#1 2015-09-29 20:31:32

beng

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BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

unetbootin

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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,

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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)

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

sudo fdisk -l

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

--ninja'd ! --

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

Facepalm.

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

Muhaha ]:D

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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!

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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

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Re: BunsenLabs 8.2 (Hydrogen) RC1 Live ISOs on bootable USB

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