OK it worked thanks to all of you. You were all right. A combination of weird small errors with hardware and sum packages that weren't installed on Ubuntu...
Firstly I installed isomd5sum. It now checks the USB... Despite my earlier attempts, and the fact that the stick was working when I first tried (with 0.5.0), and that it appeared fine in partition editor, files visible etc, there WAS a USB hardware problem - a bad fragment that persisted. I tried with another USB stick, simply formatted FAT using a Windows machine which left it already bootable, and YES it all works. No errors with mkusbinstall and booting up nicely into anaconda etc. HOWEVER - the installation fails right at the end when performing post-installation config - installing bootloader: An unhandled exception occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save a copy of the detailed exception and the bug report against anaconda at your distribution provided bug reporting tool I think this IS a hardware problem, it is reproducible. Any ideas? David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Alternative email address: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, 16 February 2009 3:35 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: 'Martin Langhoff'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails You got Input/Output error during cp read of /media/cdtmp.Rf6276, which I guess is the loopback mounted ISO 9660 file system image. The most common cause of this is truncation of the image, especially if the files on which it occurs are near the end of the image. checkisomd5 is missing. Install it from package isomd5sum on Ubuntu. There may be other tools missing. Use script command to capture all the output as text, so we can have another look. -- James Cameron mailto:[email protected] http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
