Bug 89

Summary:	improve installation from flash disk
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jan Merta <lunruj>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	shikamaru, tigger.gg
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Jan Merta 2011-02-17 23:27:51 CET

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b10) Gecko/20110206 Firefox/4.0b10
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I created an installation flash disc of Mageia Linux alpha 1 via UNetbootin. When I boot it, the installer couldn't find a source for the installation. It's possible to locate the flash disk and install Mageia, but it would be good, if this was automatic.

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Comment 1 tigger-gg 2011-02-18 00:00:26 CET

Unetbootin doesnt work with Mageia(Mandriva).
To create an bootable flash disk use:
# dd if=/path/and/name-of-iso-file.iso of=/dev/sdX (X=the letter for your flash disk)
or use MandrivaSeed.

CC: (none) => tigger.gg

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2011-02-18 00:22:06 CET

Personally, I never had a problem with the Mandriva's iso, same with the first iso of Mageia. 

But yes there was no graphical boot for grub.

CC: (none) => manuel

Manuel Hiebel 2011-02-18 00:22:21 CET

CC: manuel => (none)

Comment 3 Rémy CLOUARD (shikamaru) 2011-02-21 22:14:04 CET

Hello, normally you should not have any problem putting your iso on a usb stick since they are hybrid by default. As a complement to #1, you can look in dmesg|tail to know the letter of your usb stick.

You can indeed also use MandrivaSeed, especially if you are doing this operation from windows.

See: http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2010/mandriva-seed-windows.zip

Beware, doing this will erase everything on your usb stick.

Unetbootin is unsupported.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => shikamaru
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX