Greeting Solusians!
I have installed Solus 4.4 and it finally showed up in the Das Boot. [MBR]
The failed boot stated dat the Kernal was missing and needs to be
installed.
If so, where do I go to compile it ? I am a tech dolt and even after
using Linux for 15 years. :< (( : 
<------- nice emogees
Frank you for any helf :< ))
This is a really confusing post. Which edition of Solus did you install? Did you download the .ISO file for it from the getsol.us website? You should have no need to compile anything in order to install Solus.
It would probably be a good idea to know what kind of computer you're installing it on, too.
Only advice I got download install it again.
Otherwise it makes no sense without more info.
Your Geekship, it was Harmony and yes, the prudent option is to .ISO
directly from the author.
It is installed on my home rig, hand built.
I have tried three installations; one more attempt. If it fails,
I will try another d/l and installation.
blueicetwice it was Harmony and yes, the prudent option is to .ISO
directly from the author.
I'm afraid no one here is likely to be able to help you. There is no Harmony edition of Solus, just Budgie, GNOME, MATE (for now) and Plasma. And the Solus .ISO files aren't available from any author. They're built by the Solus team, and avaiable only from the GetSol.us web site. There ... that was pretty easy.
WetGeek Harmony rang a bell. I think it was the 4.4 'codename' before Fortitude was official. Or something. Or a vetoed name. Folklore? https://www.opensourcefeed.org/solus-44-harmony/
As for OP, I would opine any failed install I ever had was my own doing: didn't have install medium ready, etc.
This where I got the "Harmony" from.: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/9429-solus-44-harmony-released
The favor was Mate.
brent I'm surprised we haven't yanked Mate at the Main Site yet
it won't be long. Ermo tells me that the Xfcp Bluetooth issue we're working on is essentially the last 4.5 issue. The development team is mostly working on post-4.5 stuff now. I'm not helping because of any special Linux debugging skills, but because I have 2 identical laptops, one with Plasma (where Bluetooth works fine) and one with Xfce (where it's still a work in progress). I've been learning a lot about debugging bluetooth.service and generating logs. Ermo is a very patient teacher.
Try twice again to install. FAILURE!
Burned another DVD from Solus site. Two tries failed because it would not create an ext4 file. LOL LOL
This is the worst installation attempt of over a dozen Linux OSs. I have spent two to three hours, wherein,
a hair brain should be able to do in under thirty minutes.
Time to move on.
blueicetwice it would be hare brained to not study this https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/installation/ or this https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/installation/disks.
every distro is particular in prep re: bare metal installs.
try it from ventoy or deicated usb.
make sure you made the partition GPT and let solus do the rest.
there is no single distro you can just hit 'install'' without some prep
You installing it from dvd?
interesting most use usb nowdays maybe thats an issue
blueicetwice This where I got the "Harmony" from
Okay, that's fair. It was when the version came out a long time ago, so I'd forgotten. What I'd asked you, though, was what edition you were using. Now you tell me it's MATE.
MATE is a desktop environment (a DE) that's no longer supported, even by Solus. Solus is about to release version 4.5, in which there will be the usual Budgie, GNOME, and Plasma DEs, but also the newest addition to the Solus family, Xfce, which will be taking the place of MATE. But that's not really important right now, as any of the Solus editions (except maybe GNOME) would be a good choice, and that includes Xfce.
The development team is even working on a utility to help current MATE users transition to Xfce. They won't even need to installl Solus again. It'll be like computer magic.
But if anyone can help you get Solus installed on your home-built computer, it'll be people like Bret, and Axios, and me here in the forum. We've been using Solus for years, and don't have any problems installing it on computers for the first time.
There's nothing wrong with home-built computers, if they have the right components in them. I've built several over the years, starting with a case, and a motherboard, and disk drives. But there's one thing that might keep you from installing Solus on your home-built computer: Solus is designed to run on 64-bit computers only. It won't run on 32-bit machines, which haven't been sold for decades. If that's the kind of processor in your home-built computer, you won't be able to run Solus no matter how many times you try to install it.
Fortunately for you, there are some other distributions that do still offer a 32-bit version, and there's been discussion here recently about them. You could use the forum search feature to find and read those messages. That's if your computer is a 32-bit machine, but we don't know that for sure. Like I said, they haven't been made in decades, but we just don't know what you're working with. That's just one possibility for why you're having trouble installing Solus, but not the only possibility.
Do you know what kind of central processing unit (CPU) is in your home-built computer? Is it Intel? AMD? Something else? And there's always a model name or number, like Pentium or Core 2 Duo. If you could provide us with the make and model of your CPU, we could look it up and find out if it's a 64-bit model, and capable of running Solus. Does your computer have any USB ports? Do you know what those are?
There are lots of us here who can help you to get Solus installed on your computer, if it's able to run a modern operating system. But nobody here is going to be able to help you without knowing the capabilities of your home-built computer, especially what kind of CPU it has. Please see if you can tell us some more about what you're using, and we'll try to help you.
blueicetwice this is a BIOS rig and
thus GPT is not an option.
I have no idea what a "BIOS rig" is. Do you? Could you please explain it to us, so we can try to help you? And are you trying to install Ubuntu here? I thought this discussion was about installing Solus.
Ax, as a reactionary, I do it the old fashion way. Why ?
@Brent, tanks for the linkies, I did review them prior to the installations.
