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I'm unsure what is going wrong and not having any luck finding a command or file I can tail to figure out why it's having so many problems finishing. Last weekend I tried just installing mint to some unused space on a drive but that seemed to get stuck in the same place. This weekend I'm using the "install alongside windows" option in the installer with the same behavior.

This is being installed from a USB drive into an nvme SSD and I'm really lost s to why it would be like this after more than an hour. Any advice on how to figure out why it gets stuck is appreciated. Hoping to transfer some files over after this is done and then reevaluate if I want/need the windows partition.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Get a terminal by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1, login with the Ubuntu user and a blank password, then look in the installer log: tail -f /var/log/installer/debug

Should tell you where you're getting stuck.

[–] Riffz7@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Sadly there weren't any good logs in the installer debug logs, but the syslog had a good lead to follow up on