** Description changed: - 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. + 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. + 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: + Also, my solution partially resolves: - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16/ + http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16/ - I have USB images of 1G which can be `dd` to a USB flash drive. + 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
