@kageurufu Glad you got this one sorted, I think from memory the Sandisk Ultra Fit was going to be too slow anyway.
Re:
Agreed. In fact in the very early days (read when it didn’t work) of the installer we had by-id names showing up and that’s definitely nicer as they can often given a fairly good indication/confirmation of the device, i.e. via manufacturer within the name. But then we started seeing the sda type names and just had bigger issue at hand than chasing down what might have caused this. Plus the installer started to work at around that point which was nice.
It may be there is some kiwi-ng setting or the like where we can re-gain this but I’ve not gotten around to chasing this one up.
Thanks for your report, and sharing your findings:
In our docs:
Installation Installation — Rockstor documentation
section we link to our:
Pre-Install Best Practice (PBP): Pre-Install Best Practice (PBP) — Rockstor documentation
which in turn has a section on Wiping Disks (DBAN): Pre-Install Best Practice (PBP) — Rockstor documentation
Which may well have shown up the failure of the prior problematic USB key. But again I’m pretty sure this is not a performant key so would likely not have given adequate results anyway. Out of interest what is the USB number for this key?
I have a SanDisk Ultrafit: idVendor=0781, idProduct=5583
here myself, 64 GB, as we had a report of a variant having a really long serial number but alas the one I received did not:
usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fit_4C530001111124116103-0:0
I only have a single record of an install timing using this device as the system disk on an old Dell OptiPlex 755
model name : Intel(R) Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Installing:
From: SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 installer (in USB 2.0 port)
To: SanDisk Ultra Fit 64 GB(in USB 2.0 port) shows up as 55 GB in Rockstor Web-UI.7 mins to login prompt.
8.5 mins to Rockstor Web-UI availability
And for comparison on the same old machine a more performance orientated USB system disk:
From: SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 installer (in USB 2.0 port)
To: SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 installer (in USB 2.0 port)4 minst to login prompt.
5 mins 12 s to Rockstor Web-UI Setup page available.
It would likely have done better in a USB 3.0 port though. Take a look at the following forum posts in this area:
and
And as it goes this has reminded me of the following outstanding doc issue influenced by the above @b8two exposition re USB 2.0:
I’d forgotten about that one. Oh well, bit by bit.
Hope that helps and well done on getting your older supermicro system up and running. Care to share more details of it’s hardware?