Very slow download/install of images lately

procount / pinn

An enhanced Operating System installer for the Raspberry Pi

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Very slow download/install of images lately #740

Open 89carrot opened 1 year ago

89carrot commented 1 year ago

Good Day,

I've been trying to install directly or download for offline both LibreElec and Batocera for a dual boot setup. Rpi4 8gb.

LibreElec in particular seems extremely slow where the download just stops.

Would there be an alternate source for these files or is there an issue with the repository?

Thank you

grozzle commented 1 year ago

Same. I'm getting an estimate of about two days to download.

procount commented 1 year ago

Both are hosted by their respective maintainers so I have no control over that.

Tinkerer555 commented 1 year ago

I've been having the same issue. Pinn downloads are taking days rather than minutes/hours and are freezing part way through. There also seems to be no functioning way to just load images into pinn locally. And it's not any one system. It is every system I've tried so far. Including RasPiOS, Ubuntu, retropi, recallbox, minimist builds, etc.

procount commented 1 year ago

I am not experiencing these issues. Most of the OSes are stored on Sourceforge. It could be that it is choosing the wrong (i.e. slow) mirrors for your location. Which country are you in? I am thinking about adding a feature to allow the selection of mirrors, if that is possible, but that may be a way off. PINN can download the "images" to a USB for local installation (see README_PINN.md), but it will use the same mirrors so it probably won't be any quicker. Alternatively you can download the OSes from Sourceforge directly (e.g. https://sourceforge.net/projects/pinn/files/os/) to a suitably formatted USB drive using your browser (where you can select an appropriate mirror) , and then install them locally from there.

matthewruzzi commented 1 year ago

Could you also host the OS downloads on GitHub releases as an alternate download option?

lucamoura commented 9 months ago

I'm having a similar issue. At the moment 'Wrintten' appears initially, the speed starts around 9.5MB/sec but gradually decreases to 0.9 and keeps decreasing until it stops. I have PINN OS installed on an SSD via USB 3.0 on a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB. Simply, from 40%, the remaining time just keeps increasing.