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Re: Installation Problem



On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:14:16PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 05:43:06 (+0200), Vlad Dragomir wrote:
> > 
> > I found that file too, actually I found four or five of them, but not all. I put them on the USB installation drive but the installer kept asking for them. I'm sorry, I should have been more precise when I said that Google didn't help me much. What I meant was: it only found a few of those files and they were ignored by the installer.
> 
> The most reliable place I've found in the past was in the top-level
> directory on an ordinary FAT-partitioned USB stick.
> 
> The installer writes a log to VC4, which should record where it
                             ^^^^^^^^

This is "virtual console 4". You switch to it by hitting CTRL-ALT-F4.
Similarly...

> looks. If the lines in question have already scrolled off the screen,
> the log can be displayed (rather tediously) with the command
> # more /var/log/syslog
> in a shell you can open on VC2 or VC3.

...for the other virtual consoles.

Cheers
-- t

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