Fresh install on existing partition [Solved]

[msdobrescu]

I didn't have UEFI either on this particular computer.
For my level, the Sabayon 6 installer was easier...

[Stupot]

I actually used Arch for a while on my laptop. Their documentation is great, as is their AUR. However, I had system breakages from just doing standard upgrades (unable to boot DE, unable to mount encrypted root). Asking about those breakages on their forums generally yielded a hostile response. I don't disagree that Sabayon's installer could use attention (like stated, the switch back to Calamares for all DEs will be a very good thing), but I've found the maintenance of keeping a Sabayon system up to date with less breakages to be much easier.

Obviously this is just my experience and opinion, and I am very experienced* with Sabayon at this point.

*Man, I've been on these forums for over a decade!

[msdobrescu]

Indeed, Sabayon has a great capacity of recovery and it is so easy and reliable to upgrade!
Still, I'd like it to be more flexible regarding the packages, although I understand the Gentoo dependency.

[Ryuno-Ki]

After trying again and again, I have come to the conclusion it is impossible. The graphical install tool doesn't work like in the wiki anymore.
The text one won't start at all, remaining in a blinking prompt mode forever. Great!

Sorry for the troubles. For administrative reasons we are currently locked out of our wiki :shock:

This should be simpler.

For a wide range of hardware it is simpler. Maybe you just happened to have an unlucky combination :-/

Asking about those breakages on their forums generally yielded a hostile response.

The tone of some community members can be a bit ... tough here at times, too. But I consider it not as hostile as Gentoo's (at least in the circles I had contact with).

I'm trying hard to not let it get hostile here. But sometimes people just don't get "jokes". Keep that in mind, to not take everything literally!

I don't disagree that Sabayon's installer could use attention (like stated, the switch back to Calamares for all DEs will be a very good thing), but I've found the maintenance of keeping a Sabayon system up to date with less breakages to be much easier.

Thank you!

*Man, I've been on these forums for over a decade!

You're getting old :-D

[Ryuno-Ki]

Indeed, Sabayon has a great capacity of recovery and it is so easy and reliable to upgrade!
Still, I'd like it to be more flexible regarding the packages, although I understand the Gentoo dependency.

Well, you actually have a great flexibility by falling back to Gentoo.

Maybe better to contact optiz0r first, to get certain packages offered in SCR, though (use Bugzilla for that, please)

[msdobrescu]

Yes, I know. But now I have run into other weird problem.
I did a full update and upgrade, using the sabayonlinux.org repo (the only one activated at the moment).
And I have rebooted it. From then, I get:

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invalid filesystem encoding ANSI_X3.4-1968, must be UTF-8.

What is that??

[Ryuno-Ki]

Please open another thread, because this one is marked as solve and hence will get less attention.

[msdobrescu]

Already done here.