Happy new year, fellow Qubers! Well, I'm not really a Quber --not yet-- but maybe you can help me join your ranks.
I went out and bought a Dell Inspiron 5593 --a shiny new laptop with an i7-1065G7*-- for the express purpose of installing Qubes on it, but found out during BIOS setup that the CPU simply doesn't support legacy boot. This may or may not be relevant to my problem installing via USB: Using 4.0.2-rc3, I managed to get all the way to actual installation after battling several major issues (like m.2 not appearing), but it seems like I've hit a brick wall. Installation freezes/fails during installation, but where and how varied among all attempts. *Attempt 1: *Slowly set a root password and username during installation. Cursor freezes during the end of setting these, but the keyboard stayed alive. Tabbed and entered my way back out, only to be greeted with a prompt saying that the installation encountered a fatal error: "DNF error: Error unpacking rpm package webkitgtk4.2.18.3-1.fc25.X86_64". (9xx/1025, I think). Keyboard still useable. Hard reset. *Attempt 2:* Quickly set passwords. Cursor still alive when done. 7xx/1025, cursor freezes, but keyboard remained alive. Kept tabbing to verify that keyboard was still alive. 9xx/1025, installation stalls but the pinwheel (?) kept spinning and keyboard was still alive. Waited twenty minutes--no joy. Hard reset. *Attempt 3:* Didn't set any passwords as an experiment. Walked away, and came back to a completely frozen installation. (Early installation; no number). Hard reset. *Attempt 4: *Quickly set passwords. Kept wiggling cursor to find out when it freezes. Observed increasing cursor lag starting at 804/1025. Cursor and pinwheel freezes at 808/1025. Dead keyboard. Dead installation. Hurt feelings. Hard liquor. Hard reset. *Attempt 5:* Didn't set any passwords. Cursor lag 815/1025. Cursor frozen at 834/1025. A wild fatal error appeared: "DNF error: Error unpacking rpm package kbg-2.0.3-3.fc24.x86_64". Keyboard alive. *Attempt 6:* Booted from the ANACONDA partition. Quickly set passwords. Cursor lag at 826/1025. Cursor frozen at 830/1025, pinwheel spinning. A wild fatal error appeared: "DNF error: Error unpacking rpm package mesa-dri-drivers-17.05-3.fc25.x86_64". Keyboard alive. Pride, barely. Not sure what's going on here or how to resolve this, so I'd appreciate any ideas. **Since I wanted hardware-level Spectre mitigation* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/94e988dd-c0e3-4370-b644-e38b74e3e8ba%40googlegroups.com.
