[Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:22 PM, David Leeming
<leeming at pipolfastaem.gov.sb> wrote:
> Pia (very kindly) sent me the hardware with the very same USB stick
> pre-configured with 0.5.0. It booted and started the installation fine, but
> failed right at the end with an exception error that we decided was due to
> hardware.

If you've seen that error, it's a good hint that the HW won't like
being installed from USB (at least with the 0.5.x images). I've seen
it on various machines. Burning CDROMs is the answer :-/

> What about the mkusbinstall errors as in the ***** attached jpeg ******?

Those errors are coming from a plain old "copy file X to the usb disk"
-- the kernel it's telling that writing to that disk failed. The
copies are done using the cp command, as vanilla as it gets. So
probably something wrong in the fdisk partitioning and filesystem
setup for the usb stick _or_ the usb stick being flakey (but you've
said it's not).

[ It's unfortunate that USB installs are hit-and-miss with F-9 stuff... ]



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