Wolvix on my school computer; Problems

[kaldor]

I reformatted and attempted wolvix too many times. I decided to just retry ubuntu. Installed in 10 minutes.

Wolvix is great, but I can see what Wolven says; it is experimental as far as installation goes so far.

Too bad, I much prefer Wolvix to Ubuntu now

[Tom]

WooooHoooo, a Delta Wolf.  No longer just a Cub but a fully fledged delta wolf  
Sad to hear Wolvix didn't work and Ubuntu did but glad to hear a linux did work fast.  Did anyone see?  Did you manage to set office defaults and get internet and network-file-sharing?

Good luck and congrats
Regards from
Tom

[phap]

Strange, for me wolvix install much faster as ubuntu.
As for fast install, faster I saw for now is slitaz (or maybe puppy).

[kaldor]

Nearly a year later and I try installing Wolvix on a new machine... the same problem again!!! 29% and it is stuck!!

I really don't want to have to revert to another distro like last time

[oithona]

Kaldor

Which version of wolvix and which version of the installer (wolvix-control-panel) are you using?

[brotherinbluejeans]

kaldor,  i have had that same thing happen to me when installing on lowend machines.. it hangs up and i think it has failed .. but i leave it for a couple of hours and when i come back its all done.. old cpu's + little ram.. (my 512 ram on this laptop made it almost a 3 hour install,)

[kaldor]

I was using beta2 (Will there be another soon?) and using the HD-install (Full) option in the control panel. Why would a distro as small as Wolvix take so long to install while other distros install on the same computer within minutes?

Edit for more info: I let it hang at 29% for about 2 hours. When I returned it was still there, except the computer wasn't making any noises and the mouse didn't want to move.

[oithona]

K .. can you try running the control panel/installer from the command line and reporting any error messages ...

as root in a terminal type: wolvix-control-panel

Also tell us a little about your hardware...