New motherboard install crashes

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#1

Installing XFCE from a USB stick that was successful with another motherboard. At the configuration screen I click on “disable firewall” and the installation stops with a red notice telling me “An error occurred during the installation.” The mouse doesn’t respond and the only choice is “OK” which responds to the <ENTER> key and returns me to the start all over again. I would expect some kind of error reporting or at least access to an installation log file, but nothing shows. Not very helpful.

I plan on restarting the somewhat slow process and allowing the firewall, but an indication of the error would be much more helpful.

Suggestions?

#2

SOLVED - Bad motherboard even though it’s new. Well bought two months ago and never used. With integrated CPU and fan, so only the memory is usable.

#3

Sometime during an installation, key in Ctrl-Alt-F2. That will produce a shell prompt. From there, Alt-Fn, except for Alt-F7, will produce either another shell prompt, or various logging. Alt-F7 returns to YaST.