Failure installing Ubuntu 24.04 on an USB stick

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 at 17:37, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> I guess it makes no difference if it's Ubuntu or Xubuntu being installed.

I would expect it wouldn't matter -- that is why I said it. :-)

> The Ubuntu flavors just provide a different default selection of packages,
> or something like that. They should be using the same installer. I may be
> wrong.

Most of them do, yes. (Lubuntu is different.)

> What seems more plausible to me is, that it depends on the machine which the
> installation is run on. I've only tried it on my old laptop so far. Maybe it
> would work when I tried it on my desktop.

Could be, yes.

> But I'm reluctant to do this. I've lost my desktop system once, when I did
> so (that was a few years ago).

For what it's worth, when I install onto USB, I use a VM to do it. I
map the USB key as its hard disk. That way there is _no way_ that the
install can do anything that affects the real host OS, and GRUB
`os-prober` does not and can not pick up the host OS.

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