bmcraec
April 16th, 2020, 03:43 AM
My friend wanted to get her laptop working again, as the Windows 10 installation was completely borked, and unrepairable without a complete flush and rebuild, but getting a UEFI Windows .iso USB installer built that would load proved so painful, we decided it would be better to get the laptop onto Ubuntu. She does all her stuff with browsers, so there’s no need for Microsoft tools at all.
After much faffing about getting the UEFI Grub file identified on the installer stick, the installs crashed or stalled out for long periods at many places early in the installation. Eventually I fathomed that it MIGHT be either a SSD or USB hardware issue, or an overheating issue, so after building three installers and failing multiple times with each, I opened the case, turned it on it’s side, and got a fan blowing on the naked motherboard while the install ran one more time to the user account creation and install, where it is still churning, over three hours later.
My Question: How long have people found that 19.10 takes to install? I see the spinning ball with it’s green speed indicators churning and the screen is staying solidly on. There is no progress indicator, so just wondering if there’s a possibility the install has hung, with the progress animation still running. Anybody experience anything like this? Do I let it run all night, or kick it and do the whole damn thing all over again?
After much faffing about getting the UEFI Grub file identified on the installer stick, the installs crashed or stalled out for long periods at many places early in the installation. Eventually I fathomed that it MIGHT be either a SSD or USB hardware issue, or an overheating issue, so after building three installers and failing multiple times with each, I opened the case, turned it on it’s side, and got a fan blowing on the naked motherboard while the install ran one more time to the user account creation and install, where it is still churning, over three hours later.
My Question: How long have people found that 19.10 takes to install? I see the spinning ball with it’s green speed indicators churning and the screen is staying solidly on. There is no progress indicator, so just wondering if there’s a possibility the install has hung, with the progress animation still running. Anybody experience anything like this? Do I let it run all night, or kick it and do the whole damn thing all over again?