BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

beng · 2015-09-29 20:31:32

Hi
I copied BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISO to a bootable USB stick (unetbootin)
but when I launch the graphical installation I hit a wall after the keyboard selection:

"Your installation CD-rom couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the CD-rom was not in the drive. If so you can insert it and try again.
Retry mounting the CD-rom?
<yes> <no>"

Could anyone provide advice? (I do not have acd rom drive)
thank you
beng

Bearded_Blunder · 2015-09-29 20:49:04

I usually make the USB using either Rufus or Winimage (under windows) or dd under Linux, I've yet to have a failure using

sudo dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/usbdevice bs=4M; sync

hhh · 2015-09-29 20:57:09

beng wrote:

unetbootin

Yes, this is most likely the problem. cp is another alternative on Linux...
https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-09-30 06:35:09

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=775689

torq · 2015-10-01 15:57:15

I have the same issue... when the message: "Your installation CD-rom couldn't be mounted..." appears, I pull of the USB-stick and put it in again and the installation continues without further flaws.
Give it a try,

Enzyme · 2015-10-02 14:11:01

Bearded_Blunder wrote:

I usually make the USB using either Rufus or Winimage (under windows) or dd under Linux, I've yet to have a failure using
sudo dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/usbdevice bs=4M; sync

Does this work for installing a bootable system?

I tried that just now, got a failure to boot related to missing syslinux file, or something along those lines. The message was to brief to read before it dropped into hdd boot.

Edit: I used unetbootin and had no problems. So that's a 50% reported hit rate for running BL Live, eh?

I'm now posting from inside Hydrogen Live. Wheeee!

Last edited by Enzyme (2015-10-02 14:20:29)

hhh · 2015-10-02 14:19:49

Post the exact command you used and (with your USB inserted) the output of...

sudo fdisk -l

Enzyme · 2015-10-02 14:29:29

dd if=Downloads/00-Torrents/bl-Hydrogen-rc1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4M; sync

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *        2048    15124479     7561216    b  W95 FAT3

Unia · 2015-10-02 14:35:35

Enzyme wrote:

dd if=Downloads/00-Torrents/bl-Hydrogen-rc1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4M; sync

You shouldn't use a partition number. You should have used:

dd if=Downloads/00-Torrents/bl-Hydrogen-rc1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync

damo · 2015-10-02 14:37:35

--ninja'd ! --

Enzyme wrote:

dd if=Downloads/00-Torrents/bl-Hydrogen-rc1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4M; sync

You have written to a partition, not the drive. Try

of=/dev/sdc

Last edited by damo (2015-10-02 14:38:12)

hhh · 2015-10-02 14:40:36

Nope, you need to leave off the 1. Use either...

sudo cp Downloads/00-Torrents/bl-Hydrogen-rc1-amd64.iso /dev/sdc; sync

Or...

dd if=Downloads/00-Torrents/bl-Hydrogen-rc1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync

-edit- what damo said

Enzyme · 2015-10-02 14:45:51

Facepalm.

Unia · 2015-10-02 14:47:42

Muhaha ]:D

Enzyme · 2015-10-02 14:49:35

I haven't installed a system since late 2012. My bash has become soft and poorly defined.

On the other hand: unetbootin worked for me!

Unia · 2015-10-02 14:55:49

Oh no, I was laughing at hhh and damo O:) Not you!

Enzyme · 2015-10-02 15:02:12

Ah - that's okay. I was laughing at me.

z3braman · 2016-06-22 11:16:32

torq wrote:

I have the same issue... when the message: "Your installation CD-rom couldn't be mounted..." appears, I pull of the USB-stick and put it in again and the installation continues without further flaws.
Give it a try,

That worked for me! I had previously tried two different usb thumb drives and burned them several different ways including dd and unetbootin from both a mac and a pc. I could run the live version but every time it failed the same way when I went the install route.

Thanks Torq.

Paul

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