
>
>
>
>
>Quoth james palmer <james@biobuf.link>:
>> On 17 July 2022 04:23:01 BST, william@thinktankworkspaces.com wrote:
>> >I gave up and cat 9front-c5cf9b3e26033272c5f57b9a860c335e63786045.reform.img.gz > /dev/sdU7b121/data
>> 
>> that is a gzip archive,
>> surely you want to unzip it first? try:
>> 
>> gunzip <9front-c5cf9b3e26033272c5f57b9a860c335e63786045.reform.img.gz >/dev/sdU7b121/data
>> 
>> - james
>> 
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>

you can't expand the size of the sdcard .img, no matter how big your sdcard is. the purpose of running the installer is to install the operating system onto a separate device (nvme, usb, whatever). in the end you'll be booting the kernel from 9fat on the sdcard .img and the root file system from the other device. booting the kernel from anything besides sdcard requires more work nobody had done yet.

sl