Hey everyone,
I’m trying to install Fedora 40 on a 32GB USB stick, bue for some reason it gets stuck at “installing software 7%”. I already tried restarting the computer, but it didn’t work. Here’s the foto of the screen:
What can I do?
What can I do?
How long did you wait while it was at 7%?
Try waiting atleast 15 minutes, it may just be being slow.
There are logs being written into other virtual consoles.
You can look at them using Ctrl-Alt-F1 … Ctrl-Alt-F6
To go back to the GUI use Ctrl-Alt-F7.
Do you see any errors in any of the other consoles?
Hi, thanks for the response. The installation goes to 8% and then stops. I waited 15 minutes and it’s still at 8%. Now it’a at 9% after like 20 minutes from the begin of the installation, so maybe it’s just slow like you said? With alt+ctrl+f1 it seems like a log out and with alt+ctrl+f6 I go in a terminal and I have to log in with the user but I don’t know if that’s right and the password either. And I can’t come back with alt+ctrl+f7. Also, I don’t know if that can help, but in “logs” app I see this:
I wonder if you have a hardware issue and that is why its so slow.
The logs app is not showing the anaconda install logs, which is where I was hoping you would see errors that explain what is happening.
Try starting a GUI terminal while the install is running and run the dmesg command.
Are there disk errors at the end of the output?
The 15 minutes might not be enough, there might be no malfunctioning, and even more so for external USB installation. I remember on my recent installs (both VM and bare metal SSD) that the 7-8% progress stage is taking the most, then suddenly jumps to over 50%. I would give it at least half an hour.
I typed “dmesg” and it says “read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted”. I’m assuming that is for the fact that I’ not a root or something like that, but I’m not sure. I did “sudo dmesg”, I got three errors:
In fact it’s now at 31%. It’s going, but is really slow and it is possible that it’s a hardware issue. Anyway, the USB stick is really slow, so I can purchase another one if needed. I’m curious to know if I can do it on this though
The recommended way for external storage device would be SSD or NVMe and not USB flash drive. An NVMe with external enclosure is not that bulky, yet it provides serious performance improvements over USB drive. Might be pricier though.
You’re right, I already have a Fedora installation on a Hard Disk. I was just trying to use the flexibility of Linux, since I don’t have another SSD or HD. This would have been useful, so I’m trying that
Thanks everyone! I waited and Fedora installed successfully. So the solution was just wait. The USB is apparently very slow, so I’m gonna get a new one. Thanks again to everyone!
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USB drives are optimized for low cost with a relatively small number of large files. Most are not suitable for running Linux so you get poor performance and reduced lifetime. You can often find small (128GB) NVME SSD’s pulled from Windows systems that ran out of space at low coast. Add an external USB3 case and linux should work nicely (I have two such Fedora installations) and an old iMac with a laptop spinning media hard disk – Fedora in the external USB3 case boots faster and is responsive in regular use.