wi-fi disconnected during crouton installation

Question

I purchased an Asus c300m with the soul aim of developing my linux skills

I followed the instruction to boot in developer mode and execute the following command to start downloading downloading crouton/ubuntu on it

sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -t xfce

it was going well until my wifi disconnected temporary and i got the following error:

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Failed to complete chroot setup Unmounting /mtn.stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/precise..

Then I tried to run the sudo command again but I got the following:

/usr/local/chroots/precise already has stuff in it!
Either delete it, specify a different name (-n) or specify -u to update it

However, I'm not sure how to modify the command so i can resume installation or restart it.

Answer 1

You could try sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -u -n xfce but it's unlikely that will work. That's from the Crouton docs.

The best approach, since you never finished installing and therefore don't need to recover any data, just delete the install directory and start again. There is no good way for crouton the pick up where it left off.

Also during the install you don't want the Chromebook going to sleep. There is no way in the built-in ChromeOS settings to prevent that but according to this article you can go to the Chrome Web Store and install Keep Awake from Google.

This gives a cool icon in the upper right of the Chrome browser showing a sun, a sunset or a moon depending on what settings you want. Before you start your next install, click it to the sun so the machine won't sleep.

Answer 2

Just type in sudo start[desktop environment] and press y. It should keep going.

Answer 3

I had the same problem. I ran this and it's downloading:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -e -t xfce -u 

I'm not sure if it's where i left off but it is definitely downloading and reinstalling after the interrupted connection.