Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:11:48PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote:
>On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 23:32 +1300, Philip Charles wrote:
>> Package: installation-reports
>> Severity: normal
>> After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not
>> recognised on reboot.
>>
>> Boot method: usb stick
>> Image version: beta 2 installer amd64 DVD1 (copied to usb stick)
>> Date: Oct 2014
>
>>From a email sent to me,
>"One of my friends works for an NGO and is based in rural parts of Asia
>and Latin America for about 10 months of the year. He told me that most
>of the machines were second-hand and had faulty DVD drives. Moreover DVD
>discs are prone to scratches and wear-and-tear. On the other hand USB
>flash drives are ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive. Even used
>machines have at least a USB port."
>
>I have produced complete 32 & 64 bit installation sticks for wheezy
>(~43GB) and Jessie (~55GB) which fit nicely on a 64GB stick. However,
>the stick is of limited use because the stick cannot be accessed after
>the initial installation which means that additional software cannot be
>installed.
That's a good point. At the moment, things won't work very well after
the installation is completed from USB, though - the "CD" won't look
like a CD any more. As you've noted. Maybe we need an extra option in
apt which will look for USB sticks and make them look like sources for
installing packages, or an extra lump of code in d-i to set up the USB
stick as a package source.
It shouldn't be *too* hard to pick up on things like this - when
plugged in to a desktop machine, I'm assuming the auto-mounting code
will end up mounting the USB stick already, and it's going to show up
as ISO9660 instead of vfat/ext4/etc. It's also going to have some
useful extra data on it that we can pick up on, e.g. the .disk
directory containing flag files.
Apt guys, how much effort would it be to add an extra package source
(derived from cdrom), called apt-usb or similar?
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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