Installer dies at past 90%

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Installer dies at past 90%

Post by mnth »

When trying to install Daryna the installer dies when it is almost finished: when doing some hardware stuff at the end it disappears, leaving the machine running but the installation is unfinished.
- leaves directory icons like /target/home and /target/boot etc on the desktop, the MBR is not written so attempting to boot goes to the previous boot menu.

- The machine is a dual-core Athlon64, with 4 GB RAM, ran Mint 3.1 and Ubuntu 7.10 with no trouble.

Any ideas on what to do? Is there some log showing what went wrong?

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Re: Installer dies at past 90%

Post by beechtree »

Is this a laptop? Daryna does not like to complete an installation if the wireless is switched 'on' during the install.
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Re: Installer dies at past 90%

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- not a laptop: a desktop machine with no wireless hardware.
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Re: Installer dies at past 90%

Post by merlwiz79 »

I have a desktop with wireless that's always on an it has always installed fine.
It could be a bad burn or a dirty cd.

Check the md5sum of the cd and iso.
~.xsessions and maybe a log in /var/log may have some info on why it died.
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