LiveCD install stuck at 0% - after setting root password

wrythe · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Seattle, WA

I'm a current Slackware user and am very interested in installing Gentoo. The problem is that I'm limited to the LiveCD for a networkless install since my wireless card is not natively supported.

I've tried to install on two different machines and both do the same thing, so I'm pretty sure that I must be doing something wrong. I go into the GLI, answer all the questions, choose a minimal amount of GRPs, then click "install." I usually get a line or two of output saying that the root password was successfully set but then it doesn't do anything else; no harddrive or cd-rom activity whatsoever. I even left it for a few hours one time, but still to no avail.

Has anyone else experienced this, or am I just an idiot?

Thanks in advance.

cyrillic · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: LiveCD install stuck at 0%

wrythe · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Seattle, WA

Kronoz · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

I had the same problem even though i had a working net connection!
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jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: Re: LiveCD install stuck at 0%

sankarv · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

I am too facing such a problem.

My system is AMD 2600 64 bit sempron with ASUS motherboard.

I tried to install from the Gentoo live CD 2006 thorugh the graphical installer offline. I setup default packages and tried to install stage3 , after setting root password its showing

"Working...
Preparing..."

at the bottom.

Even after 1 hour no progress is shown

whats actually the status is it installing?

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: LiveCD install stuck at 0%

sankarv,

I'll just put on bold the answer from cyrillic. :wink:

t00l · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Derbyshire, UK

Ironically I experienced the same problem yesterday with the LiveCD. I just used the command line installer and made sure that I selected real installer rather than simulate. Also saving your profile (xml) might have something to do with it, just make sure you save it, I did /etc/installprofile.xml off the topic of my head. Good Luck

ps, Hey everybody, Im new to Gentoo, im finding the performance great so far (Hits outdated Debian on the head for its outdated packages for Desktop/Laptop support)

wackman2k1 · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 45

That fix didn't work for me. I tried that last night.

Actually, I had to tell the installer that my net connection was set up just to get past the network configuration screen. If I tried to set it static, it would tell me that one or more network devices wasn't configured yet. So clicking on "my network connection is already setup" got me past that. Then it freezes on the white (log) screen where it says the root password was set and the livecd password was set, but no further. I even let it go overnight with no progress.

I'm using the amd64 installcd.
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jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:57 am Post subject:

wackman2k1,

please look at this post. Does it solve your issue?
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wackman2k1 · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 45

Well, I haven't tried the command line, console installer. I've been wating for years for the gui installer and I'm a little disappointed I haven't been able to use any version of it since it came out. I'm going to try the command line one now.
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wackman2k1 · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 45

The console installer wouldn't work for me either. I chose the safest settings I could. I decided to have it download GRPs (I think) so it wouldn't have to worry about compiling anything (or very little, at least). The installer crashed halfway through.

So I decided to just use the minimal CD. Now, I finally have a gentoo install. I'm having some trouble with that now, but that's for another thread.
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codecx · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2006 Posts: 14 Location: Toronto, ON

I'm not sure if this will help or not, but I've spent a good 4 days installing this trial/error and I've done it successfully in commandline(with the help of the 80pg manual)

so I'm tried the GUI out once more. (I'm a sucker for pain)

In the FAQ, there is a command to update the installer:

* open a terminal
* /opt/installer/misc/updategtkfe

The speed is remarkably faster, the stability is noticable. Anyone who has not read the FAQ or tried this method should definately check it out. I have an AMD64-3200+ with 2gb RAM, it took less than 15 minutes for my system to compile (No extras yet.. I'm going to emerge the X11 etc stuff by commandline.)

Oh and one other thing..Just incase you DO get the failed startup still, save your setup profile before you hit that 'install' button. It'll save you a great deal of mouseclicks when you try again.

infoseeker · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 25 Location: South Africa

I have the install CD. I would *somehow* like to *extract* the stage3 tarball from this CD.
Would this be possible?
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renrutal · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:34 am Post subject:

The /opt/installer/misc/updateglid method is working for me.

turtles · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject: works

I had the same problem with using the live cd GUI installer (first time user of GUI for install done 2 installs prior years). I couldent get the live cd to set up the cheap wireless card (air link awcl3026) I guess it needs the nis wrapper? after install, I tried the networkless install off cd but got stuck at the update root password, pluged into the net and dhcpcd (use terminal oh so handy) brought up the network card right away, this time did the stage three down load and appears to be going well.
This cd finds everything on a toshiba satalight 2.6ghz laptop amazing!
thank you
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polski · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

I have the same problem.

I am using the LiveDvd. During gentoo boot my network card gets
detected and everything seems to be Ok, once gentoo is booted the
network doesn't always work.

When installing via the GLI it just stops on the preparation of stages.
Sometimes the progress bar reaches 100 % but the messagebox
window does not close and there it stays. I once left it for 4 hrs
with no change.

What seems to be causing this? I know I am trying to install the correct
version, that is the correct distro for my system.

I would prefer to install from the LiveDVD
as I am still a linux layman.

Thanks for any help and sorry for the long post.

alug · n00b Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 1 Location: BELGIUM

Stops on the installer after partitioning and assigning /boot and /home to another partition than root.
When you say DONE he tries to mount the partitions and fails console and gtk+ version.

Urgent solution required because I am stuck now. Anyone in the area of Antwerp?
Also in the documentation read dhcpcd -HD ethx must be dhcpcd ethx and no parameter at all for nameserver and gateway to recieve. -HD is not supported anymore as it is default.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: LiveCD install stuck at 0%