Total Failure on Kubuntu 21.04 install

[Bruce Marshall]

Yup, commenting out the cdrom statement in sources.list cured the 
problem....


On 4/10/21 3:22 AM, Mark Fraser wrote:
> What does the /etc/apt/sources.list file look like?
>
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2021, 22:24 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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