setup sideloading with existing OS versions fails
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the custom installation flow on OS version 8.x, including partitioning with Gparted and selecting the EFI, root, and swap partitions; done means the wizard completes sideloading reliably and explains any failure.
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Description
What Happened?
Hi,
If you don´t select a custom install setup will fail (at least in my case.
If you do select a custom installation ánd you setup a partition, it failed the first time (after closing Gparted, the other screen was refreshed and disappeared.
The second time (reboot) it failed again, after selecting the EFI and the root partition (what misses?), no info was given why.
The third time I selected the EFI, the root partition and the (prepared) swap partition.
Now this is a user friendly OS, and this should be in the install wizard too.
So I was warned in (very and too negative) youtube video's, and really wanted this experience.
It should be more polished in order to get more users quickly setup.
Bottom line, happy to run it finally bare metal, and very enthusiastic, now coming from fedora (and for work Windows).
Steps to Reproduce
Descibed above
Expected Behavior
A smooth setup, even in side loading.
OS Version
8.x (Circe)
Session Type
Secure Session (Wayland)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
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Hardware Info
No response
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