Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
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I was running into this same issue with the 10.10 Alternate using a 2GB
Flash Voyager on my Dell Studio XPS. However, it works fine using my 16
GB Patriot XT. Both were created using the Setup Disk Creator v
0.2.22.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.
One difference I noticed is that the Flash Voyager drive didn'
@Andrew Henry: the issue is that some udeb files in the Ubuntu alternate
iso have more than 64-character filenames, but unfortunately they are
truncated to 64 characters (and hence can't be found by the installer)
because 7-zip, which is used by UNetbootin for extracting iso files,
doesn't support
It seems to me that the bug still exists only if the USB media is
created with Unetbootin, with "Startup disk creator" the image works
fine, I didn't add any string on boot. Andrew can you try to do the same
thing but this time with "Startup disk creator"?
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This still fails for me on 10.10 alternate amd64. I used Ubootin to
create the USB image, Im adding cdrom-detect/try-usb=true and it doesn't
complain about not finding the cdrom, but when it starts to copy if says
there was a problem reading the cdrom and that it failed to copy a file.
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Not completely fixed in all versions of 10.10 (at least server CD is
still afflicted as of today's daily buiild of the RC) , but since
everything is marked as resolved here, perhaps it would be best to
transition to this existing open bug that isn't focused on alternate CD:
Bug 582427.
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I would like to confirm Ubuntu 10.10 Alternate RC i386 iso works fine
for me.
I've created the usb pendrive with the "Startup Disk Creator". I was
able to boot it and I was able to install a working system.
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I think it's fixed in 10.10.
10.10 Alternate beta i386 works fine for me from a usb stick.
I haven't tried server version yet.
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Same here, still a problem in 10.04. Installing from usb needs work.
Ubuntu is too fixated on optical media.
I put Ubuntu Server 10.04 (amd64) on a 1G usb flash drive. This is for
installation on a netbook with an Atom N450 and without a CD drive.
Just getting Ubuntu Server on the flash drive wa
I also tried this solution, always on lucid alternate, but didn't work:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrom-
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I can confirm it's still reproductable on lucid alternate, I've tried
adding "cdrom-detect/try-usb=true" on boot but nothing changed.
Then I tried another solution that was successful on 9.04 (didn't remember the
exact syntax, but something like this, the idea was to mount the key itself
into th
Still reproducable on lucid alternate CD even with cdrom-detect/try-
usb=true set
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I'm still seeing this bug on the 9.10 alternative cd, even with cdrom-
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This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer-utils - 1.50ubuntu4
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I've confirmed this fix for hardy. I wrote a copy of the 8.04.4
candidate server ISO to a USB stick using the lucid version of usb-
creator, then booted it editing the kernel commandline to remove 'cdrom-
detect/try-usb=true' and confirmed that the installer failed when
looking for the CD. Then I
** 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
The USB approach is STILL not working properly.
I've tested it with 9.04 Server and with 9.10 Server, Both keep complaining
about CD-ROM even when booted from a USB stick.
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Accepted cdrom-detect into hardy-proposed, the package will build now
and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!
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- 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 C
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Milestone: None => ubuntu-8.04.4
** Also affects: cdrom-detect (Ubuntu Hardy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Well blow me over.
I re-did the usb-creator due to the above thread's insights.
Apparantly the first time I did this some files were corrupted or the disk
didn't sync properly.
The jaunty-alternate-amd64-alpha-6 now boots OK and cdrom-detects works great.
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Hi
I am using a hardy desktop with an intrepid usb-creator deb.
It installed without complaint.
ii usb-creator0.1.10 Ubuntu USB desktop image creator
I've made a jaunty-alpha6 alternate x86 iso onto a stick with usb-creator which
did not boot
at all. The dell optiplex 760 said no op
intel,
Sorry I missed your earlier comment. Please open a new bug against
cdrom-detect. Put `set -x` at the top of
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cdrom-detect.postinst before that code runs and attach
/var/log/syslog after the machine starts to hang.
Thanks
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I'm not sure why you reopened the usb-creator task. The bug is clearly fixed
there, given the reports here and elsewhere. However, if using USB creator to
create an alternate USB disk is not working for you, please file a new bug.
