[Bug 1334816] Re: Tried to install Lubuntu on flash drive using VMware Player

[bill stewart at work]

Since this was a virtual machine (VMware Player running on a laptop),
not real hardware, I'm skeptical that memtest would report anything
useful (or at least, that it would realistically reproduce the previous
events.)  If there were actual hardware problems, most likely they'd be
bad blocks on the SDHC memory card I was using as the disk space for the
VMware.  What I did instead was to shut down most of the other stuff
running on the laptop so VMware Player could be sure of having all the
memory it wants, and reinstalling from scratch.  It seems to have worked
ok this time, though it's only running a little faster from SDHC than
from hard drive.

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Title:
  Tried to install Lubuntu on flash drive using VMware Player

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I run VMware Player on my Windows 7-64 machine.
  I downloaded the latest Lubuntu ISO.
  I tried to create a new virtual machine, storing the disk on a removable flash drive, installing Lubuntu.
  VMware Player suggested that ACE might be a better way to go (but I ignored it, because that doesn't seem to be supported on the free player.)
  Lubuntu Install started up, asked me about languages and keyboards, but during the File Copy phase it choked a couple of times, with no clear indication of why.
  At the end of the process, it handed me over to this bug reporting system.  I hope there's enough useful info (Mozilla complained about losing something when I had to reset my Launchpad password.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.18.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.340
  Date: Thu Jun 26 05:09:10 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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