It ALWAYS gets stuck at 102238/225940 of the image unpacking process.
I have a current rolling Sparky Live USB that is loading up but then upon attempting to install to the HDD from the live environment with calamares or advanced it just gets stuck after creating the partitions and attempting to write the live image to the HDD. This machine's less than a year old, the video card less than a month. I tried turning on/off a bunch of legacy crap in my bios, I don't know why it won't keep going.Īlso you meant /boot/efi for FAT32 not /EFI/Boot right? The USB Flashes the whole install till it gets to that point then just the Tower LEDs blink and the USB no longer flashes its red light. It lays out and formats the partitions super fast then when it comes to unpacking/writing the live image it freezes up at above mentioned point. Advanced installer hung for a whole day, Calamares overnight. Internet not connected during install either. I also tried the above partition scheme adding the 8mb unformatted grub_bios it tells me GPT partitions require. There's a setting in my bios for OS's can set it to Win 8/10 or "Other OSs" I've tried it both ways. does the swap partition even need the swap flag? Do other partitions require certain flags? Oh yeah I also disabled my AMD 5500 XT and am installing via onboard video as Debian installer was not having it.Ĭode forced that esp flag on the fat32 partition.
What am I doing wrong? Can someone lay out how to partition the drive? I don't want a dual boot I'm just installing Sparky WIN 10 is gone dont want it. Oh yeah I also had a ton of issues with debian installer not recognizing my CD-ROM mid install. The HDD is a Seagate 2TB 5400rpm I believe. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-GAMING 5 board. Is it stuck should I reboot and try again?
So now I'm running the advanced installer it started up fine, time was set correctly, but it has been running a good 3+hrs to setup on 2TB hdd. No matter what partition setups I tried the installer would spit out new contridictory "Jobs" to install Sparky. It also asked me in other attempts to setup an unformatted 8MB grub partition. No matter how I set them up or let the installer set them up it would install to a point and give me errors with "Jobs" of partitions to make. The issue I kept having with Calamares installer was the partitions. But now my live USB Sparky GameOver is booting and loading. Did that Debian installed, but will not boot. Such as installing Debian(Buster) in it's entirety cause Sparky install attempt said kernal was missing. So I'll save you all the initial issues I had first. Have been thinking of switching forever anyways. Also my first dive into the world of Linux since Win 7 support is ending.