Not sure I grasp where you are, what your hardware is like, and what you
consider successful.
Let me say that another way. I suspect you are trying to install Qubes OS in
conjunction with some other OS on the same computer.
I view the install of Qubes. Qubes prefers to be the sole occupant of the
computers hard drive. Other means of installing Qubes are more difficult.
Like trying to have more than one OS on the same computer is problematic.
Let me guess you have one OS (like Windows or Linux) and the installer you are
using is Rufus or Balena Etcher? Which installs to like a USB key. One
would not install Qubes from one hard drive partition to another Partition on
the same drive. Not saying it is not possible, just more difficult than I
understand how to accomplish.
Then one would boot from that USB key, which has Qubes on it. Qubes on the USB
key has its own installer which would prefer to clobber whatever you have on
the hard drive and write itself onto that hard drive (preferably a SSD).
Anyway. You may trying to do something more clever than I know about.
So if what I write only reveals my ignorance, and is of no help. Please tell
us the Installer you are using.
Perhaps. Consider - How Qubes achieves it’s Security. First it wants to
protect itself from interference from other programs, as much as possible. So
it installs ‘bare metal’. It wants to install a Xen Hypervisor directly on the
hard drive. The Qubes installer (The installer that gets started after one
boots Qubes that is on the USB) will want to install it’s own boot sector on
the drive. It will offer to encrypt the hard drive and wants you to give it a
password for the encryption. It took me a few trials to get the partition to
where the installer was happy. Something about clicking on manual. Recovering
space. Then pick options where it will install several different Qubes with
different OS’s in them. Like Fedora. Debian. Whonix. Someplace in the
install the installer will want you to give it an account name and a login
password. Takes awhile for the Qubes installer to run.
Each of the Qubes which are initially installed will run as a secure virtual
machine, running on top of the Xen Hypervisor. So other software on the
computer might cause a security problem which the creators of Qubes might not
expect and thereby prevent.
I apologize to OP if I am actually not being useful. There are other
variations to doing the install. I just took what I thought was the most direct
to getting Qubes onto my computer. Making it the sole occupant of the hard
drive. Actually. I used an external DVD and burned a DVD of the Qubes iso I
downloaded and installed from that.
Keep in mind. No matter how careful you are. You can lose all the other info
on the computer you are trying to install to. Back that up. Preferably
several times before starting on this adventure.
And someone more knowledgeable will soon come along and tell you why I am
wrong.
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