Installing alongside other OS, so I set up partitions manually, selecting the root partition, formatting to btrfs, setting mount point to “/”, selecting efi partition, editing to set mount point to “/boot/efi” but keep content.
Buggy installer or something funny about my hardware or the way I’m trying to set up? I didn’t have a problem with the old Cassini installer, installing to a USB stick, letting it format the whole device.
there is a similar issue at me…
the installer is freezing (at about 35% done the install without any displayed error) ever when try the online install.??
so I do the offline mode and everything is ok
pacstrap: error: failed retrieving file ‘gcc-libs-12.2.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst’ from mirror.puzzle.ch : Failure writing output to destination
I selected btrfs. I can try ext4.
With previous ISO, installs to USB stick worked fine. At least one of those was btrfs.
3 A different OS to a partition (Garuda Wayfire, also btrfs) works fine.
I’ll try updating mirrors, but “Failure writing output to destination” sounds like a local problem. And the fact it worked in a VM, but not just afterward to a partition or a full 128MB USB stick makes me doubt that. But maybe it selected different mirrors.
As far as manual partitioning, I am using the same partitions each time, only choosing reformat root to be sure to clear out previous partial install, and this is on a brand-new device that works for other things (including the Garuda install) so not likely it’s failing already.
I can try the offline install as a test, but it’s not how I want it long-term.
Success. Modified modules/pacstrap/main.py (I think under /usr/lib/calamares but I’ve rebooted and am not sure) and removed the “-c” option from the pacstrap command.
I suspect that option (use host cache) should have only been used for the offline install, where files are in the iso, but not the online install, where latest versions are downloaded fresh?
Anyway, it got me “unstuck” and I will leave it to the devs to fix it the right way.
BTW this is on a Chromebook with 4GB RAM so it might have worked when tested on a machine with enough ram to download all the packages. (I’m only testing OSs on the Chromebook for a PC I’m building, that one will have 64GB.)
Not sure, though, why the online install worked in a VM, which I’d been giving 2GB.