Quote from: fatmac on May 22, 2013, 02:48:38 PM
Not quite sure if this will be relevant to your problem.
Being a first timer to VSIDO, I found problems with the installer.
What I did was open a tty, sudo su to root, run fdisk /dev/sda, deleted all partitions, created a new empty dos partition label, created new partitions, wrote them out to disk, went back to X & re ran the installer, & it worked for me. (May21 64bit)
Yes, that would work. What you actually did, was to delete all partition, and converted your disk to dos instead of gpt. The problem is that the installer doesn`t recognice partitions on a gpt-disk. It`s a issue of remastersys. The developer wouldn`t support gpt and/or EFI, because he personally didn`t see any need for it. He thought that it was something that would blow over, instead of becoming the new inddustry-standard like it without a doubt is turning out to be.
Anyway, If I wanted to start from scratch again, I could blank my harddrive, convert it to ms-dos, create all the partitions I would like to have, and then install VSIDO. No problems with that. My issue is that I`m going to install VSIDO into a SSD where I`m already running 3 other distros on GPT. It`s not possible to mix gpt and dos-partitions on the same disk, so therefore I have no way of installing VSIDO into my system as it is.
I could convert to dos, and use only dos-partitions and bios-boot, and that way I would be able to run all my distros on the same hdd. But I feel it gets totally wrong to change all my other distros to use old technology, just to be able to install VSIDO. Especially when VSIDO is based on Sid, and therefore should be able to use all the newest standards.
But it`s not a VSIDO issue. If Vastone gets the Debian-installer to work with VSIDO, then the problem is solved, and VSIDO will become the cutting-edge distro that it is in all other regards..... Then it also will be possible to install VSIDO without a swap partition, and it will be possible to set mount-points for existing partitions during install. Everything will automatically fall in place with the Debian-installer. Then VSIDO will be able to do a native uefi/gpt install ootb...
But personally I like best the installer that Crunchbang and lots of other Debian-distros use. It`s perfect... Easy and flexible..., even though it can not do a uefi-install ootb. I could live with the Crunchbang installer in VSIDO. LInux-bbq is another distro that`s very smooth to install. Maybe Vastone could check with machinebacon how he does it, because linux-bbq is very easy to take snapshots of and create new iso-images, kind of like with remastersys, but bbq has no issue with gpt or any swap requirements, because they use the easiest and best installer that exists.