Snakeoil Installer - 1.2.0 (Gear Isolation)

[hkphantomgtr]

I've been meaning to look into the new LTS, havn't had the time to do much snakeoil work these past weeks. Will update on my life in the progress thread.

As for HPET, can you go into the BIOS and double check if there's an option to turn this on/off?

For the HPET issue, it's pity that I've returned that fanless PC to my fd, I can't check but have asked him to look for it in CMOS.  In my current fanless PC, I've installed Snakeoil with exactly same way (i.e. ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 1.2.0 installer), there is still "HPET" option as usual.  So I believe the missed "HPET" in clocksource is related to hardware, rather than 1.2.0 installer.

And for the OS rolling, I don't mean to leave Snakeoil.  Just because currently inside my SnakeOil fanless PC got only ONE 2G NVMe SSD for both OS and music file storage.  I even disabled SATA in CMOS to save power and lower the latency, hopefully.  So, I was afraid that any problem with the OS may erase the ssd, including all my music files, during re-installation.  Then, it takes 10+ hrs to transfer music library from NAS.  

Besides, FYI, I found that on my current fanless PC, the latency of Snakeoil OS, which is from 1.2.0 installer, is a bit lower, esp. MAX value, in comparing with the one installed from previous 1.1.x.iso.   Here is the screen cap.
  

Look, as I'll receive my new NUC for SnakeOil very soon, and with these previous findings, I'll invest one new SATA SSD solely for SnakeOil OS installation.  So that I don't need to worry about erasing the local music files when trying your new SnakeOil OS, such as the new installer that works with Ubuntu 22.04 RT kernel, or the SnakeOil custom built kernel, and beyond.  I'm really excited and looking forward to them.  Just because I don't want to miss any advantage and your effort in SnakeOil OS.

BTW, a bit side track here, in my home LAN network, it's a 1G LAN network, internet speed test can reach ~9xxM/s.  And my PC can send and receive files between Synology NAS (ordinary HHD inside) at ~100M/s, also the same speed between PC and SnakeOil OS NAS.  When I use a backup software on my PC to sync the files between Synology NAS and SnakeOil NAS, then it drops to ~50M/s.  Even it's a bit disappointing, I guess it's because it's bottlenecked by receiving and sending at the same time to the PC.  Yet it's even more disappointing that, it's also only ~50M/s when it's copying files directly between Synology NAS and SnakeOil NAS.  I've mounted each others with NFS.  No matter I use the "cp" command, or "rsync" command, the speed is still ~50M/s, rather than ~100M/s.   So you guys can see, it really takes a long time to transfer 1.xG music library between 2 NAS.