Re: Trouble Installing Ubuntu 22.04 from USB Stick
It seemed to work. After wiping out the lvm with gparted, the installation went forward as expected. There should be a log somewhere or terminal session that shows error message from the installer. Thanks! Mark On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 4:31 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > On 2022-07-20 14:56, Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > I have an older System 76 laptop running 18.04 in a lvm across 2 > > disks (1 TB and 2 TB). > > > > I downloaded 22.04 desktop iso, verified it, installed it on a USB > > drive [...] When I try to install it, I get as far as the 5th screen, > > Installation Type, where I select the 1 TB drive and hit continue. > > Nothing happens after that. I had selected normal installation, > > download updates, and erase disk. [...] > > > > Could this have anything to do with the lvm currently installed > > across the two drives? Should I go into the "try" part of the USB > > drive, open gparted, and reformat the two internal drives, then start > > the installation again? > > This is what I'd try. Some part of the installer is probably scanning > for stuff, getting confused by seeing this LVM setup, and refusing to > erase the partition table and/or LVM metadata. If nothing else, you can > then test your "restore all non-OS data from backups" procedure this > way, which is always a useful thing to do. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Trouble Installing Ubuntu 22.04 from USB Stick
On 2022-07-20 14:56, Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss wrote: I have an older System 76 laptop running 18.04 in a lvm across 2 disks (1 TB and 2 TB). I downloaded 22.04 desktop iso, verified it, installed it on a USB drive [...] When I try to install it, I get as far as the 5th screen, Installation Type, where I select the 1 TB drive and hit continue. Nothing happens after that. I had selected normal installation, download updates, and erase disk. [...] Could this have anything to do with the lvm currently installed across the two drives? Should I go into the "try" part of the USB drive, open gparted, and reformat the two internal drives, then start the installation again? This is what I'd try. Some part of the installer is probably scanning for stuff, getting confused by seeing this LVM setup, and refusing to erase the partition table and/or LVM metadata. If nothing else, you can then test your "restore all non-OS data from backups" procedure this way, which is always a useful thing to do. -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Need help speeding up a backup
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
It turns out I bought a HDD and not a SSD for the backup. Once I replaced
the HDD with a SSD, the backup only took a couple of hours.
Mark
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 7:16 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Mark,
> This sounds a lot like you are on a USB 2.0 enabled port. It’s that or
> there is something a bit off about your external drive that you are backing
> up to. I have had recent experience with so-called cheap external backup
> devices, including a 1 TB external SSD and several external 1 and 2 TB
> external Hdd’s. In the case of the external SSD, it turned out to be a fake
> unit with the controller reprogrammed to emulate a 1 tB drive. It was so
> slow that formatting it took 9 days and it failed on verification. I ended
> up having to use several open source windows tools (yeah, windows, UGH! But
> that was what was available) and determined that the SSD was fake. I let
> the provider know that he might be in for trouble once I explained the
> situation.
>
> Btw, what is the brand of that external backup device and model? There are
> some tools that can be used to test the speed of the link/controller and
> also the read and write speed of the drive itself. Do you have access to a
> different external in the 2 TB size that you know actually works well? If
> all else fails, you can always go to Walmart and spend a few bucks on an
> external that is larger than you need (I think they have 2, 4 and 12 TB
> models available). I have several of the 1 TB models here and they are all
> blazing fast on a USB C (3.1) port. Takes less than an hour to properly
> format and I’ve used one for backup on my OS X machine so far.
>
> Anyway, let us know how it turns out.
>
> -Eric
> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Research and Development
> Dept.
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2022, at 8:40 AM, Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> I have an Ubuntu 18.04 system with two drives in an lvm with one logical
> root partition. I am trying to back up the contents of the drives (ie /) to
> an external usb drive using rsync. It is taking a really long time. After
> 26 hours of continuous operation I have only transferred 138 GB out of 2+
> TB, so I am looking at about 16 days to complete the transfer.
>
> My rsync command is:
> sudo rsync --no-compress --info=progress2 -avAXEWSlHh
> --exclude={'/run','/mnt','/swapfile','/boot','/dev','/proc','/sys','/run','/mnt','/media','/lost+found','/swapfile.extended','/tmp'}
> / '/media/mark/Seagate Portable Drive/tsunami-backups-Jul_13_17-39/'
>
> Any suggestions on how I can speed this up and not lose any data?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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Trouble Installing Ubuntu 22.04 from USB Stick
I have an older System 76 laptop running 18.04 in a lvm across 2 disks (1 TB and 2 TB). I have backed up all the data, and would like to install 22.04 just on the 1 TB SSD, and then replace the 2 TB with a 4 TB and the backed up data (/home/mark). I downloaded 22.04 desktop iso, verified it, installed it on a USB drive, and booted the USB drive. 22.04 comes up and I can "try" it. When I try to install it, I get as far as the 5th screen, Installation Type, where I select the 1 TB drive and hit continue. Nothing happens after that. I had selected normal installation, download updates, and erase disk. I know nothing is happening because after waiting 10 minutes on that screen, I can still boot into the old 18.04 installation, so the 1 TB drive has not changed. I did this multiple times with different iso downloads, different USB drives, and created the bootable USB on different computers. Could this have anything to do with the lvm currently installed across the two drives? Should I go into the "try" part of the USB drive, open gparted, and reformat the two internal drives, then start the installation again? All I have connected to the computer is power, an Ethernet cable (verified to be working), the USB boot drive, and a USB mouse (the internal trackpad is broken). Thanks! Mark --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
