** Description changed: We have had support for USB devices that contain the contents of an ISO being used as installation media for the alternate CD since Intrepid. Recently it has come to my attention that server users want this feature for servers that do not have a CDROM drive and are not installed using PXE. I've uploaded a new debian-installer-utils and cdrom-detect to hardy- proposed which will enable the following test case. TEST CASE: - 1. Put the contents of an Ubuntu 8.04.4 image on a USB disk using usb-creator. Other tools can be used to do this, but you need to make sure you add 'cdrom-detect/try-usb=true' to the kernel command line. + 1. Put the contents of an Ubuntu 8.04.4 alternate or server image on a USB disk using usb-creator. Other tools can be used to do this, but you need to make sure you add 'cdrom-detect/try-usb=true' to the kernel command line. 2. Boot the USB disk and proceed with the installation. It should progress without complaining that it cannot find the installation media. - - - Original report: I wrote a script to copy all the files from Hardy Heron (08.04) Live CD and Alternate CD to a USB flash drive. The Live CD works flawlessly. However, the Alternate CD fails to mount the "cdrom". This is because cdrom-detect.postinst does not try to look for disk partitions. By adding `list-devices partition` in the list of devices to probe, and by adding an additional mount command for vfat, I managed to get the Alternate CD working from a USB flash drive. Attached, a patch to fix the issue. Please consider introducing this fix soon and release a new Alternate CD with it. I plan to make my script available and it would be nice to have a proper working Alternate CD for USB flash drives. Users should not have to mess with initrd to get this working. P.S.: If you have a suggestion about a good place to make this script public, please write to me in an email. Also, my solution partially resolves: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16/ I have USB images of 1G which can be `dd` to a USB flash drive. [ keywords: alternate cd usb flash key stick pen pendrive drive ]
-- Alternate CD cdrom-detect.postinst does not consider USB flash drive/key. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234185 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
