installation on external disk crashed

[opa mike]

not possible to install 12.04 on external disk.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 8 15:06:09 2012
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1735, in <module>
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: install.run()
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: func(self)
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 155, in run
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: self.configure_python()
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 297, in configure_python
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: cache = Cache()
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 102, in __init__
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: self.open(progress)
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 145, in open
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress)
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py: SystemError: W:Unable to read /target/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ - DirectoryExists (2: No such file or directory), W:Unable to read /target/etc/apt/sources.list - RealFileExists (2: No such file or directory), E:Could not open file /target/var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or directory), E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
May 8 13:05:54 majestix plugininstall.py:

[quent57 (quent57)]

same issue here

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]