Installer Weirdness

[Member Sliver X]

I did a clean install of antiX 19.1 yesterday, and am pretty impressed so far (It uses less RAM and just feels “snappier” than 17.4.1 did).

However, I ran into some issues with installation that I wanted to bring up.

I downloaded the Base ISO and found it only had a CLI installation process. I downloaded Full and it was the same. I typically wouldn’t mind, except it also causes the following:

The CLI installer is unable to install / to any of my NVME drive’s partitions. It shows them, but trying, say, nvme0n1p2 fails with an “Invalid Partition” error. I remember this also happening when I attempted to install 17.4.1 Core a few months back. I was able to work around it by installing to an external HDD, dumping its partitions with fsarchiver then loading them onto the NVME drive but that was a hack, basically. Is there something I’m missing regarding NVME installation?

Aside from this, I’m loving 19.1: Very impressive, and turning out to be an amazing base for emulation and PC gaming.

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[Moderator caprea]

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Sliver X wrote:

I downloaded the Base ISO and found it only had a CLI installation process. I downloaded Full and it was the same

This should not be the case. Both, base and full version, should provide the gui-installer.Look for antix-installer.

The cli-installer is kept simple. AFAIK it doesn’t offer support for NVME drives, only for normal hard-drives included normal ssd’s.

[Member fatmac]

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I have installed to a (modified) chromebook, using GPT partitioning & UEFI, maybe try that(?).

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[Member manyroads]

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I can say that the antiX installers do not function on my i5-gen10 Intel pc (they work predictably on my older units). @stevo on MX has built a new MX spin that seems to function well. For now, antiX is uninstallable (by me, a mere mortal) on my new i5-gen10 gear.

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[Member Sliver X]

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This should not be the case. Both, base and full version, should provide the gui-installer.Look for antix-installer.

Xorg itself never loads during the boot process. I didn’t think to try startx manually, though? FYI, if it matters, I made both install sticks with the built in Live USB creation tool in antiX 17.4.1

I have installed to a (modified) chromebook, using GPT partitioning & UEFI, maybe try that(?).

I still use MBR partitioning on all my disks. Will see if GTP makes a difference.

I can say that the antiX installers do not function on my i5-gen10 Intel pc (they work predictably on my older units). @stevo on MX has built a new MX spin that seems to function well. For now, antiX is uninstallable (by me, a mere mortal) on my new i5-gen10 gear.

I run a Ryzen 2600, so also a fairly recent CPU/chipset. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

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