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    Re: Please help test usb-creator

    Quote Originally Posted by evan d View Post
    Persistence support is broken in casper, but you should end up at an initramfs prompt rather than the full desktop.
    I'm using the Ibex daily build and I get full desktop but no persistence support. It seems it's acting like a LiveCD.
    Last edited by High Roller; October 10th, 2008 at 07:17 AM.

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    Re: Please help test usb-creator

    Quote Originally Posted by evan d View Post
    I think you may be confused on the intention of this application. It does not replace ubiquity, the desktop CD installer, but rather writes a modified copy of the desktop CD to a USB disk and optionally enables persistence support.
    So, this does not provide an installation from USB to Hard Drive?

    I need to install Intrepid Server onto a WAFER-MARK Pc (No CD, but with a HD).

    I am going to attempt to use USB-Creator to do this -the USB drive replacing the LiveCD. Am I barking mad?

    Thanks

    Si

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    Re: Please help test usb-creator

    So, this does not provide an installation from USB to Hard Drive?
    It absolutely does allow you to install from usb to a hard drive.

    I'm posting this from my laptop (which has no cd drive) running Intrepid. I used usb-creator to put the cd iso on my usb key and install onto the hard drive from there. I am now happily running Intrepid without any usb key.

    Hope this clears the issue up!
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    Re: Please help test usb-creator

    Alas, with Intrepid Server ISO, the USB-Creator succeeds but the boot fails with

    Insert proper boot device

    Told!

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    Re: Please help test usb-creator

    Quote Originally Posted by msktje View Post
    Hello, I have a question about that persistent ability.
    Is it so that when you boot the stick and you install extra packages,
    the next time you boot the stick the packages are still installed?
    Is this feature already implemented or wil it be in time for intrepid or
    wil it be for 9.04?
    greetz FW
    Yes. But persistence is currently broken, though it will be fixed before release. See:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/274076

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    Re: USB creator makes bug #157153 more critical

    Quote Originally Posted by Ubuntiac View Post
    Uh oh...

    I just found out that this bug is alive and well with Intrepid.
    It's on my radar and will be fixed by release.

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    Re: Please help test usb-creator

    Quote Originally Posted by C.S.Cameron View Post
    I used a flash drive built using usb-creator to install Xubuntu 8.10 Beta on a second flash drive, full install, not CD image.
    Booting gave error message, no such drive.
    Menu.lst had root listed as (1,2).
    After changing root to (0,2) the drive boots.
    During updates I am asked to modify menu.lst.
    If I say yes, it is changed back to (1,2).
    The drive order changes after you install. This is solved by adding UUID support to GRUB, which was done by Colin King earlier in the cycle, and updating update-grub to handle the new uuid command that came as a result of that, which I'm going to commit to the archive tonight.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ub/+bug/281100

    Quote Originally Posted by C.S.Cameron View Post
    My only problem is that the latest usb-creator from launchpad no longer seem to work for me.
    Booting all I get is grub _ with a blinking curses.
    I've tried it a dozen times with different distro's, different computers, etc.
    The bootloader defaults to (hd0), which happens to be your usb drive when you're installing from it. This has been on my radar for some time now and I'm in the process of writing a patch to make it default to something more reasonable.

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    Re: Please help test usb-creator

    Quote Originally Posted by sipickles View Post
    Alas, with Intrepid Server ISO, the USB-Creator succeeds but the boot fails with

    Insert proper boot device

    Told!
    debian-installer based CD (Alternate CD, Server CD) support is on the way.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/in...or/+bug/234185

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    Re: Please help test usb-creator

    usb-creator worked just fine for me except for one thing:
    It doesn't enable the LBA flag by default - this does not let my flash drive boot. Bug Report.
    Focus on how it can be rather than how it could've been.

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    Talking Re: USB creator makes bug #157153 more critical

    Quote Originally Posted by evan d View Post
    It's on my radar and will be fixed by release.
    All hail Evan! Long may your offspring walk the Earth, and your code command it's technology.

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