I'm having a lot of trouble installing Mageia 8 on an old Toshiba laptop (Satellite P105-S6024, released 2006) after upgrading the original harddrive to a Seagate Barracuda SSD (ZA250CM10002). The harddrive connection is SATA I. I tried to follow these instructions. Thinking that DrakX can't handle SSD's, I booted System Rescue CD, launched GParted, and created a 1 MiB boot partition in ext4 format, and then other partitions (40 GiB /, 4 GiB swap, 150 GiB /home, some unallocated space for overprovisioning).
Then I booted the classical 32-bit ISO, told it to use the partitions as found and when installing encountered an error while unpacking the kernel, twice, so thinking it was an error on the DVD, I burned and booted the NetInstall media, only to bump into the same error at the same package. I looked the log and it shows some cpio problem unpacking the kernel to the boot partition. Booting into GParted again shows that the partition is full. Was it too small?
I should add that the SSD already had an MBR, as I had first installed Toshiba's original Express Media Player, which is actually a sort of Linux media player that created its own 300 MiB sda4 primary partition at the end of the drive. This laptop has a special media key that, when pressed, boots this old stripped down Linux system to play CD's and DVD's without booting the main OS. I'd like to keep this partition.
So my questions are:
- Can DrakX installer correctly handle SSDs by now? Is that page outdated?
- What size should the boot partition be, and what format? Should it be mounted?
- How can I repair it and finish the installation without repeating the whole process?
- Is it possible to install Mageia 8 while keeping Express Media Player available?