On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 18:19 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
I'm doing a new install, and everything seems to have gone fine apart from the incredible amount of time it's taken.
It does have 6 x 4TB drives in RAID6 and I am installing from a USB DVD drive as I had no SATA ports left, but this is getting rediculous.
I chose a simple install (the one above file and print server) and added Postgresql but that was about it.
It took over 5 hours to do the install and at 16:50 it changed to
Performing post-installation setup tasks. That was 85 minutes ago. The HDD light keeps flashing, but other than that (and the circle swirling) there doesn't seem to be any activity.
Is this normal and can I check to see if it is actually doing something?
Just as an added bit of information (because I see you are getting avc issues as well).
I often see this when using Intel firmware raid - it basically comes down to the initialisation of the RAID being a quite long process and if initialisation and installation is happening at the same time everything fights for disk bandwidth. A new installation on a new 1 Tb RAID 1 can take 4 or 5 hours.
I usually just let it get on with its stuff and I come back in a few hours (I've got plenty of other things to do!). Sometimes, if I know I'll have to watch the install or if I'm trying new things, I'll boot into a live CD and let the RAID initialisation happen there.
P.