[Bug 1221356] Re: hd-media installer rejects official raring ISO

[Nathan Dorfman]

Well, I just discovered that the debian wheezy iso has those main
/debian-installer files, so I bet their installer would work. I'll try
it.

This must have something to do with the old alternate install CD, no? I
bet they used to have these files as well, and were needed to work with
the hd-media installer. I could try with the 12.04 alternate iso.

I guess either the desktop isos would need some more files to work with
this method, or Ubuntu would need its own version of the hd-media initrd
that could actually use the Ubiquity installer? That'd be pretty
awesome.

OTOH it could also just be removed from the install guide. At the end of
the day, the netboot image works fine to boot from USB and install
saucy. Personally I think it's pretty convenient to have the ISO there
as well, but it doesn't look like anyone but me is using this method if
it's been broken for this long.

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Title:
  hd-media installer rejects official raring ISO

Status in “cdrom-retriever” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Following the Ubuntu 13.04 Installation Guide's USB install
  instructions for amd64 at https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/installation-
  guide/amd64/ch04s03.html#usb-copy-flexible doesn't work, it seems. I
  guess not many people are using the hd-media + ISO install method? The
  ISO is located and mounted successfully, then rejected due to missing
  items in the Packages file.

  What I did:

  1) Downloaded vmlinuz and initrd.gz to a USB drive from
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/

  2) Set up syslinux to boot those two

  3) Downloaded to the same flash drive ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso

  4) Booted from the flash drive.

  After the ISO is located and mounted, the installer errors out and is
  unable to proceed. The log says:

  Sep  2 17:24:55 iso-scan: ISOS_FOUND='[sdf1]
  /isos/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso (raring - 13.04)'
  Sep  2 17:24:55 iso-scan: Selected ISO:
  /isos/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso on /dev/sdf1
  Sep  2 17:24:55 kernel: [   50.033763] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft
  Joliet Level 3
  Sep  2 17:24:55 kernel: [   50.036768] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
  Sep  2 17:24:55 iso-scan: Detected ISO with 'raring' (raring) distribution
  Sep  2 17:24:55 iso-scan: Detected ISO with distribution 'raring' (raring)
  Sep  2 17:24:55 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-mirror-setup for later
  installation
  Sep  2 17:24:55 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-cdrom-setup for later
  installation
  Sep  2 17:24:55 anna-install: Queueing udeb raring-support for later
  installation
  Sep  2 17:24:55 main-menu[423]: (process:1616): libkmod:
  kmod_lookup_alias_from_builtin_file: could not open builtin file
  '/lib/modules/3.8.0-19-generic/modules.builtin.bin'
  Sep  2 17:24:55 main-menu[423]: (process:1616): [sdf1]
  isos/ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso (raring - 13.04)
  Sep  2 17:24:55 main-menu[423]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package
  doesn't exist (ignored)
  Sep  2 17:24:55 main-menu[423]: INFO: Menu item 'load-iso' selected
  Sep  2 17:24:55 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
  main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages in
  /cdrom/dists/raring/Release.
  Sep  2 17:24:55 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
  main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz in
  /cdrom/dists/raring/Release.
  Sep  2 17:24:55 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
  restricted/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages in
  /cdrom/dists/raring/Release.
  Sep  2 17:24:55 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find
  restricted/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz in
  /cdrom/dists/raring/Release.
  Sep  2 17:25:00 anna[3819]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
  Sep  2 17:25:00 main-menu[423]: INFO: Menu item 'load-iso' succeeded
  but requested to be left unconfigured.

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