• drspod
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    Some notes from my experience of trying to test this:

    • There is no live-cd functionality, just the installer, so don’t expect to try before you install.
    • The installer will tell you that it needs at least 28.1Gb of space. I tried installing to a 32Gb (virtual) drive which allowed the installer to proceed, but then the installation failed with a “No space left on device” error.
    • After increasing the virtual drive to 50Gb the installer then failed with an error that it failed to run grub-install

    I didn’t get any further than this. I was attempting to install in a VirtualBox VM.

    • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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      1 year ago

      Regarding the failed install error, you need to make sure that VirtualBox is using UEFI - Legacy Boot isn’t currently supported at the moment.

      Had the same issue while using Boxes, switching it to UEFI allowed the install to complete successfully!

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        Thanks, it gets a bit further, but this time fails with:

        grub-install: warning: Cannot set EFI variable Boot0003.
        grub-install: warning: efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd 6 failed: Read-only file system.
        grub-install: warning: _efi_set_variable_mode: ops->set_variable() failed: Read-only file system.
        grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Read-only file system.
        panic: Failed to run grub-install: exit status 1
        
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          Interesting, I’m not too sure what could be causing that, but if I had to take a guess VirtualBox’s UEFI implementation doesn’t allow for writes from the VM, at least by default. It’s been a long time since I’ve used VirtualBox (since before UEFI was even really a thing), I don’t suppose there’s any sort of setting that might resemble making it writable?

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            My version of VirtualBox is a few years old so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was lacking some features.

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              If you’re using UEFI in VB, definitely update to the latest version. UEFI support in older VB was pretty bad. Works a lot better now, though I haven’t had time to test this new version of Vanilla OS, so YMMV.