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
