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#1 2012-06-20 07:03:42

fran
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Installation will now start. But nothing happens.

Hi. I would give a try to Archbang putting it in a partition on an USB external drive to a PC that has as the main OS Linux Mint 10. I'm trying to install from live. All well until I get to step <installation will now be start. Please patient!>. Despite the waiting, nothing happens.  The installation does not progress. If I press OK, as result I got a failure warning. Where am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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#2 2012-06-20 09:04:52

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Re: Installation will now start. But nothing happens.

Try to prepare empty space  or an ext 4 formatted partition on your external hd.
Do blkid in terminal to know how the external hd is seen by the system and check if the installation is seeing it / point to it.

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#3 2012-06-20 11:54:08

fran
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Re: Installation will now start. But nothing happens.

Thanks for your support. I made as you suggested preparing an ext4 partition beforehand. I chose that and a swap partition too. By blkid I got <live@archbang ~]$ blkid /dev/sdb10: UUID="5f1f9e3d-9db2-42ef-afaf-9780015aacd1" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb19: LABEL="Arch" UUID="995f3f00-971f-4a7b-97e9-7cf8f7280db7" TYPE="ext4">. Unfortunately, at the time of installation of the system this does not start. While experimenting I found as follows in a window <FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 11: enlarged logical partitions overlap. Press any key to exit cfdisk>. It could be the problem?

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#4 2012-06-20 15:14:07

pablokal
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Re: Installation will now start. But nothing happens.

If I remember well having the swap partition on the external HD caused that problem in an earlier support question.
Try to use no swap or swap on the other hard disk and see if that works for you.

Getting your questions answered here at ArchBang Forums
Please! Always give hardware info, if there is a chance that 's relevant: #lspci -vnn
Quote: What I have learnt from Linux is to minimize dependencies and functionalities for greater independence.
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#5 2012-06-21 10:12:45

fran
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Re: Installation will now start. But nothing happens.

<Try to use no swap or swap on the other hard disk and see if that works for you>

I tried both options but unfortunately no luck. The installation does not start. Any other suggestions?

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#6 2012-06-21 13:18:18

pablokal
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Re: Installation will now start. But nothing happens.

I see you have it on a 19th partition. Isn't there a maximum in partitions you can make?
also:

While experimenting I found as follows in a window <FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 11: enlarged logical partitions overlap. Press any key to exit cfdisk>. It could be the problem?

Research your external hard disk in gparted and see if the partitions are alright.
Changing the problematic partition a bit in size (making  it a bit smaller) finish that process and then in a new step  resizing it to its original size may be enough to solve the partition table problem.
see point 3 http://nitinpant.hubpages.com/hub/Repai … tion-Table

Getting your questions answered here at ArchBang Forums
Please! Always give hardware info, if there is a chance that 's relevant: #lspci -vnn
Quote: What I have learnt from Linux is to minimize dependencies and functionalities for greater independence.
On Arch(bang) and Openbox: http://stillstup.blogspot.com/

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#7 2012-06-22 01:42:54

fran
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Re: Installation will now start. But nothing happens.

No way. I wanted also make a comparison with another live Arch (Bridge Linux), but no luck too. To tell the truth installer  seems to be the same. Thanks for your help, I'm afraid I have to raise the white flag.

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