Fwd: [Lubuntu-admins] 15.04 - Installation Experience

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2015-04-29 14:48, Israel skrev:
> On 04/29/2015 06:30 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> ...
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Hi,
> These tests really do make me think it is the issue with how isolinux
> has changed.
> I had issues using isolinux in a chroot on 14.10 because in 14.10 files
> are missing.  The entire structure is different.
> So probably the USB creator programs are having problems because they
> also cannot figure out isolinux.
> This seems to me the real problem.
> 
> The unetbootin devs probably figured this out, and fixed it in their
> program.
> 
> Nio, if you are on 14.04 do you have 'proposed' enabled?  There might be
> something in the pipeline to fix this issue.
> 

Hi Israel,

I think this bug (1325801) is fixed for the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator
- in 15.04. At least it is announced as fixed. Probably the bug-fix will
trickle down to 14.10 and 14.04.3 LTS. But right now it is not there in
14.04.2 LTS. I have not enabled proposed - but you are right, the
bug-fix might be available there.

Best regards
Nio