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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Yes, this is confusing. I am sure netbootin will keep improving and smooth out these little things. Geza (the author of unetbootin) clarified this same question for me (see a few posts above). When...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    It looks like the root partition is misspecified, you could try editing the UnetBootin entry in grub, and specify a different root. No idea why this is happening though, maybe you can specify more...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Good news, It worked! I got to the installer, but aborted for lack of time, I'll fdo it in the weekend.

    In a nutshell: the eeepc uses unionfs to merge a "factory installation", stored in...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Yes, that's exactly what I was pointing out above.
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    I'll give it a shot next weekend, I have a feeling it may work. The grub menu.lst is in /bot/grub ... I don't know, we'll see. If it works, I'll try to post a minihowto here in ubuntuforums. I could...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Yes and no, see my earlier post, it seems to link dynamically against libc6, and require libc6 >=2.4. This means, any distro based on debian etch, including the eeepc's xandro's, will have problems....
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Correct, it doesn't find it (I also tried this manually during my tests, oddly, it only finds the manpage, I had to look at the deb package to locate the binary). I also have mixed feelings about...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Ok, I looked at the source code, I think I have a clue, hope someone can give me a hand and confirm I am right.

    I have two drives:

    /dev/sda -> Xandros install on the eeepc internal ssd ...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Have you tried running it from the command line and see if there is any output to help you understand more?
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Ok, I am trying to install Kubuntu in an eeepc with unetbootin and document it. I had an udev issue:


    vol_id not found. This is required for either install mode.
    Install the "udev" package or...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    /home/user/bin> sudo ./unetbootin-linux-201
    ./unetbootin-linux-201: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by ./unetbootin-linux-201)


    I am thinking ... would it be possible...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Awsome, I tried it, and the segfault is gone!. but I get a libc error and the program exits gracefully:



    /home/user/bin> sudo ./unetbootin-linux-201
    ./unetbootin-linux-201:...
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    Re: Howto: Install Ubuntu without a CD

    Hi

    This is a terrific tool. I meant to install kubuntu on my eeepc, in a 4GB SDHC, alongside the default xandros. However, when I run the unetbootin executable (I just downloaded the latest) i get...
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