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#43572
USB installer, stuck on "Install Starting" 10 Months, 2 Weeks ago  
Hi!

I'm trying to install ClearOS 5.0 SP1 from a USB stick.

I used dd to image the bootdisk.img from my Mac. As you can see from the topic, obviously the installation then starts on my PC.

I do however get a message before it gets stuck, I can't quote it, but it said something about a looping partition table, and my drive needed to be formatted?

Anyway, I did choose to format the drive, since I don't care about its data anyway.
The formatting process goes well, and the next second I'm stuck with this "Install Starting" - I've waited 45 minutes, which should account for "several minutes", yes?

I turn power off, and on again. Suddenly my USB stick seems corrupted. So back to my Mac with it, and I get a message that I have to reformat the drive.

Ive tried formatting it as both FAT and ExFat - same thing happened both times. I dont know if I should choose one of the Mac formatting options instead?

I'm pretty green with this stuff. So please feel free to dumb stuff down for me

Its a regular PC, Core2Duo if I'm not mistaken, with one integrated NIC, and one Intel Pro.
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#43573
Re:USB installer, stuck on "Install Starting" 10 Months, 2 Weeks ago  
Hi Johan,

I can't help but i also tried to install Clear from usb stick. I failed

I know that USB installation is on the roadmap and on the wish list. Oh and you vote for this feature. 6 votes maximum!

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#43575
Re:USB installer, stuck on "Install Starting" 10 Months, 2 Weeks ago  
That's not the kind of reply I wanted!
I dont have a CDROM device in that computer! ... Actually, I dont have it in any of my PCs. Ive never really understood what people need them for... until now.

I guess I could try to get PXE booting working again... meh.

EDIT: While I'm at it, and instead of creating a new topic:

I had 5.0 on my old server. Can I restore its configuration file into 6.whatever.it.is.now if I miracoulsly get PXE booting working?
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Re:USB installer, stuck on "Install Starting" 10 Months, 2 Weeks ago  
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Re:USB installer, stuck on "Install Starting" 10 Months, 2 Weeks ago  
If that works, I will be eternally grateful!
I'll give it a shot immediately when I get home.

I did try and mess around with PXE last night. And I think my TFTP server went fine. However my PC didn't get any DHCP offers. Maybe It doesn't work with simply a switch.

I then tried a router...until I realized I had turned it into an access point and disabled DHCP on it....I said some well chosen words, and went to bed.

EDIT:
So, I borrowed a CD reader from work, burnt my CD and the installation started fine.

I decided to try raid, since that's new for me. I followed the guide on this site for partitioning, and immediately got an error when rebooting, something about mdadm(?) and error 127. A quick google said that it's a known bug with exr4, so I ran the installer again, and formatted as ext3 instead - and while the same error message occured, atleast the system booted up.

Somehow I then managed to get my NICs backwards, so I think I was trying to act as DHCP for my ISP there a while... woopsie

After realizing that, my initial configuration was up and running, and I can type this again from my regular internet connection... yay!

First impressions on the 6.2 release (I know nothing about under the hood kinf of stuff):

SLOW! The web gui is alot slower than when I ran 5.x

I opened a command line thingy on the server, and the average load was 10.5ish, and went red every now and then, maybe that's why stuff is being slow for me.
Internet connection itself is good though, I get my 95/88 Mb/s, which I suppose must be ok for my 100/100 connection.

The initial setup was a bit weird. I'd like to remember stuff to work out of the box last time, however that could be my mistake, for mixing up my NICs.

I do like the new app-like layout. It made selecting and installing apps very easy!

Thats it for me, good night!
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