in order to throw 8.10 beta on a new Mini9. I pulled off a 8.10 beta iso earlier today and installed into a VM on another box. Using usb-creator 0.1.9 to throw the iso onto a 1gb thumb gave me a bootable stick. Unfortunately, about a third of the way through the installation I was getting dropped into busybox and unable to proceed. Interestingly, I repeated the procedure with UNetBootin and got the same result. Both applications were able to get me into a Hardy install on the Mini9 without issue. Following the second "manual liveUSB" option from this article:
got me up and running on 8.10 (using the same iso as above) without issue. I'm just guessing but I suspect that the 8.10 livecd is doing something that doesn't behave when slapped on a thumbdrive having a capacity less than 2gb.
I'd be curious to know if those who had encountered the busybox issue were using smaller capacity thumbdrives.
I was following these instructions:
http:// www.ubuntumini. com/2008/ 10/installing- ubuntu- on-dell- inspiron- mini.html
in order to throw 8.10 beta on a new Mini9. I pulled off a 8.10 beta iso earlier today and installed into a VM on another box. Using usb-creator 0.1.9 to throw the iso onto a 1gb thumb gave me a bootable stick. Unfortunately, about a third of the way through the installation I was getting dropped into busybox and unable to proceed. Interestingly, I repeated the procedure with UNetBootin and got the same result. Both applications were able to get me into a Hardy install on the Mini9 without issue. Following the second "manual liveUSB" option from this article:
http:// www.pendrivelin ux.com/ 2008/10/ 15/ubuntu- 810-persistent- flash-drive- install- from-live- cd/
got me up and running on 8.10 (using the same iso as above) without issue. I'm just guessing but I suspect that the 8.10 livecd is doing something that doesn't behave when slapped on a thumbdrive having a capacity less than 2gb.
I'd be curious to know if those who had encountered the busybox issue were using smaller capacity thumbdrives.