[SOLVED] Can not install from DVD

[PongoMember]

My old Pc, which is a Pentium IV @ 2ghz with 2 gb ram, and plenty of disk space will not boot from a USB drive. Therefore my only hope to install the AntiX 26 is from the DVD image I created. It passed the MD5 checksum, and even the media check during install. The first install crashed at “unable to create ZZRAM” so I made sure not to enable that the second time. However on the second install it got to 97% with final configuration questions then the “tips — getting help” screen appeared with the “next” and “back” buttons grayed out. Only the “close” or “abort” button were available. In the log view it was stuck at the “rsync etc. etc.” There was NO hdd activity for quite a while and the runinit was just a low repeating pattern. I’m 100% sure it was stuck and not just taking a long time to do something. After closing the window and thereby aborting the installation, I was unable to rerun the installation as the hdds were all fubared. I had the main 149 GB hdd set for “/” and a 100 GB partition of the 2nd drive set for “/home”, both with ext4 formats. I am very disappointed, as everything looks so great while in live DVD version. This is Windows XP computer: Gateway 500s. I’m restoring Windows XP (for the second time). 🙁

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antiX 26 Stephen Kapos 5.10.240-antiX.1-486-smp on a Pentium IV @ 2 Ghz and 2 GB of RAM. 2002 Gateway desktop. 140 GB hdd has "/" and 100 GB partition on 2nd drive has "/Home" using IceWM de. Dual booting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on another partition.

[stevesr0Member]

Does antiX 23.2 install from a DVD?

[anticapitalistaForum Admin]

Since the hardware is very old, you could try the command line installer instead.

sudo cli-installer

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[RobinMember]

Pongo wrote:

both with ext4 formats.

Consider this possibly a symptom of lazy init on single core machines. (Have observed similar issues on different syncing tasks, other than installing, myself already) Then the postponed initialisation causes trouble and mimics a stalled execution, while simply this init stuff takes up all available resources. So you might want to try to make sure the lazy init of the freshly created ext4 drives was completed before proceeding with writing/installing something on and syncing to them. Depending on drive sizes this process can take up to some hours.

I found the statement from the kernel log, that this lazy thing won’t interfere with any normal operation, to be only true on multicore machines.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[anti-apXosMember]

Pongo wrote:

The first install crashed at “unable to create ZZRAM” so I made sure not to enable that the second time.

This shouldn’t have been a crash. It’s just an error message, but the installation should be fine. At least that’s been my experience. You can still enable zram post-install using the memory manager in Control Centre.

Pongo wrote:

However on the second install it got to 97% with final configuration questions then the “tips — getting help” screen appeared with the “next” and “back” buttons grayed out. Only the “close” or “abort” button were available. In the log view it was stuck at the “rsync etc. etc.”

This is due to selecting “Save live desktop changes” in the installer. If you haven’t configured anything while running live and just want a fresh install, the best solution is simply not to use that option.

If you do want to use the “Save live desktop changes” option when installing, for the time being you need to delete some files in your home directory first:

rm $HOME/.runit/usersv/rc-local/log/supervise/control $HOME/.runit/usersv/rc-local/log/supervise/ok $HOME/.runit/usersv/rc-local/supervise/control $HOME/.runit/usersv/rc-local/supervise/ok

These files will be re-created when you boot into the new install (assuming you select runit as your init), so no harm done.

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[PongoMember]

Thx everyone that chipped in some ideas! anti-apXos helped a lot. I finally got the DVD to work. I just needed not to do the zzram, or save live desktop, or any other changes. I mostly just booted up the DVD, and went right to install. Everything went fine. I have the 160GB disk for “/” and a 100GB partition on a second hdd for “/home” It’s great on this old PC. I already synced Firefox, and have the printer set up. Sound is working, but I’ll have time to get everything setup eventually.

antiX 26 Stephen Kapos 5.10.240-antiX.1-486-smp on a Pentium IV @ 2 Ghz and 2 GB of RAM. 2002 Gateway desktop. 140 GB hdd has "/" and 100 GB partition on 2nd drive has "/Home" using IceWM de. Dual booting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on another partition.

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