Thanks for the additional information.
I managed to replicate this freezing of RaspiOS once only, but when I repeated it, it installed fine. This is very odd, but you've given me some clues that need further investigation.
I would avoid using Gparted with multi-boot as it often changes the disk identifier when resizing partitions, which can cause problems with PARTUUID references.
The Data Partition would have been formatted as ext4 according to its metafiles. Of course you can create your own data partition metafiles that use a different format, or just reformat the partition as exfat from RaspiOS or Ubuntu using mkfs. You should be able to set the size in PINN's installation dialog. But of course, if something is going wrong with the size calculation, this might be a problem. If you leave a few MB, PINN will still allocate this extra space (in theory!). There is a `provision` cmdline option that can be used to reserve some space at the end of the disk. Maybe try this option to provision a few MB? See https://github.com/procount/pinn/blob/m ... ne-options
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. At the moment I have no control over which server mirror is chosen, but they have provided an API so I can at least see which mirrors are available. In the future I hope to use this to switch servers when the download speed is unacceptably slow.
In the meantime, if you identify the folder where the OS is stored, you can download it manually from a PC where you can select a mirror manually, and store the files in a folder under /os on a USB stick. PINN can then install the OS from the USB stick. There is a download feature within PINN to do this for you, but again the mirrors are not selectable.
I managed to replicate this freezing of RaspiOS once only, but when I repeated it, it installed fine. This is very odd, but you've given me some clues that need further investigation.
I would avoid using Gparted with multi-boot as it often changes the disk identifier when resizing partitions, which can cause problems with PARTUUID references.
The Data Partition would have been formatted as ext4 according to its metafiles. Of course you can create your own data partition metafiles that use a different format, or just reformat the partition as exfat from RaspiOS or Ubuntu using mkfs. You should be able to set the size in PINN's installation dialog. But of course, if something is going wrong with the size calculation, this might be a problem. If you leave a few MB, PINN will still allocate this extra space (in theory!). There is a `provision` cmdline option that can be used to reserve some space at the end of the disk. Maybe try this option to provision a few MB? See https://github.com/procount/pinn/blob/m ... ne-options
That is surprising. But rather than start all over, why not just remove that parameter from cmdline.txt? You could always enable SSH before trying such changes in future, then you can get into PINN and edit the file remotely from another computer.But the video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60D made the screen go black. Have to start all over.
Yes, I often experience this myself. Most of the OSes are stored on Sourceforge which is great because it's Content Delivery Network has many mirrors around the world so in theory it should pick a mirror closest to you geographically to give you a quicker download. Unfortunately, some of their servers are very slow - I guess this is the price you pay for having free storageBut an annoying issue is when the downloads of the OS'es starts, the initiation of the download decides the download speed. Several times I had to shut it down because it states the download time takes XXX hours, 0-0,1MB sec. This happens several times and are totally random. This attempt takes about 1 hour.
. At the moment I have no control over which server mirror is chosen, but they have provided an API so I can at least see which mirrors are available. In the future I hope to use this to switch servers when the download speed is unacceptably slow.In the meantime, if you identify the folder where the OS is stored, you can download it manually from a PC where you can select a mirror manually, and store the files in a folder under /os on a USB stick. PINN can then install the OS from the USB stick. There is a download feature within PINN to do this for you, but again the mirrors are not selectable.
Statistics: Posted by procount — Sat May 31, 2025 11:32 pm