Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Volker Wysk wrote:

>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. 

Perhaps it was to blame for the failure to install.

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

That's good news.

>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. 

Very good news.

>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.

That's not bad at all since it's only a few days away. It's good to
hear that it's all working out.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.