I see a typo in my email, it should be 8g instead of 8gb.  The typo was only in my email.  I should note the research machine I'm doing this on is an AMD fx-8350 with 16gb of RAM total.  Oddly enough, I was able to follow the same steps on an old X61 thinkpad laptop, and it works fine (only 2gb RAM)

On Apr 21, 2016 10:30 PM, <mvanroy@bellsouth.net> wrote:

I don't know if this has anything to do with password, but:

tmpfs: Bad value '8gb' for mount option 'size'






On Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:31 PM, Steve Volumetric <volumetricsteve@gmail.com> wrote:


I apologize if this is the wrong place for this, but I'm trying to understand an issue I'm running into.

For educational purposes, I'm trying to install Crux 3.2 onto a ramdisk, naturally I know everything will disappear upon reboot, but I'm not worried about that - i'm just trying to see what can be done.

Going from the Official Crux 3.2 install guide, I go through all the same steps I generally follow, except to establish /mnt I do:

mount -t tmpfs -o size=8gb tmpfs /mnt

I can run the setup, I can setup-chroot, but I can't passwd

when I do passwd, it immediately tells me:

Changing password for root
Enter the new password (minimum of 5 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
Bad password: too short.
Warning: weak password (enter it again to use it anyway)
passwd: password changed.


but I don't even have a chance to type anything, it just does all of that at once.

When I look in /etc/passwd  I can see a line for root, but no password, unsurprisingly.  

could the problem be in tmpfs?  I'm not sure what's really different here.
Thank you.

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