| darkblueb | hi all - installing 'jammy' onto a disk.. not going well !! | 03:10 |
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| darkblueb | the installer runs snapd, an md5checker and some xfce thing.. while reading from the DVD | 03:11 |
| darkblueb | it was 36 minutes and it said it was done.. "finally" I said.. that was about twenty minutes ago | 03:11 |
| darkblueb | I can see that the installer has a partition mounted at /target to write to .. but there is almost nothing there yet! | 03:12 |
| darkblueb | there is some IO mod_probe looking at the USB bus over and over | 03:12 |
| darkblueb | I can see these things in the ordinary terminal .. while the installer window is open.. | 03:13 |
| darkblueb | I am dreading if it breaks into one of the other disks and touches that.. this is a terrible experience, and I am not sure it is even going to complete | 03:13 |
| darkblueb | this is the third install here.. the other two were in a VM with an ISO file mounted, and that worked fine.. also slow | 03:14 |
| darkblueb | this is a DVD, on a box with lots of disks, installing onto a USB external drive.. it doesnt look good right now at 1hour+ and I am fifty percent sure this is not going to complete | 03:14 |
| darkblueb | I noticed the 'Ubuntu Pro license check' and some "auto install service" that is not for me, but it happens | 03:16 |
| darkblueb | right now it is awful, if it destroys one of the disk setups on this box, it will be a disaster for me | 03:16 |
| darkblueb | .. not sure how many hours I should let this run.. | 03:16 |
| arktvrvs | it shouldnt take hours | 03:18 |
| darkblueb | something about the target partition on a USB disk seems to have thrown it badly off track... | 03:20 |
| arktvrvs | in my experience usbs can be fussy. dont like it | 03:21 |
| darkblueb | aye - fail .. I killed it.. after 70+ minutes | 03:26 |
| darkblueb | and I am right, it never wrote to the /target partition | 03:26 |
| darkblueb | there is 36M there only.. | 03:26 |
| darkblueb | at least GRUB is intact on other disks.. I am restarted and the setup is OK | 03:27 |
| darkblueb | nerve-racking | 03:27 |
| arktvrvs | an idea you may try | 03:28 |
| arktvrvs | i have installed DOS onto an sdcard before using qemu | 03:28 |
| arktvrvs | just by pointing the hdd paramater at /dev/whatever | 03:28 |
| arktvrvs | it might be worth a try | 03:28 |
| darkblueb | ? what hdd parameter .. I used the GUI with a DVD | 03:32 |
| arktvrvs | starting qemu from command line (kind of a pain tbh) | 03:32 |
| darkblueb | there is no sdcard reader - this is a dual-xeon server box | 03:33 |
| arktvrvs | might work with usb too | 03:33 |
| darkblueb | booting the installer from a DVD takes ten minutes, just to start | 03:34 |
| arktvrvs | see that doesnt even sound right | 03:35 |
| darkblueb | maybe longer .. I did it 3 times so far, in the last two days | 03:35 |
| darkblueb | I know it! but that is how it is running here | 03:35 |
| darkblueb | I use VirtualBox, and installed with an ISO image file, onto a VM, have not at all been like this | 03:36 |
| darkblueb | I have done that twice so far with jammy, and it all worked | 03:36 |
| darkblueb | this physical DVD on a server box, not at all ... awful | 03:37 |
| darkblueb | I will rest 12 hours and then think of what to do.. I cannot destroy that setup while trying to install | 03:38 |
| arktvrvs | agreed | 03:38 |
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| xu-help78w | hi | 10:46 |
| xu-help78w | is anyone here right now? | 10:47 |
| ansary | hi | 10:57 |
| siix | man. people just have zero patience nowadays | 12:10 |
| darkblueb | more install action coming up -- next, identify and replace a drive on this giant server box, and install that | 13:28 |
| darkblueb | I do not know why this DVD reader is so slow with this boot DVD, but.. twenty minutes and I am now installing | 16:52 |
| darkblueb | note to self - hard disk model numbers are not useful without the serial number too | 16:53 |
| darkblueb | gui installer - I can switch to the disk utility to verifiy partitions of disks.. bad - auto-mounting lots of partitions during the install, makes the GUI open windows.. | 16:54 |
| darkblueb | except -- the mini-terminal shows "scanning bus ... " again.. and nothing is being written to the partition mounted as target | 16:57 |
| darkblueb | minutes are going by.. this is not good.. same behavior as with the external USB3 mode | 16:58 |
| darkblueb | this installer is showing me happy non-cultural faces with a msg to join here, and, the installer is not installing | 16:58 |
| darkblueb | .. I do hear DVD activity, I will wait.. but this is not looking good so far | 16:59 |
| darkblueb | the thing that is common to both attempts, is that I did not format the disk, I said "use an existing partition" | 17:01 |
| darkblueb | this may be flat-out fail-buggy | 17:01 |
| darkblueb | I wonder if there is another way to use this installer disk to install.. | 17:40 |
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