Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Volker Wysk]

Am Dienstag, dem 20.08.2024 um 08:05 -0400 schrieb Little Girl:
> Hey there,
> 
> Volker Wysk wrote:
> 
> > The USB stick, on which I wanted to install Ubuntu 24.04 for a
> > friend, was darn slow. The advertisement was 100 MB/s write speed,
> > but I measured only 19 MB/s. That's unusable for the purpose I have
> > in mind. I've handed it back and ordered a different one. 
> 
> Perhaps it was to blame for the failure to install.

The stick was very slow, but okay otherwise. I've let it complete the
installation of 24.04. That was on my laptop, which has only USB2, but that
*wasn't* the bottleneck here. It took about five hours, but it completed.
But then the EFI System Partition, the kernel and Grub were all missing...

> > And this arrived today and I measured the write speed: 450 MB/s,
> > which matches the advertised speed. Wow! That's fast.
> 
> That's good news.

When I installed 22.04 on the new stick, on the laptop as well, it took 20
minutes. Here, the USB2 should be the bottleneck.

> > I've installed Ubuntu 22.04 on it, using the "Delete disk and install
> > Ubuntu" method in the installer. It automatically created an EFI
> > System Partition and the actual data partition. It boots on both my
> > non-UEFI laptop and my UEFI desktop machine. 
> 
> Very good news.

Yes, it's just surprising that this seems not to work at all with the 24.04
installer.

Maybe I make another attempt with 24.04 and the new USB stick.

> > Now I want to do-release-upgrade it to 24.04.1 LTS. Alas, 24.04.1
> > isn't out yet (just 24.04). The release-upgrade doesn't upgrade to
> > the initial release of a new LTS version. It waits for the first
> > point release.
> > 
> > Which will be available by August 29th. So I need to wait.
> 
> That's not bad at all since it's only a few days away. It's good to
> hear that it's all working out.

Yes, but now it's past my friend's birthday.  :-)


Cheers,
Volker