Installing FROM an USB-stick

[jpn]

Hi

I'm trying to install Kubuntu 7.10 (kubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso) from an USB-stick (because my CD/DVD-drive is broken). I've been following this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick

Booting to the installer works fine but I have problems while trying to mount the USB-stick on /cdrom:

# mount -t vfat /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /cdrom
mount: Mounting /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /cdrom failed: No such device

Any ideas?

-- JP

[Snowhog]

Re: Installing FROM an USB-stick

Did you follow these instructions fully:

Mounting the flash drive as /cdrom
Switch to the second virtual console during the first couple of dialogs (when asked about your preferred language for the installation etc.) by pressing the ""ALT-2"". Do the following:
mkdir /cdrom /dev/cdroms
cd /dev/cdroms
ln -s ../sda1 cdrom0 (where sda1 is your USB stick)
mount -t vfat /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /cdrom
Then switch back to the first virtual console by pressing ""ALT-1"". Continue installing Ubuntu as if you were running from CD.

[jpn]

Re: Installing FROM an USB-stick

Yep, I did. Here's a full log of what I did:

# mkdir /cdrom /dev/cdroms
# cd /dev/cdroms
# ln -s ../sdb1 cdrom0
# mount -t vfat /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /cdrom
mount: Mounting /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /cdrom failed: No such device

In fact, any mounting attempt gives same error: "No such device"

# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /test
mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /test failed: No such device

# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /test
mount: Mounting /dev/hda2 on /test failed: No such device

, where /dev/sdb1 is the USB-stick and /dev/hda2 is an ext3 partition.

-- JP

[jpn]

Re: Installing FROM an USB-stick

There was an easy solution. I just switched to kubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso (instead of alternate) and everything worked flawlessly.

Oh, and the installation was actually much easier than what https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick describes.

All I did was

• made the usb-stick bootable with syslinux (3.52)
• copied contents of kubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso on the usb-stick
• renamed /isolinux -> /syslinux, isolinux.bin -> syslinux.bin, isolinux.cfg -> syslinux.cfg
• voila!

So no need of moving files to root, editing syslinux.cfg, nor mounting the usb-stick on /cdrom..

--JP