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I'm gonna try this workaround first thing when I get home. I tried installing Statler on my desktop from USB, only to see it fail at 33% during the "Install the system" step, right after setting up the partitions (it works fine on my netbook, apart from the occasionally jumpy touchpad).
If this works, I'll buy you a few beers!
Hi Berk,
In my case, I tried a USB install and did a manual partitioning. I was able to mount the USB onto cdrom. But post partitioning when the installation begins, it reaches 33% and then says "Install failed". I am getting stuck at this point. I have no idea what to do. I did google but there seems to be very little help for crunchbang USB install other than this forum.
Still waiting for someone to help me sort this matter. Does anyone believe this is a Debian problem and not a crunchbang problem?
-Harakiri
Bumping this problem b/c I've been suffering from it too. I have Stater installed fine on my EeePC 900A, but I run into this problem on my desktop. Not sure how many others have this problem, but it's rather annoying.
On the previous page, I posted a picture of the error messages I got right after the problem occurred.
harakiri wrote:Hi Berk,
In my case, I tried a USB install and did a manual partitioning. I was able to mount the USB onto cdrom. But post partitioning when the installation begins, it reaches 33% and then says "Install failed". I am getting stuck at this point. I have no idea what to do.
-HarakiriThe fact that the install fails at a certain point leads me to suspect that it could be an issue with the ISO or a bad "sector" on the usb drive. Have you tried checking the image (MD5)? Don't mean to be rude, sometimes I find myself transcending reality with the solution in front of my nose!
I wonder if it's possible to have more informative error messages when installing since it can be frustrating to have the install fail and be left with a "useless" error message.
As for my part I tried unetbootin and Ubuntu's USB Startup Disk Creator and both would fail at the select CD-ROM step, no matter what I tried, nothing would work and the installer would not continue. The most irritating part for me was that the live usb session worked just fine!
You're running off the f***in' drive how the f*** can't you find it?!?
Then I tried the 'dd' method described in the WiKi and it worked perfectly. Thank you for enlightening me!
I don't think there's a problem with the ISO, bc I used the same one to install it on my netbook.
Hi Berk,
In my case, I tried a USB install and did a manual partitioning. I was able to mount the USB onto cdrom. But post partitioning when the installation begins, it reaches 33% and then says "Install failed". I am getting stuck at this point. I have no idea what to do. I did google but there seems to be very little help for crunchbang USB install other than this forum.
Still waiting for someone to help me sort this matter. Does anyone believe this is a Debian problem and not a crunchbang problem?
-Harakiri
I've had this problem on my desktop, but still have no idea either (Googling didn't help much). The annoying thing is it works on my netbook (in fact, I'm writing this reply in the #! Statler partition), just not my desktop. I've been meaning to try installing vanilla Debian to see whether it's a CrunchBang problem and not general Debian problem, but I haven't found the time yet. Once I do, I'll let you know.
ooooooo.
That's me lost.
I recommend a google search of the error as a starting point.
Will still follow the thread though.
There're probably additional status messages that just happened to get pushed off screen by the ones in the picture, so I'm gonna do it again later and try to keep better track of the messages. And I'll definitely Google around.
hmm,
Some useful information could be found at the time it fails by pressing the following keys:
Ctrl+Alt+f1
Or Ctrl+Alt+f2 through to f7
and looking for any output messages there.
Post what you find and we can go from there.
Here's a picture I took of the output screen (it ended up being CTRL+ALT+F4) after the error occurred. I had to try installing and take it in a hurry, so I couldn't see if there were additional errors or anything. Hope we can find out something with it. 
@magladek - So regular Debian doesn't work on your desktop either? What about other distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Zenwalk etc?
Actually, this is the first time trying any Linux distro on my desktop. My netbook (EeePC 900A) has been the only machine I've used for Linux. It's currently dual-booting CrunchEee 8.10 and #! Statler. The only other distros I've tried on it were UNR, Easy Peasy, Arch Linux and Moblin, so #! Statler's the first Debian distro I've tried. I'm really hoping to get it running on my desktop; if not, I'll try putting Crunchbang 9.04 on it, at the very least.
I still cannot install the alpha on my desktop. I've heard that Debian doesn't play well with certain hardware, which would be a massive disappointment, since it runs fine on my netbook, but I've love to use it on the desktop as well. Check post #65 for the details. Anyone have any ideas? I can provide specs if needed.
So I managed to install Statler to my EeePC pretty smoothly, using a LiveUSB (with the "dd" method). I've tried it on my desktop (connected to a wired network), and everything goes well up until the "Install the system" step, right after the "Setup partitions" step or whatever. It gets to about 33%, then gives this error message:
INSTALL THE SYSTEM
Installation step failed
An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else instead. The failing step is= Install the system.
Any ideas?
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