Total Failure on Kubuntu 21.04 install

[Bruce Marshall]

Think I've found the problem.  In the sources.list is an entry for a 
CDROM which is NOT commented out. Looked at the list for 20.10 and that 
statement IS commented out.

Will try again after commenting that statement.


On 4/10/21 11:26 AM, Charlie Luna wrote:
> i've had the same issue on my laptop with what sounds like the same 
> outcome. it's done that everytime i've tried to install 21.04. i was 
> doing the zsync but had to do a fresh install and it had that error.
>
> charlie
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021, 14:24 Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com 
> <mailto:bmarsh at bmarsh.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I usually try to upgrade my systems when a beta is announced, and other than some glitches of past installs, it usually goes well.
>
>     And I always do a fresh install, never an upgrade.  (shudder)
>
>     Anyway, I went to install 21.04 and it totally failed.
>
>     Installed from a USB and at the end it said it had a failure installing grub.  I have an HDD and an m2 disk.  Tried both, and got a failure note.
>
>     However the system did boot and I figured out later that it was the efi portion of grub-install that failed...  yet there was NO indication of that, so others
>     might have totally scapped the install at that point.
>
>     So I continued with the install since I don't use the efi anyway and that problem is most like a problem with my efi setup.
>
>     But installing other packages, I continually got a message to "please mount CDROM <lots of info> into /media/cdrom    and the pkg install would stop.  Could
>     not get past that point.
>
>     So I built a cdrom install disk figuring that might work.  Nope, got the same message after the install trying to install pkgs such as postfix or libdvd-pkg
>
>     So this is the first time I have totally struck out on a beta install.
>
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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         04/10/21 11:35  +
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