Live distro that uses ext4

dfhhsthtrjnb · 01-17-2021, 08:32 AM

I'm using OSX and I want to try BitKey.io but it doesn't boot on Mac so I need to customise it via

https://github.com/bitkey/bitkey/issues/31

But Ubuntu isn't being detected by OSX Fuse or extFS for Mac so I guess it can't be using ext...?

Can you recommend any distro that still uses ext2 or 3?

ondoho · 01-17-2021, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dfhhsthtrjnb

I'm using OSX and I want to try BitKey.io but it doesn't boot on Mac so I need to customise it via

https://github.com/bitkey/bitkey/issues/31

But Ubuntu isn't being detected by OSX Fuse or extFS for Mac so I guess it can't be using ext...?

Can you recommend any distro that still uses ext2 or 3?

This post doesn't make any sense to me.
The issue you linked is titled "won't boot on Macbook".
I have no idea what this has to do with Linux or ext2/3/4.
Please explain the problem, provide more information.

To answer your question: I guess that any distro could be installed to an ext2/3 partition, but it totally escapes me how that could help you.

dfhhsthtrjnb · 01-17-2021, 11:27 PM

I can't read any of the bootable live USB drives I'm making from isos.

So I've installed Ubuntu now. Now I'm able to read the sdcard USB bootable drives from a USB adapter and also from the Mac sdcard slot.... but I can't write to it and

mount -o remount,rw /medis/sdcard

Doesn't work. It says it's a read-only filesystem... and yet I just burnt the iso to the same sdcard in the same position... ??

ondoho · 01-18-2021, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dfhhsthtrjnb

Doesn't work. It says it's a read-only filesystem... and yet I just burnt the iso to the same sdcard in the same position... ??

Correct, you "burned" a read-only filesystem to your SD-card.

You still haven't expained what you're actually trying to achieve, along with some information about this bitkey thingimajick. This is beginning to sound like an XY-problem to me.

fatmac · 01-18-2021, 04:36 AM

If you image/burn a .iso file to a pendrive, you have really just placed a CD/DVD onto it, it doesn't have an ext file system, it has an ISO9960 file system.

If you boot from that pendrive you will be using an ext file system, but you won't be able to write to it because it is still that .iso image, which is read but not write.

If you were to install the system on that pendrive to another drive, you would then have an ext filesystem on the second pendrive.

dfhhsthtrjnb · 01-18-2021, 05:41 AM

Ah! Great thank you. I forgot about that. I couldn't remember how to determine the filesystem. It's so obvious now. The instruction from that link threw me off