Slackware64-14.2 slow installation, quits at bash
by andigena from LinuxQuestions.org on (#51E8C)
I'm trying to install Slackware64-14.2 from a flash drive on a spare laptop. I created the flash drive by downloading the ISO to my main Debian laptop and using dd to copy the ISO image to the flash drive. Every time I try to install Slackware on the spare laptop, it takes an inordinate amount of time to load the kernel and the setup program (like, 5 to 15 minutes each), lagging somewhat even in the console. I can get through most of the installation process, although it takes a while, but it invariably stops installing the system when it gets to bash, saying that the installation media may be corrupt.
Note that the flash drive is fairly new and the computer works completely fine with Debian, so it shouldn't be a matter of hardware. Secure boot is disabled and the computer runs in UEFI mode (and I can't change it to legacy BIOS mode, for no apparent reason).
Things I've tried:
- Use a different mirror to download the ISO (tried slackware.com and slackware.cs.utah.edu), in case one mirror had a malformed copy. Exact same thing happens with both.
- Use the 65 MB USB boot image with an external hard disk containing the actual source tree. This does not show up on my BIOS device selection menu, so this does not work.
- Use 32-bit ISO instead of 64-bit. This also doesn't show up on the BIOS device selection menu.
My suspicion is that the slowness may have something to do with the huge kernel being used in the installer, but I'm not sure how to fix that. Ideas?
Note that the flash drive is fairly new and the computer works completely fine with Debian, so it shouldn't be a matter of hardware. Secure boot is disabled and the computer runs in UEFI mode (and I can't change it to legacy BIOS mode, for no apparent reason).
Things I've tried:
- Use a different mirror to download the ISO (tried slackware.com and slackware.cs.utah.edu), in case one mirror had a malformed copy. Exact same thing happens with both.
- Use the 65 MB USB boot image with an external hard disk containing the actual source tree. This does not show up on my BIOS device selection menu, so this does not work.
- Use 32-bit ISO instead of 64-bit. This also doesn't show up on the BIOS device selection menu.
My suspicion is that the slowness may have something to do with the huge kernel being used in the installer, but I'm not sure how to fix that. Ideas?