[Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS

[David Leeming]

OK it worked thanks to all of you. You were all right. A combination of
weird small errors with hardware and sum packages that weren't installed on
Ubuntu...

Firstly I installed isomd5sum. It now checks the USB...

Despite my earlier attempts, and the fact that the stick was working when I
first tried (with 0.5.0), and that it appeared fine in partition editor,
files visible etc, there WAS a USB hardware problem - a bad fragment that
persisted.

I tried with another USB stick, simply formatted FAT using a Windows machine
which left it already bootable, and YES it all works. No errors with
mkusbinstall and booting up nicely into anaconda etc.

HOWEVER - the installation fails right at the end when performing
post-installation config - installing bootloader:

An unhandled exception occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save a
copy of the detailed exception and the bug report against anaconda at your
distribution provided bug reporting tool

I think this IS a hardware problem, it is reproducible. Any ideas?




David Leeming
Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Alternative email address: leemingdavid at yahoo.com.au 



-----Original Message-----
From: quozl at us.netrek.org [mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org] On Behalf Of
quozl at laptop.org
Sent: Monday, 16 February 2009 3:35 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: 'Martin Langhoff'; server-devel at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails

You got Input/Output error during cp read of /media/cdtmp.Rf6276, which
I guess is the loopback mounted ISO 9660 file system image.  The most
common cause of this is truncation of the image, especially if the files
on which it occurs are near the end of the image.

checkisomd5 is missing.  Install it from package isomd5sum on Ubuntu.

There may be other tools missing.  Use script command to capture all the
output as text, so we can have another look.

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James Cameron    mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org     http://quozl.netrek.org/