Yes, you read right, but it is not relevant.Thanks procount. I read that you use fat32 for the drive format. You cannot have a file over 4 GB in size with Fat32. Can ext4 be used?
A drive is split into partitions to make it more manageable. Each partition can be formatted differently.
The RPi can only boot from a FAT partition, so every OS will have a FAT boot partition and typically one or more other partitions formatted in different ways.
PINN is effectively just another boot partition, so it has to be FAT format. But it is only 128MB in size so you won't get a 4GB file on it anyway.
If you are installing PINN by copying the contents of the zip file, then you will need to format the drive as FAT32, or more specifically create a partition on the drive and format that partition as FAT32. Some formatters will create the partition transparently for you.
The partition does not need to cover the whole drive, although it is sometimes easier to do that. It must be large enough to hold PINN, so at least 128MB is recommended. When PINN Is installed, it will shrink the first partition to its smallest size, leaving the rest of the drive available for the installation of other OSes. They will create partitions of ext4, btrfs, or whatever for your data. So there is no need to worry.
(Be aware that PINN uses the MBR partitioning scheme, so this limits the maximum size of the disk that PINN is on to 2TB. It does not prevent other larger drives using GPT being attached, though.)
Statistics: Posted by procount — Sat Jun 15, 2024 10:27 am