On 21/05/2025 at 02:33, V Bruce Hunt wrote:
Please make sure that any installation logs that you think would
be useful are attached to this report. (You can find them in the installer
system in /var/log/ and later on the installed system under
/var/log/installer.) Please compress large files using gzip.
I never got this far in the install process. I have no idea how to find
the install log in any event.
During installation, the logs files are in /var/log/. This is a volatile
filesystem so it will vanish on shutdown or reboot.
You can save the logs on persistent storage such as another USB stick
(or the USB stick used for installation if you created an extra
partition on it but that might not be straightforward) using one of the
installer's built-in shells (back to the installer's main menu or in
tty2 or tty3 with Ctrl+Alt+F2|F3). It would be very helpful to find out
what went wrong.
Basically:
blkid /dev/sd* # helps find out the target USB stick
mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt # assuming sdX is the target USR stick
tar czf /mnt/installer_logs.tar.gz /var/log
umount /mnt
