[Bug 1221356] Re: hd-media installer rejects official raring ISO

[Quinn Balazs]

I'd argue that having some form of decently up to date install
instructions is quite important. I'm pretty sure I can come up with a
few people to help give this a shot. Creating up to date documentation
would also limit the number of occurrences either in IRC, or here with
people starting an install method and then having it fail when they
perceived it to be a perfectly valid method. Install instructions
however are notoriously difficult to keep up to date, as it requires
pretty constant maintenance to ensure everything is still valid, the
absence of which caused the ambiguity here. I feel with a few others, we
could mostly if not entirely get it done before the betafreeze takes
effect.

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Title:
  hd-media installer rejects official raring ISO

Status in “installation-guide” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Following the Ubuntu 13.04 Installation Guide's USB install
  instructions for amd64 at https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/installation-
  guide/amd64/ch04s03.html#usb-copy-flexible doesn't work, it seems. I
  guess not many people are using the hd-media + ISO install method? The
  ISO is located and mounted successfully, then rejected due to missing
  items in the Packages file.

  What I did:

  1) Downloaded vmlinuz and initrd.gz to a USB drive from
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/

  2) Set up syslinux to boot those two

  3) Downloaded to the same flash drive ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso

  4) Booted from the flash drive.

  After the ISO is located and mounted, the installer errors out and is
  unable to proceed. The log says:

  Sep  2 17:24:55 iso-scan: ISOS_FOUND='[sdf1]
  /isos/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso (raring - 13.04)'
  Sep  2 17:24:55 iso-scan: Selected ISO:
  /isos/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso on /dev/sdf1
  Sep  2 17:24:55 kernel: [   50.033763] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft
  Joliet Level 3
  Sep  2 17:24:55 kernel: [   50.036768] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
  Sep  2 17:24:55 iso-scan: Detected ISO with 'raring' (raring) distribution
  Sep  2 17:24:55 iso-scan: Detected ISO with distribution 'raring' (raring)
  Sep  2 17:24:55 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-mirror-setup for later
  installation
  Sep  2 17:24:55 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-cdrom-setup for later
  installation
  Sep  2 17:24:55 anna-install: Queueing udeb raring-support for later
  installation
  Sep  2 17:24:55 main-menu[423]: (process:1616): libkmod:
  kmod_lookup_alias_from_builtin_file: could not open builtin file
  '/lib/modules/3.8.0-19-generic/modules.builtin.bin'
  Sep  2 17:24:55 main-menu[423]: (process:1616): [sdf1]
  isos/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso (raring - 13.04)
  Sep  2 17:24:55 main-menu[423]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package
  doesn't exist (ignored)
  Sep  2 17:24:55 main-menu[423]: INFO: Menu item 'load-iso' selected
  Sep  2 17:24:55 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
  main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages in
  /cdrom/dists/raring/Release.
  Sep  2 17:24:55 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
  main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz in
  /cdrom/dists/raring/Release.
  Sep  2 17:24:55 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
  restricted/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages in
  /cdrom/dists/raring/Release.
  Sep  2 17:24:55 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
  restricted/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz in
  /cdrom/dists/raring/Release.
  Sep  2 17:25:00 anna[3819]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
  Sep  2 17:25:00 main-menu[423]: INFO: Menu item 'load-iso' succeeded
  but requested to be left unconfigured.

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