Install to usb hangs

[Chris Hall]

I have been unable to install to a usb stick to create a live system from within the 8.12 beta nubuntu.
The software is version 1 and It is over USB 1.0
I can mount the usb stick fine, it hangs about 60-65% of the way through copying /cdrom/casper.
I tested it with the option combinations:
persistant and adobe flash.
persistant

My nubuntu release is 8.12 (20091209.5)

I am able to use unetbootin to turn the ISO into a bootable USB, and this works fine, this implies that it is not the usb stick nor the USB 1.0 ports, I booted the usb on a different computer from the one I made it on, if that makes any difference.

I am now testing it with no options and will add the results in afterwards.

[Chris Hall (followingthepath)]

As I posted the above bug report I started it to create a bootable USB with no options (no persistance and no adobe) and the process bar for copying /cdrom/casper is about 45-50% and it was like that 15 mins ago, but the light on my usb is flashing as is the light on my laptop indicating media access (but its not CD as the cd light is not flashing) so as far as I can tell, something is doing something xP

Albeit very slowly.

For the record, when it hung during the persistant home option, neither the usb nor media light were flashing.

I'll get back when I know more,

Ducky.

[Chris Hall (followingthepath)]

I left it running over night, and it appears to have completed, I can boot from it fine.
This was with no options ticked (no persistant home and no adobe flash)

It seems to have taken much much longer to get to the same point, with persistant home it hung at 60% of copying casper but it got to the point in "decent time", whereas between my two posts above it was running, which was 6 hours, and it still was below 60%

This is very odd behavior, i migh try run it over night tonight (new years) and see if it manages to complete with persistant home option enabled.

Ducky.

[PhilB (philip-blunden)]

FWIW, I can confirm this operation using USB2 and nUbuntu 8.12-beta.

From the sytem running the 8.12 LiveCD, I was unable to build a persistent bootable USB using the menu tool, the process hung. I was able to build a non-persistent USB using the same method.

I was able to build a persistent bootable USB using a process from the ubuntu Wiki. I also noted that the copying of the casper directory was noticeably faster than the successful non-persistent .

[Mahyuddin Susanto (udienz)]

how about make live cd via unetbootin? works well?