Fwd: [Lubuntu-admins] 15.04 - Installation Experience

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2015-04-29 10:54, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> Den 2015-04-29 09:57, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>> 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
>>
> 
> The fourth attempt failed:
> 
> I tried with Unetbootin from my production system (Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS),
> but it failed with the same symptom.
> 
> -o-
> 
> The fifth attempt succeeded:
> 
> First I cleaned to pendrive to decrease the risk of 'gridlock'.
> -----
> sudo mkusb-nox wipe-whole-device
...
> I started to think that my iso file is bad,
> 
> b66f9a0a87289be57cb3eb84f153c01d  vivid-desktop-i386.iso
> 
> But it is good and I used mkusb-nox to flash it into the pendrive:
> 
> sudo mkusb-nox /media/multimed-2/test/lubuntu/vivid-desktop-i386.iso
...
> And the pendrive works as it should :-)
> 
> (Some of you might prefer the GUI of mkusb to the command line interface
> of mkusb-nox. But the programs do the same things behind the curtain.)
> 
> -o-
> 
> I'll try again later to make a working pendrive with Lubuntu 15.04 using
> Unetbootin and the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator ...
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 

The sixth attempt succeeded:

I installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, made it up to date, and into that system
I installed Unetbootin via the developer's ppa instead of from the
Ubuntu repository.

https://launchpad.net/~gezakovacs/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unetbootin

and Unetbootin could make a good installer pendrive with

vivid-desktop-i386.iso

Persistence file size 512 MB (I did not want to wait while a huge file
was created). Persistence works. I installed Lubuntu twice into an SSD
with the option 'Something else'. The installer system in the USB
pendrive was not damaged after the installation.

-o-

Summary:

1. mkusb just works, because it is independent of changes between
versions of the Ubuntu flavours.

2. Unetbootin works, when installed via the developer's ppa. It will
bring the version 603-1~trusty1 now. (The version in Ubuntu repositories
is not up to date.)

Best regards
Nio