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Error Installing from loaded iso

Post by Fedor »

i have put lmde iso on usb drive and boot from it. I also have mounted ldme iso from usb drive and can see its content.
All was going good, but after i filled form with names passwords etc i got "ERROR something is wrong with the installation medium!..." and about burn cd with proper tools.. yumi...

I never used that yumi thing, and have no cds to spare, no another usb disk either.

Help me please.
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Have you checked that the ISO you downloaded was not corrupted? Did you check the sum to see if it is matching with the one on Linux Mint download page?
Which tool have you used to write the iso on the USB stick?
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Definitely agree with kdb - it would be a good idea to check that iso image. :)
Here are some links to help:
https://linuxmint.com/verify.php
https://fred-barclay.github.io/VerifyLinuxMint/
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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I have checked sha256, accuracy is full. Also i tried older lmde-2-201503-mate-64bit.iso and have got exactly the same error.

My USB drive had been contained GRUB2 for a long time, i have copied iso plain without tools and have added entires into grub.cfg to load it. I suppose that install program do not recognize mounted iso as a source path. Is there a way to give source path for installation program, because i did not find that option.
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Oh ok I see.
Why don't you simply create a real bootable USB stick? With unetbootin or the Linux Mint utility to create such sticks?
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Fedor wrote:My USB drive had been contained GRUB2 for a long time, i have copied iso plain without tools and have added entires into grub.cfg to load it.
Please post your grub.cfg menuentry.
Fedor wrote:I suppose that install program do not recognize mounted iso as a source path. Is there a way to give source path for installation program, because i did not find that option.
The installation program will have no problem with the mounted iso, as long as you are not trying to install to the USB.
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killer de bug wrote:Oh ok I see.
simply create a real bootable USB stick
At first i have no spare usb sticks, my drive filled with plenty needed files where no place to move, and for second if i shall want cinamon or another edition i will have to create USB stick every time, that's rather very inconvenient.

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Here my grub.cfg entries

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menuentry "LMDE MATE x64" {
	set isofile='/lmde-mate-x64.iso'
	loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)$isofile
	linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live live-config fromiso=/dev/disk/by-label/BIGFLEX/$isofile toram=filesystem.squashfs nosplash --
	initrd (loop)/live/initrd.lz
	}
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Fedor wrote:austin.texas
Here my grub.cfg entries

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menuentry "LMDE MATE x64" {
	set isofile='/lmde-mate-x64.iso'
	loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)$isofile
	linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live live-config fromiso=/dev/disk/by-label/BIGFLEX/$isofile toram=filesystem.squashfs nosplash --
	initrd (loop)/live/initrd.lz
	}
Thank you. I will check that.
Also, please post the result of

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lsblk -f
so that I can check the Label "BIGFLEX"
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Try this menuentry.

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menuentry "LMDE MATE x64  .iso " {
   set root=(hd0,msdos1)
   set isofile='/lmde-mate-x64.iso'
   loopback loop ($root)$isofile
   linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz fromiso=($root)$isofile boot=live  live-config live-media-path=/casper findiso=$isofile edd=on ocs_live_run=\"ocs-live-general\" ocs_live_extra_param=\"\"  ocs_live_batch=\"no\" ocs_lang=\"\" ip=frommedia relatime  nolocales nosplash toram=filesystem.squashfs
   initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
  }
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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here the lsblk -f

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sda                         
├─sda1                      
├─sda2                      
└─sda5                      
sdb                         
├─sdb1                      /media/mint/BIGFLEX
└─sdb2                      
loop0                       /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
loop1                       
└─loop1p1                   
loop2                       /media/mint/LMDE 2 MATE 64-bit
I wonder why grub.cfg would affect an installation, but i have tried your cfg for the record, which is wrong, because there is no "casper", i have changed it to "live", and i think fromiso=($root)$isofile incorrect too, however it works anyway. Nevertheless it's nothing to do with error of an installation, it stays indeed.
I am sure this is problem of an installation program, which is not accepts mounted iso as a source path. How is possible to override its sequence and give it a certain source path?
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Some of the ideas in this thread might help.
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Some of the ideas in this thread might help.
This has no use for my problem. Why do you keep consider that it is problem of the grub or boot? I have nothing errors regarding either boot or grub Here see a screenshot.

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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Fedor wrote: Why do you keep consider that it is problem of the grub or boot?
Because you asked about that.
Fedor wrote: i have copied iso plain without tools and have added entires into grub.cfg to load it. I suppose that install program do not recognize mounted iso as a source path.
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Just a question, you referred to "mounted iso" or "I have mounted iso" twice in your posts.

If you are booting from the iso on a USB stick you should not have to manually mount it. Are you re-mounting an already mounted volume here?
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Fedor wrote: This has no use for my problem. Why do you keep consider that it is problem of the grub or boot? I have nothing errors regarding either boot or grub Here see a screenshot.
I will repeat myself but if you could build a real bootable usb stick, it would work. You got the problem with several iso from Mint, and therefore this is not an iso problem. It's a setup issue.
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Well, let me illustrate my actions further
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what's wrong here?
And how to do it right?


And about twice mounted iso, yes it definitely do, first it mounted by grub to boot live system, and second i mount it myself, because live system doesn't see it. Also i did not mention that this is iso problem. It is about installation program, where is no option to set path or its hidden.
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killer de bug

Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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The install linux mint icon on the desktop shows that you are in a live environment. Therefore you are booting on the iso. And then you try again to load the iso.
I don't understand why.

Click on the intall linux mint icon and install it.
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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killer de bug wrote:And then you try again to load the iso.
I don't understand why.
I do not load it, and of course it is not loaded at all, to be correct. Live system is loaded only from the iso, then i only mount iso, is it not like a virtual cd? If i won't mount iso where to find the path for install source?
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Fedor wrote:If i won't mount iso where to find the path for install source?
Look at your last screenshot. The icon for the installation program is on the Desktop. "Install Linux Mint"
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Re: Error Installing from loaded iso

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Fedor wrote: do not load it, and of course it is not loaded at all, to be correct. Live system is loaded only from the iso, then i only mount iso, is it not like a virtual cd? If i won't mount iso where to find the path for install source?
It's loaded. Otherwise you would not be running the live environment. You have the install Linux Mint icon on the desktop. So it's running. You should just click on it. No need to load anything else.
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