Where is handbook for Installer in Live-versions with Solus 4.5 ?

BuzzPCSOS

DirtyAngel I keep checking back on your posts and feel that there should be something I can do but I'm not sure what you are trying to do.

Does PC boot from install media into Souls Live environment?
What version of Solus are you trying to install?
Are you trying to install alongside other operating systems?
Sorry but I need to get some facts right so we all know what part of the installation is failing.

craigtoyoracer

DirtyAngel Please follow this procedure, for the best Solus experience. 🙂

https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/installation/

then understanding the boot process

https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/boot-management

a quick overview of main Apps

https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/default-applications

I do hope that helps you setup Solus. 🙂

DirtyAngel

+++ Thank You. But Installer of Solus GNOME 4.5 does Not Work with Orico USB Case and SSD online.
I wonder If perhaps Orico has uefi or efi chip ?
But there is no error message ?
I tried GNOME ISO same normal way like with Budgie.
No result, simply breaking Installation Off.
I would want back offline installation.
Anyway after this I do update online. +++

WetGeek

DirtyAngel But Installer of Solus GNOME 4.5 does Not Work with Orico USB Case and SSD online.

I once tried to install a second system using an .ISO file on an SSD in an external case plugged into a USB port. It didn't work for me. I could never select the remote SSD as the source of the installation. It didn't appear when I pressed F12 during the POST routine at startup. Only internal disks showed up there.

This was on a DELL Latitude, an enterprise level desktop. All Intel. So eventually I came to the conclusion that the computer simply had not gotten to the point where it could recognize an external disk that was connected to a USB port.

Since it was only an experiment -- to see whether I coud do it -- I simply gave up and haven't tried again since then. Did you actually get farther than I did when you tried? Could you see the remote drive listed and select it as the installation medium?

Axios

DirtyAngel No uefi or efi chips. (orico picture)
Its Just a Sata to Usb bridge chipset. (Just for converion)
The serial flash stores vendor info.

(Just info)

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WetGeek

So eventually I came to the conclusion that the computer simply had not gotten to the point where it could recognize an external disk that was connected to a USB port.

That sounds like an installer/OS limitation to me. Most likely the former.

WetGeek

[deleted] That sounds like an installer/OS limitation to me.

No idea here. As I wrote, I tried it out of curiosity, that's all. It wasn't worth a lot of time and effort to debug it, as I assumed I'd get nowhere with that anywayt.

It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has been able to do that, expecially on a Latitude.

AlphaElwedritsch

It's the calamares installer.
Maybe you can look there of it has limitations

Harvey

Assuming I understand you correctly. There are people who have managed to make it work before we switched to calamares but we have never supported installing to an external USB drive, we do not recommend it and as such there will not be an official guide for it.

BuzzPCSOS

@DirtyAngel You will have to forgive me if I have failed to understand properly what you are trying to do here. To install Solus onto an external USB.
I don't know if this would work. Could the Solus iso be written onto the USB device prepared with Ventoy which would give you a bootable USB, and then add persistence by the use of the Ventoy persistence plugin.
I have not tried to do this, it was just a random thought but maybe a different direction to consider.

DirtyAngel

@BuzzPCSOS +++ It is okay. No blaming from my side here. I thank you all for your answers. Just tried again with Budgie-4.5-ISO and this worked like a charm. But I achieved only without LVM-encryption. Approbably there is a conflict between LVM-encryption and partition-table with GPT or with MS-Dos. In Budgie-ISO partition-table with GPT is resolved. In GNOME-ISO it is not resolved ? Okay. You have time. No hurry !! I try later again with GNOME-ISO and with LVM-encryption. Thank you !! +++

brent

DirtyAngel I ran Budgie every day off of a USB stick for a year. Then with another USB and that last a few months.
It ran fine but I'm a low-level user. Memory and speed are real issues. Eventually I got rid of Win and gave Solus the whole platter but that's another lifetime and story.

Moral: USBs are not built for this kind of heavy lifting--they go to heck pretty fast and they should.
EDIT: External is interesting since it's a platter. I ran off a Lacie Porche external for a while. External will wreak havoc with booting and will keep boot manager permanently confused. trust me.