Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Volker Wysk]

Hi!

Am Samstag, dem 17.08.2024 um 15:57 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> Am Samstag, dem 17.08.2024 um 09:40 -0400 schrieb Little Girl:
> > Hey there,
> > 
> > Volker Wysk wrote:
> > 
> > > I want to *install* the system on an USB stick. Two sticks are
> > > involved. So I have a working distribution on it, for several
> > > purposes. This was possible in Ubuntu 22.04.
> > 
> > Is this page of any use? I realize it's for an older release, but the
> > steps should hopefully still be applicable:
> > 
> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1217832/how-to-create-a-full-install-of-ubuntu-20-04-to-usb-device-step-by-step
> 
> Yes, this could be helpful. Thanks.
> 
> But next I'll try to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the target stick and do a
> do-release-upgrade to 24.04 LTS afterwards.

The USB stick, on which I wanted to install Ubuntu 24.04 for a friend, was
darn slow. The advertisement was 100 MB/s write speed, but I measured only
19 MB/s. That's unusable for the purpose I have in mind. I've handed it back
and ordered a different one. 

And this arrived today and I measured the write speed: 450 MB/s, which
matches the advertised speed. Wow! That's fast.

I've installed Ubuntu 22.04 on it, using the "Delete disk and install
Ubuntu" method in the installer. It automatically created an EFI System
Partition and the actual data partition. It boots on both my non-UEFI laptop
and my UEFI desktop machine. 

Now I want to do-release-upgrade it to 24.04.1 LTS. Alas, 24.04.1 isn't out
yet (just 24.04). The release-upgrade doesn't upgrade to the initial release
of a new LTS version. It waits for the first point release.

Which will be available by August 29th. So I need to wait.

Cheers,
Volker