LMDE installer freezes during install

[Aaron Mathewson]

I have tried to install LMDE from a USB drive using default settings, but the install would freeze after beginning file transfer

I used the universal USB installer from pendrivelinux.com to create the USB

I downloaded the ISO from the University of Tennessee link

I was able to get it to install by un-checking the option to install grub with the install on the final page. Is there any other workaround I should have used? Or is this the best way?

[Aaron Mathewson (comprodigy)]

after formatting the drive to ext4 file sys several times I got grub to install with the rest of the files

[Ikey Doherty (ikey)]

Hi, thank you for reporting this issue!

We actually made the ISO compatible with
unetbootin so you may have more luck there.

Unfortunately it looks like this bug report
has not been attended to in quite some time.
In order to establish whether this is a valid
bug or not we will need a response from yourself
indicating that the error is still present today
and reproducable (i.e. not fixed)

Thank you

[Christopher Eugene Stith (cstith)]

The LMDE installer from December 2010 pauses for a long time at "Copying bin/mv" for me. This is the live DVD, from a DVD. 64-bit Gnome. I've killed it twice thinking it was completely frozen, but a friend told me his did the same thing and eventually completed. I'm attempting to install now, and it has been there for at least ten minutes.

I had no problems with the more recent XFCE 32-bit on my laptop. Then again I left that installation mostly unattended so if it did pause and recover I probably wouldn't have noticed.

[Christopher Eugene Stith (cstith)]

I rebooted and tried again, and failed. I tried it with no grub installation as Aaron reported and it failed. I cut all power to the system for 15 seconds, edited the boot order to force a hard-drive boot, saw a GRUB installed (that error out of course because there was no kernel to boot to), set the boot order back to optical first, booted back into the live DVD, selected for no GRUB installation, and it proceeded to copy files fine.

This is an AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition with four cores of the Deneb family. It's on an ECS (Eilitegroup) A790GXM AM3 Black Series motherboard with 4 GB of Crucial Ballistix 6ns RAM (512 MB of which is used for the onboard Radeon HD 3300 video at the moment). The hard drive is a Seagate 7200.11 250 GB with multiple partitions in AHCI mode. The optical drive is a Lite-On 22x or 24x dual-layer DVD (no Blu-Ray) SATA in AHCI but I forget the exact model.

I think I messed up the control conditions... I may have not told it to do a fresh swap format of the swap space this time, and I did before. That may turn out to be the important difference.

[Christopher Eugene Stith (cstith)]

After the successful installation without grub (and messing around trying to install grub manually and deciding to try the installer again), an installation with grub worked. The installer required me to format / again even though I had just installed LMDE to it, but that's only a minor annoyance. It could be fixed with a flag file on / which get removed upon first boot after installation, though.

[Laurent Dufrechou (laurent-dufrechou)]

I've tried Linux Mint LMDE December 2010 and ran in same issue.
I've identified the exact issue in my case:
I've put linux mint on an usb stick and boot on it.
I've plugged-in another usb hard-disk where I wanted to put my mint install.
Launching the installer and selecting a partition on the usb hard-disk and then running the install was ALWAYS failing randomly (depending on ram cache size).
I found running on console that the issue was that usb hard-disk partition was ever mounted when I plugged it and installer could not format it. It was continuing trying to install but failed to copy file (and then freezed) because the mount command on /target was failing.

I killed everything, unmounted the usb hard-disk partition before launching installer and everything ran flawlessly.

Perhaps my bug is related to other people bug?

Regards,
Laurent

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