Installed Debian Jessie fails to recognize USB flash drive upon reboot
Package: Installation-reports
Severity: Serious
After successful installation using the USB thumb drive method, the installed OS fails to recognize the same USB drive.
Boot method: USB flash drive
Image version: Beta 2 installer amd64 DVD1 ("burned" the ISO to USB stick)
Date: Oct 2014
Machine: DIY
Partitions: Entire disk drive
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [o ]
Detect network card: [o ]
Configure network: [o ]
Detect CD: [o ]
Load installer modules: [o ]
Clock/timezone setup: [o ]
User/password setup: [o ]
Detect hard drives: [o ]
Partition hard drives: [o ]
Install base system: [o ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [o ]
Overall install: [E ]
Comments/Problems:
Although I "burned" the Debian Jessie beta 2 DVD-1 to a USB flash drive, during the installation process, I chose to do a base/net install only as I wanted to install only the packages that I needed. I did not wish to have the full Gnome, KDE, LXDE desktop environments.
Upon reboot, I was presented with a black-background console, tty1, and typed in my login username and password. I proceeded to "sudo apt-get install xorg gnome-core" and failed, the reason being the CDROM was missing. Well, I re-inserted the USB flash drive and re-typed the same command. Again the machine responded with the CDROM was missing.
I have been told that the above problem has existed since the days of pre-Debian Wheezy.
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