Some successes, some hiccups

[GroovinBuddha]

Hello everyone,

So far I’m pretty thrilled with the possibilities that berryboot could offer and serious props to whoever wrote it. I’ve been working at creating some of my own images after initial experimentation with some of the pre-made ones.

I decided to run a test with raspios as there was a bunch of them already made and I figured it must therefore be possible. I loaded a fresh vanilla Debian onto a Craigslist Lenovo desktop and got to work.

I had previously downloaded the images I wanted to work with to a shared folder on my main desktop, which is a Mac. I was able to transfer them to the Debian machine without incident where I started the conversation process.

Raspios seemed to convert pretty well once I got past some unrelated permissions stuff. I then copied the file to a Fat32 USB stick and was able to load it and boot it with no problem. Yay me!

Now for the experiments and results:

Can I use an Ext4 formatted usb stick to install the same image on berryboot? Everything seems to work exactly the same, but it never boots and just boots to a recovery prompt Reason for Ext4? I’m currently converting a 480GB RetroPi image which even compressed is going to be ever-so-slightly larger than Fat32’s maximum 4GB file size. Has anyone done something similar?

Second experiment: Servers

Both Fedora Server and Ubuntu Server seem to crap out right at the beginning of the conversion process. I wish I could be more specific at the moment, but my wife is in an on-line course right now so I’m typing this on my iPad from the bedroom. If anyone wishes, I can provide any specifics you request (as soon as I can get back in front of my computer)

Thanks in advance GB

PS I see there is a way to install images from a Windows server, but is there any way to install from a Samba share?

[owl770]

@GroovinBuddha - berryboot supports installing from a CIFS share (or do you require true smb support)? https://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot/local_repository_on_network_share Currently berryboot only support nfs and cifs for network installs.

[GroovinBuddha]

Owl770,

I think smb would be an amazing feature. As far as I can tell it is the only protocol that is freely shareable between Windows Linux BSD and Mac. I'm sure there a lot of homelabbers out there setting up NAS boxes with smb, so I think others would find it very useful too. As for me, it should also solve that whole Fat32 size limit thing. Cheers. GB.