Comment 50 for bug 658865

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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>
> 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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