installer not installing (literally)

[soft vigil]

Hi, that ISO is an older one, can you get the latest one from https://vanillaos.org/download/orchid/stable (I am currently experimenting with a CI that would upload the latest ISO to the release assets).

[delicate reef]

It says insufficient space. What size is your install media?

[shut jackal]

Can you delete partitions from another live boot image?

Or cgdisk

I'd guess one place is GB and others is GiB

[delicate reef]

Your usb?

So just to make 100% sure now. You’re booting the installer from the external ssd correct?

[shut jackal]

I would just recommend ventoy at this point man. Feels like sacrilege to use a whole drive for one iso

Easy 2 boot if you are feeling adventurous

[delicate reef]

He’s using ventoy

[delicate reef]

What size is the installer then

The usb drive containing the installer

[delicate reef]

What brand is the usb drive and where did you buy it

[shut jackal]

Lol what's going on!

Are you casually corrupting disk sectors?

[delicate reef]

That's what I'm trying to figure out lol

Or I thought fake drives might have been a possibility

[delicate reef]

Give me like 3 hours and I’ll have an answer about your install media anyway. Not in front of my pc rn

[finite dagger]

I'm having the same issue on my Samsung T7! Maybe it's an issue with this SSD specifically?

yeah I thought it was an issue because I was trying to dual boot but even after resetting the drive it gives me the same error

real

[soft solstice]

I have the same issue, but my ssd not samsung, i install in onto a 128gb sandisk ssd in a ssd enclosure. I tried to extend the ‘vos-root’ partition using partition wizard. But it still give the same error

32gb sandisk usb

i use balena etcher to flash the iso into usb...

[finite dagger]

what device?

a usb stick

uhh some random one i found laying around

im sure it works because i was able to install it on my laptop's nvme just fine

i think i know the issue, it could be a rounding error with the lvcreate command thats running, like mentioned on this page: https://serverfault.com/questions/733407/insufficient-free-space-x-extents-needed-but-only-y-available

here's the issue page: https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/Albius/issues/73

but this is way out of my scope and im not really sure

same

😭

[finite dagger]

I DID IT

I FIXED IT

well

its a jank fix

but its easy

• install git with sudo apt install git
• clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/vanilla-installer
• enter the vanilla-installer folder with cd vanilla-installer and open the processor file with nano vanilla_installer/utils/processor.py
• edit line 364 in the __gen_manual_partition_steps function from thin_size = (values["size"] / 1_048_576) - 1024 - 512 - 1028 to thin_size = (values["size"] / 1_048_576) - 1024 - 512 - 1068 (this gives enough extents/space to be able to convert the partition)
• exit and save
• install meson with sudo apt install meson
• build and install the program with meson build, ninja -C build, and ninja -C build install
• run the program with vanilla-installer and everything should work

let me know if this works for you

[tawdry needle]

you should probably post this fix as a PR on their git page

or if you want i can do that for you and i will credit you

this is a simple enough fix im just gonna do the PR lol

here's the PR https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/vanilla-installer/pull/421

[finite dagger]

nah its not a good enough fix

still dont know what causes the issue

idk if you figured it out but you open settings and theres an 'apps' tab where you can open the terminal from

theres also probably a keyboard shortcut but thats how i do it