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Mounting failure during initial installation.

Hi, I have generally had lots of trouble getting Artix installed; I've never actually got it successfully installed and have just accepted my laptop hardware really hates it (even though people with my exact laptop model of got it running smoothly)  :'( .
Though what errors look like have varied throughout months of trying it, I am now getting a consistent error across all Artix isos in the form of pic related.
Can anyone more knowledgeable explain what this means? I'd really like to use this distro!

Re: Mounting failure during initial installation.

Reply #1 –
That's a very old installation ISO (October 2018). If you insist on installing that one, the you could try the following:
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# cd /dev/disk/by-label
# ls
You should see the real ISO label, e.g. LABEL, you need to rename it accordingly, i.e. ARTIX_201810.
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# mv LABEL ARTIX_201810
# exit
Hopefully, it'll resume booting normally. If not, reboot and also check that the symlink points to the correct device, usually /dev/sr0 or /dev/sdb1 if you only have got one disk in your laptop, otherwise link it yourself:
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# ls -l
ARTIX_201810 -> ../../sr2
(say it's symlinked to sr2 which is wrong )
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# ln -s /dev/sr0 ARTIX_201810
# exit

Re: Mounting failure during initial installation.

Reply #2 –
Is this booted from a USB flashdrive? If you're creating this bootable drive under Windows from an ISO image with a tool such as Rufus, you need to tell it to explicitly write that image in DD mode, not in ISO mode.