How to report an installation issue?

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em segunda-feira 11 outubro 2010, Basil Chupin escreveu:
> On 11/10/2010 20:08, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > Em segunda-feira 11 outubro 2010, Basil Chupin escreveu:
> >> On 11/10/2010 18:49, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> 
> >>> I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 from a usb stick and the
> >>> following message is displayed while the system is loading:
> >>> "unable to find a medium containing a live file system"
> >>> 
> >>> The boot process does not finish. I've googled this error, but
> >>> have found only problems related to flat cables, faulty CD-ROM
> >>> drives or faulty disks, which does not apply to my usb stick. I
> >>> got this error with three different usb sticks, both with
> >>> Kubuntu 10.10 32 bits install and Ubuntu 10.10 32 bits install.
> >>> On the other hand, I can boot Ubuntu 9.10 with no problem from
> >>> the same usb sticks.
> >>> 
> >>> So, I would like to report a bug. However, how do I do that?
> >>> ubuntu-bug requires me to have the system already installed. I
> >>> could report from another system, but ubuntu-bug requires me to
> >>> inform the package where I found the error. I don't know which
> >>> program fails during installation, nor what package it belongs to
> >>> (if indeed it belongs to a package) and even if I did, it
> >>> certainly will not match the package with the same name in the
> >>> system I would use to report the bug (if the package exists in
> >>> this other system).
> >>> 
> >>> So, how to file the bug?
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> 
> >>> Marcelo
> >> 
> >> Question: how did you manage to get the Maverick installation on
> >> to an USB stick to be able to install 10.10 from an USB stick?
> > 
> > I have downloaded the Maverick ISO files while still running Lucid
> > and used Lucid's usb-creator-kde to get them on the USB stick.
> 
> Being in my dotage years (ie, being past the "*-teen years"
> classification, when anyone above the *teen classification knows
> nothing, which is why teenagers are employed first because they know
> everything :-) ), I *THOUGHT*, thought mind you, thought that I read
> that there was a difference in the way an USB installation stick is
> created in Maverick and that an attempt using Lucid will not create
> such an installable USB stick using Maverick as the input - that is,
> you need to use Maverick, and not Lucid, to create such an USB. But
> I may be wrong..... Alas, I HAVE been known, sadly :-( , to be
> wrong.... :-) .
> 

Well, I didn't know about that, it's not mentioned in the release notes. 
I'll then burn a CD and live boot it on another system (the system where 
I was trying to install Maverick do not have a CD-ROM drive) and will 
create the usb stick from there. I'll post the results here later.

[]'s
Marcelo