[10:05] <nop> hey
[10:05] <nop> just tried to install 20.04.1 LTS on a ryzen workstation... installer crashed
[10:06] <nop> was trying to manually partition a ssd and hdd
[10:09] <nop> a 1tb NVME ssd with 650 mb EFI partition, 32 gb swap, rest / (ext4)
[10:11] <nop> we have a pretty intrusive firewall, could that be the reason?
[10:13] <gnrp> nop: What does it mean, the installer crahsed? What happened?
[10:13] <gnrp> did you try again already?
[10:15] <nop> i'm just trying again
[10:15] <nop> the GUI installer literally said that it crashed
[10:15] <nop> i'm just trying again with 1. safe graphics 2. not formatting / mounting the hdd 3. no 3rd party drivers
[10:16] <gnrp> the firewall should not cause the installer to crash
[10:16] <nop> now it worked
[10:16] <gnrp> and a 1tb nvme ssd should not make any trouble either
[10:16] <gnrp> ok, good^^
[10:16] <nop> i had specified a mount point of /mnt/d for the hdd
[10:16] <gnrp> the usual "have you tried turning it off and on again" works apparently^^
[10:16] <nop> is that a problem? because the usual mountpoints are all in root
[10:17] <nop> gnrp: that shouldn't be acceptable on linux tho
[10:17] <gnrp> if it is not root, why should that be a problem?
[10:17] <nop> idk maybe it fails to create the directory
[10:17] <gnrp> nop: Why not acceptable? We are talking about systems with millions of lines of code. Stuff crashes all the time
[10:18] <nop> on a production linux system nothing should be crashing
[10:18] <gnrp> I don't know if the installer does it. If not, your system will probably refuse to boot and you have to create the mount point
[10:18] <nop> e.g. a server
[10:18] <nop> the mount is not necessary its just a scratch disk
[10:18]  * gnrp tries to remember a server he had that never crashed. Nope, empty list...
[10:19] <gnrp> nop: Doesn't matter if it is necessary, it depends on how it is entered in fstab. If it is marked as auto and the mount fails, the boot will fail
[10:19] <nop> oh ok
[10:19] <gnrp> the system does not know whether it is necessary, it just sees it fails
[10:20] <gnrp> if you want to make that user-controlled, don't specify a mountpoint and you can do it via thunar. Then it will be mounted in /media/$username, though
[10:20] <nop> for the very latest nvidia driver i still need to download the installer from nvidia right?
[10:20] <nop> na, i will enter it in fstab later
[10:22] <gnrp> nop: There are the nvidia driver packages, if you enabled using the non-free repositories
[10:23] <gnrp> the package nvidia-current is what you arel ooking for