Need to install Ubuntu via USB

[Scott]

Loïc Grenié wrote:
> 2008/11/14 Scott <slewin at bmts.com>:
>> The CD drive in my wife's laptop is broken, so I only have the option to
>> install through USB and I have had nothing but severe problems.  I tried
>> with both a 8.04.1 disk and a iso with "create a usb startup disk" and
>> got the same outcome, a busybox shell prompt when trying to boot on the
>> USB drive.
> 
>     There may be an error hidden by the initramfs. Try to type
> 
> cat /casper.log
> 
>   at the busybox prompt, the last line(s) should contain the error
>   (if there is one).
> 
>      Hope this helps,
> 
>         Loïc Grenié
> 
I did it and there was errors.

there are 11 lines of this
/init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/hda: No medium found

And there is a few lines of
stdin: error 0

and a few lines of the same cannot open but refering to /dev/sdb and 
/dev/sdb1 instead

I am not totally sure what this means, but I think it may have trouble 
finding the hard drive.  How would that cause a problem with a live disk?

the last two lines, which may be the most important, says:
mount: Mounting /dev/loop1 on /cow failed: Invalid argument
Can not mount /dev/loop1 on /cow


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Your friend,
Scott
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