On Monday 16 February 2026 at 18:36:37, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:

> ... after an install and before the reboot, I bring up a terminal and do ...

This is not going to work.

You are not at that point "in" the installed system. You are running a
command in the installer environment.

If you cannot reboot the machine at the end of the isntallation process and
get to a login prompt, this problem needs resolving before you can try running
commands in the newly-installed system.


Antony.

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