Fwd: [Lubuntu-admins] 15.04 - Installation Experience

[Leszek Lesner]

Hi Nio,

did you only tried booting the default boot entry that unetbootin creates ?
This sometimes is messed up and choosing the correct boot entry solves
this.

A method that always worked for me is dd'ing the ISO image to the USB
pendrive.
So the command
sudo dd if=/path/to/lubuntu.iso
of=/dev/<your_sdX_device_that_is_the_usb_pendrive>
copies everything to the usb pendrive.
Normally it should be less then 1 GB so that even on a 4 GB pendrive you
have the option to create a at least 2.5 GB big ext4/ext3/ext2/whatever
linux filesystem with casper-rw label. (<---this is important for the
casper persisentcy option to recognize this partition as persistent
partition)
On boot just add the
persistent
bootoption to the default boot option by pressing TAB and adding it to
the commandline.
This should get you going. A persistent USB live system.

These steps are of course for advanced users. I did not test the normal
unetbootin ot startup disk creator method yet. Maybe there is some bug
in both of them somewhere.

Greetings
Leszek


Am 29.04.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Nio Wiklund:
> Den 2015-04-29 09:13, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>> Den 2015-04-28 21:26, Aere Greenway skrev:
>> ...
>>> Nio:
>>>
>>> The pendrive (USB drive) was created with unetbootin on Lubuntu 14.04
>>> (current).  The version info (from Synaptic package manager) is:
>>> 585-2ubuntu1.  I had 4000 megabytes of persistent space on it.
>>>
>>> I originally tried creating the USB drive using
>>>
>>> usb-creator-gtk
>>>
>>> but the USB drive it created did not boot, so (given the large number of
>>> times I've been 'burned' by that application), I vowed never to use it
>>> again.
>>>
>>> If the problem occurs shutting down the live USB system, what package
>>> would it be against?
>>>
>>> The problem appears to be easy to reproduce.
>>>
>>> Simply create a bootable USB drive using unetbootin from an ubuntu 15.04
>>> ISO, then boot to it, and use it to install a system.  When shutting
>>> down the USB drive system, the problem will occur, and it will not boot
>>> after that.
>>>
>>> In fact, when I mount the drive on my system after that, it is mounted
>>> read-only.
>>>
>> Hi Aere,
>>
>> The first attempt failed:
>>
>> Installed Unetbootin and copied the Lubuntu 15.04 desktop 32-bit iso
>> file into a live 14.04.2 LTS system.
>>
>> Made a new MSDOS partition table and a FAT32 partition in a Sandisk
>> Cruzer 4 GB drive. Tried with maximum available file for persistence.
>>
>> The installation proceeded without hiccups, but the installed system
>> does not work. I get into Busybox and it complains that /dev/loop0 can
>> not be mounted on //filesystem.squashfs: No such device :-(
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
> The second attempt failed:
>
> I tried again with Unetbootin and a smaller file for persistence, 512
> MB. But it does not work. The USB install drive does not work, neither
> with nor without persistence activated.
>
> The third attempt failed:
>
> Still trying from a live Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS system.
>
> Used the Startup Disk Creator (with a clean FAT32 partition, automounted
> after unplugging and replugging the USB pendrive).
>
> 1 GB file size for persistence.
>
> The installation proceeded without hiccups (it was slow to create the
> persistence file). But the installed system does not work because of the
> 'gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R image' bug. Sigh :-(
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>