Me too. I was shocked to see it fail in a final version through USB
install, which is nowadays one of the most popular installation options.


On 4 April 2014 03:51, Eric Ongerth <email address hidden> wrote:

> Same as above, this is still a problem when installing 14.04 final beta
> from a USB stick created with either unetbootin or ubuntu's own Startup
> Disk Creator.  Same solution as above worked for me.
>
> I want to recommend Ubuntu to my friends who are discontinuing Windows
> but it's hard to believe I have to give them these special instructions
> so that they can install it from a downloaded ISO and a USB stick.  I
> hope it is clear that this is a very very popular path for installation
> and it should not be broken.  It's surprising this has been an open
> issue for over three years.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658865
>
> Title:
>   Install from USB fails: "An attempt to configure apt to install
>   additional packages from the CD failed"
>
> Status in Estobuntu -- oma eesti opsüsteem:
>   New
> Status in "ubiquity" package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   Please note that removing /usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-
>   setup/generators/40cdrom from your system may cause the installer to
>   crash at a later stage.
>
>   Original report follows:
>
>   Binary package hint: ubiquity
>
>   Description of problem:
>   When trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 from USB, ubiquity crashes with this
> message: "An attempt to configure apt to install additional packages from
> the CD failed."
>
>   Root of problem:
>   The problem is that the file structure on the usb differs to what is on
> a livecd and apt-setup is unaware of this.
>
>   WORKAROUND:
>
>   There appear to be two alternatives:
>
>   a) Remove the script that causes the error, when installing from a Live
> setup ("Try Ubuntu"):
>      sudo rm /usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-setup/generators/40cdrom
>
>   b) Create the files as they are expected:
>
>      To resolve this, simply copy the contents of filesystem.squashfs on
>   the iso into the usb stick. Luckily the parts it is reading from this
>   appear to be just apt config files so the fact that you lose symbolic
>   links or permissions on a FAT32 usb stick shouldn't matter.
>
>      On your current Linux installation: (If you don't have one you could
> use a live cd off a different usb stick)
>      1. Create USB stick.
>      2. Type in a terminal:
>      sudo mkdir iso
>      sudo mkdir source
>      sudo mount -o loop pathtoiso/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso iso
>      sudo mount -t squashfs -o loop iso/casper/filesystem.squashfs source
>      sudo cp -pLr source/* pathtomountedusbstick
>
>      (Thanks Klaas Hartmann for the workaround :))
>
>   Architecture: i386
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
>   LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
>   Package: ubiquity 2.4.8
>   PackageArchitecture: i386
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
>   Tags: maverick
>   Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
>   UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
>
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