I am disappointed with your response. I clicked on the Install icon and expected it to work. At no point during the installation was there the slightest hint that installing to a USB device would not work and that I had to use the "USB Startup Disk Creator". Further, many hours spent Googling and reading forums did not reveal that option even existed. As far as I was concerned no such option existed. This whole frustration could have been avoided if either (a) the Install icon alerted users to an alternate installation method for USB devices, or (b) the "normal" install actually worked for USB devices.
At 03:02 AM 7/9/2009, you wrote: >@Richard Friday : >You have used an entirely wrong menu option for USB install. > >USB Install can be done correctly After booting from LiveCD and from >System Menu> Administration > USB Startup Disk Creator > >If you had installed it from that menu , you wouldnt have encountered >these problems. > >Further this is definately , not a papercut , since installing to USB is >not an issue with average users. > >** Changed in: hundredpapercuts > Status: New => Invalid > >-- >Poor choice of device for installing GRUB >https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389194 >You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >of the bug. > >Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid >Status in âubiquityâ package in Ubuntu: New > >Bug description: >My laptop runs Windows. But I booted up a Ubuntu >LiveCD and installed to a Flash Drive. >Surprisingly, GRUB got put onto my Windows hard >drive instead of my Flash Drive. This was >absolutely not what I'd expect, because one >reason for installing to a USB device is to be >able to have a portable Ubuntu installation. >After Googling for a while I found out that I >had to use the "Advanced" button to select a >different location for installing GRUB. > >It would be much more new-user-friendly if the >step where you choose the device on which to install Ubuntu would >(1) automatically select the device you're >installing to as the place to put GRUB >AND >(2) Output a message something like "GRUB will >be installed on <your device>. Use the "Advanced" button to specify >a different location." > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.8/2224 >- Release Date: 07/08/09 05:53:00 -- Poor choice of device for installing GRUB https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389194 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
