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29 Sep 2022

Debian linux install hangs on configuring network + debugging linux install issues

  • Allegedly happens when the network is misconfigured.
    • Since a black screen issue I religiously md5sum the ISOs, otherwise that would’ve been the prime suspect
  • In my case I had port forwarding and DMZ and ipv6 configured in the router, disabling all of that fixed the installation issues
  • To debug installation issues, <Ctrl-Shift-F2> to go to the tty and cat /var/log/syslog
    • less is not installed but nano is
    • tty4 has live running logs
      • that are nice for non-graphical install and “is it doing anything now?”

Relevant: 5.4. Troubleshooting the Installation Process

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