NomadBSD 1.3.2

leo · October 21, 2020, 8:14am

After using the liveusb and installing on my PC. It is not installed on the hard drive. The installation does not finish.
And when restarting it gives error and cannot start the system.

mk1 · October 21, 2020, 9:53am

Hi @leo,

try the latest back-end script of the NomadBSD installer. Download the update script, and run it:

fetch https://nomadbsd.org/download/update-installer
sh update-installer

Then try again with the NomadBSD installer.

byronc · October 21, 2020, 1:10pm

I had a similar experience with the installer failing to properly complete an HDD install. In my case it had to do with the way in which the NomadBSD 1.3.2 image was dd’d to the flash/thumb drive. I.e. when dd’ing the Nomad image to USB drive on my everyday FreeBSD 12.1 workstation, I had to add “conv=sync” to the end of the dd command string. I.e. for a thumb-drive at /dev/da0:

dd if=nomadbsd-1.3.2.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1m conv=sync

leo · October 23, 2020, 1:23am

When updating the installer, the system could be installed, but when restarting it begins to load and when the desktop is shown, the screen remains black and does not show the desktop.

gbar · October 23, 2020, 10:05am

Hi, I had the same issues. I thought it was me or my hardware. I gave up and installed a Linux distro in the end.
Like it was said above I didn’t have any issues with an initial install but when I tried again sometime after something had changed / broken

mk1 · October 23, 2020, 4:14pm

Please run sudo nomadbsd-sysinfo | nc termbin.com 9999, and post the returned URL here.

Donald · October 24, 2020, 3:55am

I had no issues installing 1.3.2 until I updated, not upgraded, and the sound was gone. Neither my Dell with an HDMI sound system or the laptop sound worked after the update was installed. Many are having sound issues with 12.1.

gbar · October 31, 2020, 7:30am

Struggling getting the ‘pipe’ symbol and also not connecting through Ethernet or Wi-Fi at the moment, keyboard shenanigans and something else. Will reply later with details, thanks

gbar · October 31, 2020, 5:07pm

Hi

nc: getaddrinfo: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution

I must say i think it was hardware before. I had this SSD from before that i had ‘installed’ Nomad on. the old laptop wouldn’t boot but this newer machine does boot. i have other issues which i’ll ask elswhere.

12.1-RELEASE-p6