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[BUG]: Writing any image other than Rasbian takes an inordinate amount of time.

Open tlewis23 opened this issue 4 months ago • 3 comments

What happened?

Any image that is not Rasbian takes upwards of 2 hours to write to a NVME drive in a USB 3 enclousre. Rasbian, less than 2 minutes. Ubuntu, any flavor or version, 2 hours.

Version

1.9.6 (Default), 1.95. 1.85

What host operating system were you using?

Windows

Host OS Version

11 24H2

Selected OS

Ubuntu Server 25.04

Which Raspberry Pi Device are you using?

Raspberry Pi 4BS

What kind of storage device are you using?

USB SSD

OS Customisation

  • [x] Yes, I was using OS Customisation when the bug occurred.

Relevant log output

tlewis23 avatar Sep 10 '25 01:09 tlewis23

I wonder if this might be a network / ISP issue? Could you identify the relevant URLs in https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/os_list_imagingutility_v4.json please and try downloading them in your web-browser, to see if that also results in the Ubuntu images downloading much slower than the Raspberry Pi OS images?

lurch avatar Sep 10 '25 10:09 lurch

I can confirm this is an issue with the download links. I tried with Ubunut24 server links (for rpi4 and rp5). I'm on a 3gb fiber connection and the download is looking at 30min.

npapapietro avatar Sep 17 '25 01:09 npapapietro

I guess you need to get in touch with your ISP then?

lurch avatar Sep 17 '25 07:09 lurch