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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I'm all but certain I got the /dev mount line right, but I won't know until I can get to my research machine again for another..nearly 18 hours. You'd of course be right about /etc/passed and /etc/shadow, I almost never deal with user accounts and thus confused what I was looking at. Good catch. I'm glad I got it working on my thinkpad though, that at least dispels my theory it was somehow tmpfs related. I MUST have done something wrong in my setup on the big machine... Thanks for the replies On Apr 21, 2016 10:59 PM, "Alan Mizrahi" <alan+crux@mizrahi.com.ve> wrote:

On 2016-04-22 08:31, Steve Volumetric 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.

You probably skipped this command from the install guide:

mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev

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

...

unsurprisingly.

Unsurprising indeed, since the password should be in /etc/shadow ;)

Regards,

Alan