Beta 3 ISO set, alternative download
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Hello everyone,
This is Luis. I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Beta 3 ISO set for Trisquel 12 "Ecne".
You may notice this isn't the usual cdbuilds.trisquel.org URL; Rubén is currently unavailable for personal reasons, so I'll be using an alternative location for this one.
Download: https://devel.switnet.org/test-isos/
To keep the release train moving, please help test these images. If we don't find any blockers, this could be the final beta; we'd then aim for an RC1 later this month, bringing us closer to the final release.
Please note, if you feel uncomfortable downloading ISOs from an "alternative/unofficial" site, please wait 'til next ISO set.
With your feedback and reports, we're on track to ship T12 in 2025. Thank you to everyone who has been testing and reporting, your work is bringing Trisquel 12.0 (Ecne) to the finish line.
Please keep the feedback coming while we wrap up.
Every release is our best one yet, and Ecne is proof of that.
Best regards,
Luis Guzmán
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Thanks for this new set of isos. I tried the netinstaller and the default installer, both on real hardware, using the default LVM with ciphering installation, I did not notice any issue so far.
The outcome with the net installer or the default installer looks nearly identical, the main difference I noticed is that, when booting Trisquel setup with the netinstaller, I am asked to enter the deciphering passphrase in text mode on a black screen, with an English sentence (although I installed in French), while when booting Trisquel setup with the default installer, this is an empty box in a graphical screen with a locker icon.
One thing I was wondering about: how to activate orca for installation? Asking because I can't remember so I did not try it. Besides, on a laptop with 1920x1080 default resolution on a 14 inch display, with the graphical installer, the text is so small that it is hardly readable. There is no such problem with the netinstaller. I don't know whether there is a way to increase font sizes or modify resolution for the graphical installer.
I also tried the arm64 netinstaller on a rockpro64 on which I installed u-boot in the SPI flash. There is nothing on a display connected on HDMI but with a serial connection (I have the serial-USB adapter sold by Pine64), I see the installation menu and can start the installation. Unfortunately, at the step to detect the ethernet card, it says it could not detect it and gives me a list of cards to choose between, none of which is RTL8211F as I can see on the rockpro64 board. I tried a number of options but it did not work, so I am stuck there.
EDIT: I forgot: I also tried the triskel installer in a VM, I did not notice any issue.
> the deciphering passphrase in text mode on a black screen, with an English sentence (although I installed in French)
AFAICT, at that point there is no "installation" everything is running from initramfs and some basic busybox. I don't think it has l10n support, that's one of the reasons I added a splash patch, so you get prompted with the graphical (no text) box for the passphrase. So there is no need to read.
> One thing I was wondering about: how to activate orca for installation?
About Orca, it changes if you are using BIOS or UEFI.
On BIOS, right after the ISO boots, select the language then F5 > Screen Reader, then launch live image or installer and it should have Orca enabled.
On UEFI you can't "pre-setup", you just need to boot the DE and at least in GNOME / MATE you should be able to enable with
Super + Alt + S
That should enable Orca on your DE.
Finally about SBC, I have no access to such model, so not much to add on that regard.
FWIW, successful installation on a ppc64el Talos Raptor II Lite machine:
https://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-devel/2025-September/001380.html
Yay, well done!
I tried to install using the net installer iso with expert install option. Later in disk partitioning, I chose manual partitioning. The installation failed at "install grub bootloader" stage during installation. I think it tried to run the command "grub install dummy" and obviously failed. Also, at that stage, the questions referred the system as Debian.
Once that failed, I tried to install using normal "install" option of the installer. This time installation also failed when installer downloading necessary packages for desktop environment.
Finally, I could install the system using trisquel amd64 isos.
(On a side note, I was expecting net installer iso to give me choice of installing Trisquel with XFCE4 desktop at taskel stage. But there was no such options.)
> I think it tried to run the command "grub install dummy" and obviously failed.
Thanks for the report. If this was a UEFI install, that message typically appears when the installer didn't detect/select a valid EFI System Partition or fell back to an older grub-installer path, by any chance did you used archive.trisquel.org as the install repo?
Could you try again and share the lines of /var/log/syslog (while on the installer) when the error happens or the content of the /var/log/installer/syslog (if you finished the installation with the netinstall).
That might give us a clue about the issue. It sounds like an old bug; I wonder why it would still be present on your installation.
> I was expecting net installer iso to give me choice of installing Trisquel with XFCE4 desktop at taskel stage. But there was no such options.
At the moment the net-installer only exposes the environments we support via tasksel:
- MATE
- KDE
- LXDE
- GNOME
XFCE isn’t listed there, but you can install it after the base system (trisquel-console), e.g.
sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
For common (desktop) system tools and a web browser you can add to the mix (e.g.):
trisquel-desktop-common abrowser
Regards.
> If this was a UEFI install, [...]
Yes, it was an UEFI install.
> [...] by any chance did you used archive.trisquel.org as the install repo?
I tried with both archive.trisquel.info and archive.trisquel.org (the default) and location of the mirror as United States.
> Could you try again and share the lines of /var/log/syslog (while on the installer) when the error happens or the content of the /var/log/installer/syslog (if you finished the installation with the netinstall).
