How to install Solus, when hard-disk has size with 4 TB ?

DirtyAngel

I refer to Solus installation image, which allows installation only with :
a) dos-partition table (works only up to 1 TB)
b) when hard-disk is formatted with FAT32.

How do I install Solus, when I wish GPT-partition-table and when I wish
to install onto hard-disk with 2 TB or with 4 TB (with LUKS-encryption) ?
( ... and when hard-disk is formatted with ext4 ... ? )

Is there a trick to achieve this ?

brent

make all 4TB's GPT. (or 2TB disk).
then make a 100GB partition of ext4.
install solus in that partition.
I would personally take that 100GB and make my partitions: 1GB fat32 formatted boot drive with flags set.
then an ext4, 90GB root drive. Make swap for 10GB.
Then force solus into the existing partitions during install. Letting Solus (or any distro) run free on 4TB cause problems because of the size, I've read. Cannot furnish links--just something I remember.

Don't know nothing about LUKS. Long story short: install Solus in a partition, don't give it all 4TB.
2 cents

DirtyAngel

brent +++ Thank You for hints.
In the meantime gparted got fixed. So it was easier then to Install budgie. Installation onto harddisk went smooth.
But login into desktop does not work. Budgie has cut my password. At installation password size is over 300 chars.
Budgie cut it to 128 chars ? Suddenly in login of Budgie desktop I cannot continue password to end ?
Installation was only possible online ?
Offline installation did not work.

WetGeek

DirtyAngel At installation password size is over 300 chars.

I can't imagine a password (or passphrase) that long, but probably neither could the developer. Are you shooting for security that would take a government agency 5 billion years to crack?

I have a similar, yet different, issue. My wife insists on using the name of her favorite cat (now deceased), which is only 5 characters. Since only she and I have physical access to her laptop, and she's an Alzheimer's patient whose only installed apps are three solitaire games, I don't argue about it. But when I install Solus Plasma, the installer tells me it's too short and won't continue.

The solution is simple, though. I simply add a couple of characters to the password during installation, then afterwards I use the passwd command in a terminal to change it to what she wants (and can remember). There doesn't seem to be such strict rules from the command line as the installer uses.

Is is possible that you could use a simpler password to get your system installed, and then use the passwd command from a command line to change it to the one you prefer to use?

brent

DirtyAngel
Glad the hints worked. Happy that you are up and running!
And lastly I'm glad the installer was able to be led to the partitions you made for the install. Sometimes that is not always the case. Sometimes it wants another partition or prefers to take the free space instead of the spaces you made for it.

It's weird you did a UEFI install (or did you?) and GRUB was involved. Like @WetGeek , I avoid Grub like the plague.

AlphaElwedritsch

DirtyAngel password size is over 300 chars

I think that is extremely exaggerated

DirtyAngel

WetGeek +++ Hello WetGeek, dont worry, I had such passwords already in 2012/2013. Because I wanted to defend myself against crackers from extremely right-wing in Hamburg ... He still is trying up to today to crack me and is trying this already for over ten years. (Boozing and stalking as repeat-offender cracker.)
But Back to Solus. I tried next Installation with GNOME - ISO. It went smooth too onto SSD in Orico USB - Case with size 4TB. But grub is booting into grub as Loop, because in notebook ist previously installed GNOME Solus too.
notebook ist Acer aspire 17 with two hard-disks.
I was thinking of USB hard-disk for emergency case.
It worked in earlier Versions ?

WetGeek

DirtyAngel But grub is booting into grub as Loop, because in notebook ist previously installed GNOME Solus too.

I'm sorry to say, I don't use grub, and never was very familiar with it. I hope someone with more knowledge of the subject will read your message and offer some help.

I do know that if you use a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters (%&*,etc) that's a length of 12, it could take years for experts to crack it. There was an article about that posted here not long ago. That's why I made the comment about your 300-character password. But you have a right to use such a password if it makes you feel more secure.

Here is a useful tool from BitWarden that will estimate how long it would take to crack any password.

DirtyAngel

You need to do this :

update-grub2
Or :
sudo update-grub2

WetGeek

AlphaElwedritsch I think that is extremely exaggerated

I'm pretty sure we're being trolled for attention. A well-formed password of less than 18 characters takes centuries to crack, according to bitwarden.