installing from USB (again)

[Gustin Johnson]

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altern wrote:

> 
> funny because i took it from help.ubuntu.com so it should be very
> ubuntu-like.
> The docs are here, the section called "Mounting the USB stick as /cdrom"
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
> 

You mean the part where the first line says:

"This step is only needed for the Alternate install CD and Ubuntu 6.10
or older."

Unless this statement is grammatically incorrect (the "and" might need
to be an "or"), you should not need to do this.

Anyway, this is IMO a needlessly complicated procedure.  It is creating
a sym link from the actual device (eg. /dev/sdb1) to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
then mounting the symlink /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to /cdrom

You could just do
mount /dev/sdb1 /cdrom

Verify with df -Th

I will have to try this at some point, since I have a USB CDRom drive
that I have always used.  I would expect things to fail sooner than the
language selection.

Hth,
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