[20:00] <furicle> I'm trying to do a manual, bare metal install from the 20.04.2 iso.    I get a series of messages about cloud-init, but the installer never starts, and there is no log in session on and of the Control-F2, etc etc.    I've tried two different computers, and both 20.04.1 as well as 20.04.2
[20:00] <furicle> What am I missing?  I've read the install guide and it just says "After a few moments, you should see messages like those shown below on the screen…
[20:02] <teward> furicle: have you verified the ISO you were using is valid first?
[20:02] <teward> not loading up usually suggests there might be a problem with the ISO and it's not complete.
[20:04] <furicle> Checksums match?   And it did the same thing with both the 20.04.1 and the 20.04.2 iso.
[20:06] <furicle> Note I haven't installed Ubuntu/Debian for years (I'm more of a CentOS guy) so this cloud-init thing is new to me,  but... it boots, it does this cloud-init stuff, and I gather then it's supposed to start the installer, and it never does.
[20:07] <teward> if your system's got issues with networking it might spin for a bit before loading.  server ISOs us a new installer, subiquity, and have cloud-init as the initial configuration mechanism.
[20:07] <teward> and i had issues with one of those spinning a bit if network autoconfig doesn't work.
[20:09] <furicle> So it *has* to have a working DHCP connection to install?
[20:10] <furicle> On both machines it seems to recognize the ethernet card, but not bring it up.
[20:11] <furicle> How long is 'a bit' ?
[20:37] <furicle> Thanks for reading all, guess I'll have to come at this a different way.
[20:43] <Ussat> I install 20.04.X all the time in VM's at work and have never had that issue, granted, I do servers
[20:43] <Ussat> but I do not think it requires a dhcp connection
[20:44] <Ussat> if it does thats just stupid