Hi!
I tried to install KaOS today (2014-08-20) and, after several attempts, had to give up:
The installation process hangs reproducably.
1. Yesterday I downloaded the .iso file (KaOS-2014.06-x86_64.iso) from your website and checked it using md5sum - no errors.
2. I burnt the file on a DVD using K3b at a reduced speed of 2,5x, having read the recommodation on your website about that.
3. I have a rather new LENOVO ThinkPad Edge E520 with a new 500GB HDD on which I want to try out the OS.
4. I partitioned the HDD before using the installer (there my first confusion: Is the DVD with the mentioned .iso file on it a live OS or the installer? Or is it both? I assumed it is both, so I kept using that image):
Using GParted (live DVD version) I created this GPT:
a) partition no. 1 - unformatted, about 64MiB (following "demm's" example)
b) partition no. 2 - ext4, as /, about 16GiB
c) partition no. 3 - ext4, as /home
d) partition no. 4 - linux_swap, about 12GiB
5. After setting up those partitions I added the flag bios_grub to partition no. 1, with GParted you have to do that after creating the partitions.
6. I'm using 8GiB RAM.
7. I'm almost sure that the HDD was OK: I had installed KUBUNTU 14.04 and MINT17 on it several days back - all working flawlessly. I use the HDD for experimenting, so I had no problems to erase the two OSs by installing KaOS. There were no personal data that I would have had to save.
8. Well, all said and done I started my computer, put in the KaOS DVD and restarted it. I then chose Start live KaOS (or whatever it's called) in the boot menu, and all went well until the process "Failed to start Login Service" and not long after that "Failed to start Network Manager".
After that the DVD drive stopped and the process came to a halt.
I could hear my HDD ticking over but that was all.
So eventually I took the DVD out and turned off the computer.
That whole installation process I went through twice, having burnt a second DVD and having re-partitioned the HDD anew using the old MSdos partitiontable. No success.
Any suggestions?
(As I don't know how to copy the error messages off the screen that are shown during the installation process I cannot give you the full reason for the two errors that ocurred.)
Any hints are welcome - I really would like to be able to use KaOS - the demo videos look just great, the design is just what I have been looking for, and although I have a strong machine I tried to install the OS on it would be good to be able to try something less blown up than the "ordinary" KUBUNTU which I'm using presently as my working OS (although I do love KUBUNTU!).