[Bug 260672] Re: Can't install from USB pendrive
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 234185 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234185 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 104113 Installer does not properly detect USB CDROM ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 234185 Alternate CD cdrom-detect.postinst does not consider USB flash drive/key. * You can subscribe to bug 234185 by following this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrom-detect/+bug/234185/+subscribe -- Can't install from USB pendrive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 260672] Re: Can't install from USB pendrive
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 104113 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104113 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 104113 Installer does not properly detect USB CDROM -- Can't install from USB pendrive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 260672] Re: Can't install from USB pendrive
there is now a tool called USB startup disk creator available in ubuntu that automates all the needed work here; and it works perfectly fine. I tried using the UNETBOOTIN approach, but it produced a version which ran into many of the problems listed above by Jan. This was with the latest ubuntu release available at this time which is ubuntu 9.04. The problem is in UNETBOOTIN in that it is not doing all the necessary stuff to enable the USB version to work seamlessly. There is nothing to be fixed in debian-installer per se if the USB creator method works just fine (assuming it does not apply binary patches to the debian-installer components :) -- Can't install from USB pendrive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 260672] Re: Can't install from USB pendrive
I have tried both jaunty-alpha6 alternate x86 and intrepid alternate x86 images. usb-creator (intrepid deb installed on hardy) made a stick that said no operating system or operating system errors on a dell optiplex 760. unetbootin made a stick that booted. Both jaunty and intrepid ISOs have these problems: 1. /dev/sde1 the USB stick is not mounted on /cdrom, and cd rom detection fails, refusing to continue. Manually doing mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /cdrom and going through the steps again at just the right place mounting in an alternate console, allows one to continue. Giving /dev/sde1 to cdrom-detect as the device does NOT work. I think it is JUST after that when I have to go mount it in a console. 2. Install components fails as unetbootin made dists/release/stable,unstable 0-sized files, not symlinks to intrepid (vfat limitation??). Doing rm stable mv intrepid stable allows one to continue. For some reason making a symlink there gives permission denied. 2. on jaunty x86 alpha6 alternate, pool/p/pcmcia*udeb is misnamed .ude, with a missing b at the end. Rename to continue. 3. after partitioning, once reaching install base system, you get deboostrap error: failed to determine codename for release, another bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/311792 and a forum comment here that this is due to the cdrom mounting in (1) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=277137#6 This forum member had the same problem on intrepid live and hardy: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1008015.html I'm still solving #6, I'd like to just have a debconf command or extract iso-scan.udeb and run the right script. mkdir iso-scan dpkg -e iso-scan.udeb iso-scan/ gives me a postinst in which I find: # This assumes that there will be no more than one distribution on # the CD, and that one of the testing, stable, or unstable links will # point to it. Since the CDs currently have many links, parse the # Release file to get the actual suite name to use. # Prefer the suite in default-release. for dir in $(cat /etc/default-release) $(ls -1 /cdrom/dists/); do relfile=/cdrom/dists/$dir/Release which is a problem since I moved intrepid to stable in that dists dir as symlinks didn't work. I'm going to try start earlier in the process with a symlink /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to /dev/sde1 because maybe it will mount and the iso-scan will happen before I have to move intrepid to stable to load installer components. -- Can't install from USB pendrive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 260672] Re: Can't install from USB pendrive
Symlinks (/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 - /dev/sde1) does not work on vfat. I have extracted iso-scan.postinst and put it in the top of the usb stick to run manually. Doing so gives modprobe error module loop not found. I commented out that line and ran the rest immediately after , but the debootstrap error still shows up. I will have to go through that postinst more carefully. and try to set Suite and Codename manually in there, and run all the necessary commands without all the probing and testing and mounting, as I know what the device is in this case. -- Can't install from USB pendrive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 260672] Re: Can't install from USB pendrive
OK, I got further with solving the problem, it seems to work now. Steps I did: - make a vfat -F 16 onto the USB stick - syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1 (sdx = USB stick) - copy the contents of the alternate CD to the stick as close as possible, including the hidden .disk directory (I used tar) - copy the isolinux/isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg - Since the vfat does not support symlinks the dists directory can't be used that way by the installation procedure, it does not find the symlink stable - hardy . Thus, go to dists and mv hardy stable - boot from stick until the error message of the missing CDROM comes (red screen) - open shell with ctrl-F2 - mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /cdrom (or whereever the USB stick is found) - proceed with installation -- Can't install from USB pendrive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 260672] Re: Can't install from USB pendrive
OK, it works that way: USB stick needs two partitions. first is a small vfat with copies of the boot files from the CDROM (isolinux, install,.., but not the dists). copy install/isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg and run syslinux.cfg second partition is = 720 MB. copy the CDROM blockwise (dd ...) into that second partition. boot the usb stick. It will complain that it does not find the CDROM. continue and skip the option to load additional drivers. It will ask to manually enter the CDROM device. Use the second console to determine the device path of the partition (e.g. /dev/sdb2) and enter. works. :-) -- Can't install from USB pendrive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
