usb-creator learns to install standard linux from running linux
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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usb-creator (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
as usb drives are available at reasonable prices now, they can easy hold a standard linux, not only a squashed one. it would be great if a running ubuntu would allow to easy install linux on an usb drive. currently this is a little tedious via e.g. debootstrap: https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.40ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 6 11:59:01 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-09 (28 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: usb-creator
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
while not easy to find in the current documentation, and crasching with ubuntu-14.10, ubiquity does exactly this.