I've attached the file.
> XFCE isn’t listed there, but you can install it after the base system (trisquel-console), [...]
Thanks.
| Adjunto | Tamaño |
|---|---|
| trisquel-12-debug.txt | 605.57 KB |
This is the syslog when I choose normal install (and not "expert install"). This time also it got stuck at install packages step but after I tried 2-3 times, it succeeded. After that, it failed at install grub stage as before.
| Adjunto | Tamaño |
|---|---|
| trisquel-12-normal.txt | 660.86 KB |
The same error occurs though:
Sep 15 10:20:17 grub-installer: grub-install: error: cannot copy `/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/core.efi' to `/boot/efi/EFI/trisquel/grubx64.efi': No space left on device.
Are you manually setting up your partitions table?
Maybe try to assign more space to /boot/efi
On a 512GB disk I'm using 512MB and 2GB for /boot should be more than enough in case you install multiple kernels (standard, hwe, linux-libre, etc.)
Regards.
I installed Trisquel 11 successfully with the Net installer. One difference I noticed when doing manual partitioning is EFI partition is set as bootable, and installer wouldn't let me set bootable flag on /boot partition.
Whereas, in trisquel 12 installation I would set /boot partion as bootable, and not EFI partion. Perhaps this is the possible reason of failure?
In all of the cases I was giving /boot/efi 512 MiB and /boot as 2 GiB ext4. So size doesn't seem to be an issue.
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According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Partitioning#Example_layouts:
UEFI booting does not involve any "boot" flag, booting relies solely on the boot entries in NVRAM. Parted and its front-ends use a "boot" flag on GPT to indicate that a partition is an EFI system partition..
I am not so sure I understand the second sentence. Does it mean that parted and its front-end do not say that a partition is an EFI partition, but just show a (fake) boot flag on it?
Another thing I recall: when trying to do manual partitioning (can't remember if it was the netinstaller or the default installer), I had not created any BIOS partition (but I had /boot and EFI although the archwiki says that there is no use having a boot partition if you have EFI) and then the installer said if failed to installed GRUB. After I created a BIOS partition, the installer was ok to install GRUB.
Does it mean that parted and its front-end do not say that a partition is an EFI partition, but just show a (fake) boot flag on it?
I believe it means GNU parted label the EFI system partition (ESP) with "boot", but that makes no difference. What identifies a partition as an ESP is its partition type (GU)ID.
> I believe it means GNU parted label the EFI system partition (ESP) with "boot" [...]
Yes, you're right that's what I meant. In Trisquel 11 net installer parted showed:
EFI System partition has a bootable flag (the letter "B" beside partition details in parted). I then created a /boot partition with 2 GB, ext4, and when I tried to set the bootable flag in this partition, parted wouldn't do it. So I moved on and created other partitions.
While in Trisquel 12 net installer parted showed:
EFI System partition with no bootable (B) flag. I then created 2GB, ext4 /boot partition, and tried to set bootable flag in this partition (/boot). This time parted showed that bootable flag had been set. Then I moved on to do other partitions.
Hope, this makes things clear.
Hello again,
What happens if you do automatic partition?
Does it completes the installation?
Regards
> What happens if you do automatic partition? Does it completes the installation?
There's an error in the "select and install software" step when I choose Mate desktop, but grub installs successfully. When I boot into the newly installed system, there is no graphical environment. I think the step failed because of the following errors:
Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: Err:721 http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel ecne-updates/main amd64 python3-samba amd64 2:4.19.5+dfsg-4ubuntu9.3 Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: Hash Sum mismatch Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: Hashes of expected file: Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - SHA512:f7672353d9b6c16d5bbbd50e90d09790ef4e6350c9333295549f5f70f3e432bfbcba3e2e7c97756a19c3d81c4800e1707409857385ea6df4464289305fd5161f Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - SHA256:a08583ce49e964708c1dd41ddab294172f2435d2b0350111651fea5ec20a214b Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - SHA1:eba4dea3e5ca5636cec512ce19ba9a00c996de67 [weak] Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - MD5Sum:0fece588805fa108e099b48a866179bd [weak] Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - Filesize:2894958 [weak] Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: Hashes of received file: Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - SHA512:b29993031499e5898aefd15bc274bb95b49887f01cd19d19566816cb11ed7748bd0b6b2e2161b10b934467ffe29d70b090a87384fd0bdefe35bed2130d38a6da Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - SHA256:013eeaa5ba2f16c60cb1f04d875a1f602cdbabd0a9a1c4b3db4cd602d70ca0bf Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - SHA1:39eddcda85de5c03b11ce40ab7875c93176a4772 [weak] Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - MD5Sum:729353710f30853636088340f7e80e4a [weak] Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: - Filesize:2894958 [weak] Sep 17 08:06:07 in-target: Last modification reported: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:52:58 +0000
There are other packages that also fails to install because of this hash sum mismatch.
The above error in "Select and Install Software" step doesn't happen if I choose Trisquel Mini, and I do get a graphical environment.
T12 Beta 3 (amd64): Successfully installed on a Lenovo ThinkPad L15 (Intel).
Great job!!