installing 2.7 problem
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- 4 years 3 months ago
- 2013-11-01
Today I tried installation of Apline 2.7 on my home server.
First I ran setup-alpine (sys installation type) to the point where installer asks to erase the disk. Since I wanted my own partition scheme I answered "No", mounted my root partition on /mnt, and ran setup-disk -v /mnt. Setup-disk never finished. It printed messages about root-device and filesystem, and boot device and filesystem (ext4) and nothing more.
From other terminal I checked /mnt mount point and notices that /etc folder was created and several files and folders in it, but after that command df -h always showed same occupied space (around 10Mb).
I have followed this installation routine successfully many times on virtual machines in Virtual box but on real hardware it failed.
Just tried 2.7 x86 in virtual but it wont even boot.
The problem was old version of VirtualBox(4.1.18). I have installed newer version 4.3 and Alpine booted successfully.