If you take issue with the functionality being disabled
Well that was long winded - I downloaded the standard desktop image, cut
a CD from it and booted another PC live, then used USB-Creator to make
an alternative boot key that actually worked and doesn't fail at detect-
cd roms.
Surely it shouldn't be that hard to get the alternative CD to work as a
The Alternate CD needs to be booted with cdrom-detect/try-usb=true as a
boot option. usb-creator automcatically adds this.
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May I suggest that someone build a USB key with 08.10, then dd an image
and make it available for downloading? Canonical should do this. This
way users get out of the chicken and the egg trap.
This assuming of course that one can dd from one model of USB key to
another if there is enough space.
The point of unetbootin (or isotostick.sh) is that you run them on your
current o/s (or even windows) to create a key that can install any
other. Isn't usb-creator an intrepid tool? If I had intrepid
successfully installed somewhere, I could try it - although my
understanding from the forums was
Neil, I don't know what unetbootin is, but please try the usb-creator,
which is officially supported.
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I've just used unetbootin (latest - 292 I think) to burn the 8.10
release alternate CD to a USB key and I can confirm that the installer
cannot proceed past the "Detect CDROM" stage. I'm giving up for now and
using 8.10 Desktop, but this means that I can't use full-disk encryption
(a requirement f
also
$ usb-creator --version
gives
0.1.8
While synaptic confirms that the package version is indeed 0.1.10
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Reopening & confirming this bug in the 8.10 Release
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This bug is still reproducible in Ubuntu 8.10 Release
Tested with usb-creater v0.1.8
with ubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso, (ISO's MD5sum checks out)
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* Try to find an Ubuntu image on every CD device, not just the first
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Testing with a bogus CD and an Ubuntu USB disk inserted was successful.
There was no double mount.
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Untested patch. This will give USB disks precedence over CDs and search
all inserted CDs for an Ubuntu image, failing with cdrom-detect/wrong-cd
if none of the inserted CDs contain a valid CD image. Previously,
cdrom-detect would go to cdrom-detect/wrong-cd on the first CD it could
mount, rather
As discussed on #ubuntu-installer:
17:29:46 < evand> hrm, cdrom-detect/ask-usb fails to account for the situation
where you have a CD in the drive as well
*snip*
17:34:13 < evand> Right now I have an Ubuntu image on USB stick plugged in and
a Windows drivers CD inserted into the computer.
17:34:4
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* Properly notify that the the user needs to insert a
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The .iso case needs to be handled by iso-scan in the hd-media initrds
(that's its whole purpose!), not by cdrom-detect. USB media creation
software needs to be aware of that.
However, I don't think this is a priority for usb-creator. It is much
more urgent for us to get it working *at all* than to
Hi, I'm struggling with booting Ubuntu 8.10 Beta (Alternate) from
USBdisk which I created via UNetbootin 282.
I have read throu this tread and have a proposl that might sove your
problem with multiple detected cdroms. I vote for scanning all media
(cd-drives aswell as usb-devices) and if more than
cdrom-detect accepted, closing this task.
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Evan, could you arrange to have usb-creator pass cdrom-detect/try-
usb=true for alternate CDs? (It's harmless for desktop CDs, in case it's
hard for usb-creator to tell the difference.) That should be the last
piece of this bug.
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I've merged Tormod's patch (with a small change to debian/changelog),
and uploaded it. It'll be usable after the first debian-installer upload
after beta.
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Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
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Tormod,
It appears to be an iso problem. I burned the iso to cdrom at home, and
it fails to detect the cdrom also. The md5 hash checks out on the iso,
but I'm going to redownload and retest anyway.
So my issue may not be relevant to this bug. I'll report back any
relevant results.
Harvey
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I forgot to say that you have to boot with the boot parameter
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Tormod,
Sorry about the noise. I wrongly assumed that "fix released" meant that
it was.
I replaced cdrom-detect.postinst in the initrd using the file identified
above, but I still get the "Incorrect CD-ROM detected" error message
when attempting any of the options.
