I am once again, in a semi state of panic and is in need of your help

so i wanted to reinstall my system (to use xfce instead of kde since my low spec laptop is struggling) and downloaded the latest(?) link from the mirror (singapore). booted up ventoy and selected the iso. now this shows up

i have no idea what to do, could someone guide me how to fix this?

Is this from the live usb or did you reinstall ?

it is a reinstall. i have other iso as well (such as cachyos) i’ve tried selecting cachy but it provided the same error

It looks like you need to update your Ventoy stick. In the meantime you can probably get through the installation by using grub2 mode.

the old eos iso boots up the live environment but it fails to install package manager

any idea how to update ventoy? sorry if it’s a dumb/obvious question. i just wanna make sure.

EDIT: selected grub2 and currently in the live iso environment

I was recollecting how I switched between KDE and XFCE in the same install. Since you reinstalled already that’s not an option.

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Just run the installation script against your Ventoy stick. It will recognize you already have Ventoy on there and offer to update it for you. https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html

Make backups of course, but it does keep all your ISOs on there when you upgrade and only takes a few minutes.

Glad to hear it, you can mark the solution if you wish.

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currently installing… will update in a few minutes i guess

UPDATE: “installation failed package manager error”

what to do?

cant mark the solution yet, as i have a new problem XD

That is a separate, unrelated issue which will have a separate, unrelated solution. :wink:

Post the installation log so we can see what is happening.

should i make a separate topic?

In general that is a good practice (separate topics for separate issues), but in this case I don’t think it is a big deal either way. Let’s take a look at the installation log.

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i’ll try to update my ventoy version first, in the meantime, is the pic i previously sent different from the installation log?

2 cents: have installed endeavour 4 times. could not install from ventoy all 4 times. could only install from an etcher-burned USB stick. one man’s saga, anyway

my install of endeavourOS (before kinda borking it with my intention of a reinstall) was made successful by ventoy… i could be running out of luck but who knows

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If you can get to the live environment with grub2 mode, that should be fine to install with.

The log has a lot more information than that. The picture only shows the error it failed on.

Click “yes” (on the button in your picture) to send the log to a pastebin, then add the link to the discussion here.

I have had success with it what feels like 100 times…but like you say, I have heard it just doesn’t work sometimes. I have had it fail with an out-of-date version of Ventoy, but my suspicion is there is more to it than that. I’m honestly not sure why it doesn’t work for some folks.

i’ll take note of that, internet is slow(updating ventoy on another slow pc) so it’ll be a while after i can get to paste the logs here…

absolutely could even be the health of the particular warhorse USB which get worn down quite easily and not built for the heavy lifting of this business. that’s probably the case more often than not.