Trouble remastering a LiveCD

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 25 15:21:14 CDT 2005


On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:16:07PM -0700, Rented Mule wrote:
> "Non-Ubuntu CD-Rom detected.
> The CD-ROM drive contains a non-Ubuntu CD.
> Please insert the Ubuntu CD to continue with the
> installation"
[...]
> cp -R /mnt/cdrom/* .

That's your mistake; because * doesn't match hidden files (those
starting with a dot), you're missing the .disk directory from the
original CD image, which is necessary to make the installer recognise
the CD as a valid installation CD. Copy that over as well and all should
be well.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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