I'll repeat the test this eve
Harvey, the code mentioned here hasn't been released yet. But it would
be great if you could take the time to try it out. Basically you'll need
the debian/cdrom-detect.postinst file from
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/cdrom-detect/usb-drive-
install/files and replace the one in your init
Attempted iso qa testing on the 20080930.4 amd64 alternate iso, and the
usb flashdrive was not detected as a valid cd-rom device.
All installation attempts fail, including "Check CD for Defects."
Currently unable to test the iso with an actual cd as I do not have any
available at the moment. But
Well, my approach was to treat CDs and USB removables in as much as
possible the same way. But I guess that will need interface changes and
rewrites to be perfect. And with Intrepid Beta around the corner this is
not going to happen now.
I made a new revision, where I included the cdrom-detect/try
(I agree, by the way, that the two-CD-drives situation is a problem; I'm
just not convinced that this is quite the right way to fix it, and would
rather fix one thing at a time where possible.)
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I really prefer Tormod's option 2: make this controlled by a boot
option, please. usb-creator can then set that.
Hans, you may laugh at the notion that more than one thing that looks
like an installable CD image may be available, but I'm not just making
this up to be awkward; *this really does hap
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We can now apply a slightly modified version of Hans' original patch:
add "list-devices usb-partition" and probe devices using vfat in
addition to iso9660. See http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tormodvolden
/cdrom-detect/usb-drive-install/revision/428
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Looking closer at cdrom-detect (which probably would need to be replaced
by something like "detect-media") is that it does not iterate through
devices. It really assumes there is one CD available. It just picks the
first that satisfies a rough "cdrom" criteria, and then goes on to
verify that singl
I vote for option 1) all the time. We do not need a 100% foolproof
solution because lets face it, how many people will have two sources of
installation on a system? I cannot imagine why someone would put two
install USBs or two CDs on a system at the same time. However,
installation should be do
Hans, one problem is that the installer initrd has no idea whether is
was booted from a USB drive or not, so the question whether to just scan
for USB automatically can not be based on this. On the other hand, I
don't see that it can do much harm to scan all USB devices anyway.
cdrom-detect already
As a first step, I suggest to extend list-devices() with a "usb-
partition" option which returns only partitions on USB drives. See
https://code.launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/debian-installer-utils/usb-
drive-install
Now debian/cdrom-detect.postinst can use this option either 1) all the
time or 2) w
If it does not support the alternate CD, then my script would remain
useful. I will not test Intrepid (no time to play around) and continue
to stick with 08.04.b
Regardless, all should be plug & play. The user should not be prompted
to scan for USB if a USB key has been used for the installation
The best would maybe be if the installer, after not finding a real CD,
would ask if it should scan USB drives as well. Anyway, I think support
for install from USB devices is very useful. There are many PC's without
CD drives (for instance the recent netbooks) and burning CDs (and using
USB CD driv
Hans, regarding your script, there is a new package usb-creator in
Intrepid which should do the job. I don't know if it works with
Alternate CDs yet. I guess cdrom-detect would need to be patched if usb-
creator is going to work as well.
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Tromod, your solution is obviously the best. Check for a file specific
to the installation image that is expected to be found only on the
/cdrom device if it has been mounted from a USB device.
And if someone has a VFAT32 /cdrom with a copy of a valid installation
image on their hard drive, then
Couldn't these issues be solved by simply checking for a matching
.disk/info, like casper does?
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Colin, your comment is valid. However, my patch tries to mount /cdrom
as vfat or iso9660. The likelihood that /cdrom on a hard disk exist as
vfat is remote. The likelihood that /cdrom exist on another USB stick
you are trying to install is also remote. How many users will be burned
by this?
If
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I don't think this patch is appropriate as it stands. You have to be
careful not to mount a partition from the hard disk. Remember that
cdrom-detect is used on regular Ubuntu CDs too. Let's say a normal from-
CD Ubuntu installation happened to encounter a partition on the hard
disk that happened to
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I initiated contact with the developers of the
"https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/usb-installation-images";
project (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/usb-installation-
images). Let see where it brings me too.
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Thank you for your work! However, the changes you are requesting really
require more of a discussion, which should be done on an appropriate
mailing list or forum. [WWW]
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good
start for determining which mailing list to use.
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