I tried to install current from DVD and after a few packages get installed, the rest of the packages fail to install with an "error 1". It says the media is corrupt or disk is full.

I "df -h" and the install disk at 0% usage so, I assumed the DVD image was bad.

I downloaded the mini-install disk and used kernel.org's http and it does the same thing. Installs a few packages and then dies with "corrupt media or disk full" error. Again, the install directory is 0% disk usage. I tried a different mirror and the same thing happens.


Anyone have any ideas about this?

It sounds like your hard drive, or at least the partition you are installing to is full

From Alien-bob's site, with the mini install .iso's

Have you downloaded the required files ?

Could you post exactly what you have downloaded, how you burned the DVD including the software you used. Did you do a md5sum check on the downloaded .iso file?

AFAIK, the mini install is for current only. Is your intention to install current?

What is the full url/directory-path your entering for the install?

"It sounds like your hard drive, or at least the partition you are installing to is full" - Nope DF shows none of the partitions are full or even close to being full (except SR0).


"Could you post exactly what you have downloaded, how you burned the DVD including the software you used." -
I downloaded and burned this: https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sl...nstall-dvd.iso
...and this: https://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sl...ni-install.iso

...and burned them both with K3b


"Did you do a md5sum check on the downloaded .iso file?" - no because the FTP/HTTP install fails the same way as the DVD install.

"Is your intention to install current?" - yes.

"What is the full url/directory-path your entering for the install?" -
I used setup and chose /dev/sda2 (sda1 is the EFI partition).
For the source on the FTP install, I chose http://mirrors.kernel.org/slackware/...nt/slackware64. The source URL/path is correct becuase it found the packagelists, tag files and installed SOME of the packages.

It's not a hardware problem because Linux Mint and FreeNAS both installed fine.

What does parted -l ouput

You are trying to install Slackware from one of AlienBob's liveslack iso's. You need to follow one of the methods described here -->http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak in order to have success with installing from live Slack.

I have done the method described as PXE booting the Live OS using my Rasberry Pi as a NFS server. I have also done an install using the method "Using the Live OS to install Slackware to hard disk".

Both methods worked for me. You do have to follow the instructions as stated.

Those are -current install ISO, not Live-Slack.

Can you try again and once you run into the issue, go ahead and back out of the installer and provide the output of the following command:

Could it be that by accident you are not installing to your hard drive partition but instead into the RAM disk in which the installer is running? That would explain the fact that after a couple of packages have been successfully installed, the remainder fails - such a thing would happen when the RAM disk capacity is eventually used up.

Okay, I looked at it again (and did the lsblk command) and here's what I have figured out-

The steps I took to install:

1) gdisk /dev/sda
- sda1 = 250M EFI partition
- sda2 = 29G Linux partition

2) Ran setup-

3) Chose TARGET
- chose /dev/sda2
- got the "/dev/sda2 / will be added to fstab" message
- got a "EFI partition found /dev/sda1 ... blah blah"

4) Chose SOURCE
- chose CD/DVD
- got "Found a slackware disk in sr0"

5) Started install, chose: all packages, FULL install.
...It started to install then started failing again.


Flipped to a new terminal and did a "mount" and saw that /dev/sda2 WASN'T mounted but sda1 was on /mnt/boot/EFI

So the problem seems (to me) to be that setup isn't mounting sda2 to /mnt

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MY SOLUTION: Turned on Legacy Boot in BIOS, fdisk'd the disk, installed normally. So far it's installing fine.