I have been trying like crazy to install Aurora, Aurora DX, Bluefin and Kinoite on my PC, but the installer fails to work, and crashes before I get to the GUI. It seems like this is due to something about non UTF-8 characters in one of the partitions on one of my six internal drives, that Python doesn’t support.
For Aurora being a distro for relative beginners, I am a bit outside of my depth, and essentially it locks me out of using Fedora. As my system is dual (or triple boot as I also use it as a hackintosh) essentially I would have to disable the drive, but I can’t from the installer prompt identify which drive is bad, and it also (again) seems a bit crazy that a beginner friendly distro requires you to remove a drive.
The only Fedora distro I have had luck with was Nobara because it uses a different installer. So my system definitely works with Fedora (I’ve also managed to install and run Debian, NixOS and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on this system with no issue, so it is specifically a Fedora Installer issue).
So is there any way for a mere mortal to create a different installer or bypass the Anaconda installer issue?
Also: I have tried disabling the SATA-controller in my BIOS (I’m on a b550 board with a 5900x), and I’ve also reset my bios to use optimized settings, so it is not a BIOS issue. And I have verified the installer drive, and tried multiple USB-drives.
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