Common Installation Issues

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• About
• Issues List
  • Cannot detect CD-ROM when using USB install media
  • Video card is too old

About

This page details some common issues and pitfalls when installing SteamOS

Issues List

Cannot detect CD-ROM when using USB install media

Try creating you USB install media again with the methods outlined in the Getting Started wiki page. Aside from this you can do the following when the failure occurs:

1. Use CTRL+ALT+F2 to enter a shell;
2. Find the installation partition in /dev, e.g. /dev/sdb1;
3. Mount the partition with mount -t vfat /dev/sdXX /cdrom, replacing XX as appropriate;
4. Return to the installer with CTRL+ALT+F5 and retry the detection process.

Video card is too old

Message:
"Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-overwrite --force-confold --skip-same-version --install /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-legacy-check_$VERSION"

• Translation:
  Your video card is either too old, or unsupported for the mentioned driver version. See "Getting Started - GPU"