Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #658865
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 658865

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Dazed (dazed) wrote : Re: An attempt to configure apt to install additional packages from the CD failed upon install from USB

I had this problem with an Acer Aspire A110 netbook and the UNE 10.10 iso on a USB key (via Unetbootin on XP).

Connecting via WiFi first made no difference. I tried installing various times and at one point it told me installation was complete (after the installer crashed) but I still got "error: file not found grub rescue>" after rebooting.

Having no other Linux PC, I first tried running the #6 workaround on the netbook (using Live USB), but the USB key became read only when booted from and I didn't have another USB key big enough. I then tried to copy the files to an SD card instead and merge them back onto the USB key with my XP PC, but it was taking too long on the netbook.

The next plan was to use a Live CD on the XP PC and copy the files, but it was too slow with the CD drive spinning up/down repeatedly and causing I/O errors until the PC froze. Instead I installed Ubuntu via Wubi on the XP PC and did it there instead. After spending many hours copying 133,000 files (1.5-3Gb?) onto the USB key and installing it on the netbook, it still didn't work :(

My workaround was to use the 'Alternate installer' iso on USB instead, and I connected the ethernet too. It downloaded stuff and took somewhere between 2 - 6hrs (as I was asleep) and works well. An improvement at least on the 11.5 hrs it took before to upgrade from UNE 10.04 to a buggy 10.10 (slow SSD).