Provide a method for installing Ubuntu directly into an USB drive
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Triaged
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Most important bugs that people experience when upgrading Ubuntu are hardware related, and that's because Ubuntu is mostly tested using virtual machines.
We need a method that would allow to install daily images directly into USB drives, without needing to use persistence. Just as it was a hard disk.
I tried doing so by using Ubiquity, the Ubuntu Live CD installer, but it crashes as per bug #1687332. Anyway that method isn't agile enough, as after installation you would have to upgrade to the development release anyway.
Implementing this feature could save a big amount of crashes after release, allowing people to easily test their hardware in advance and having the developers time to fix them.
tags: | added: xenial |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
description: | updated |
Why would you "have to upgrade to the development release" after installing a daily Live CD? A daily Live CD is the development release of Ubuntu.