Comments on: The new Anaconda installer

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:39:39 +0000

Did you run verify and boot? Was that successful? Certainly seems like a bad burn to usb, but can’t say for sure without verify test.

-c

By: jg

jg — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:59 +0000

dd-ed and the rest. Exactly the same result as before. The blue bar moves along around 25%, and the message says Installing Software 100%, and it hangs there. I’ll give it one last go with a disc later.

By: jg

jg — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:07:26 +0000

Would it not be simpler to burn it to a DVD disc? I used Unetbootin. But if the USB is the problem, I might as well go with the disk. It’s a desktop PC rather than, say, a netbook, so I do have the option.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:42:55 +0000

Sorry to hear about the problems With USB drives, I’ve never had much luck other than to dd to the full drive (not a partition) e.g. sdx not sdx1. Like so:

dd if=korora.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4M && sync

Can you give that a try if you didn’t do it that way last time?

Also, at the boot menu of the live disk there is an advanced menu which lets you do a “verify and boot”, can you try this too after you do a new dd?

Let me know how you go!

By: jg

jg — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:15:56 +0000

I tried 6 times to install (the Gnome edition of) Korora on my machine last night, but the installer bar got part-way along, claimed 100% had been installed, and then hanged. Assuming that this might have to do with the known issue to do with reading swap from my disk, I went so far as to delete my swap partition, but still no luck. I’ve been trying to think of workaround, but I’m struggling. It’s a shame because I really liked the look of the Live version. I was installing from a USB stick if that makes any difference.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:34:12 +0000

Interesting that the screen for setting the root password was used as an example for wasted screen space. The new installer has just about the same screen for setting the root password. Same wasted screen space.

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:20:47 +0000

Hey Steven,
Good point, and the partitioning section is some of the changes that I linked to in the post, so it’s getting better!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:19:25 +0000

Thanks Pat, good to know!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:18:13 +0000

They had to be approved