3.0rc1 needs USB Stick install !

[Reinhold]

Hi

(In the days of UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) and LiLi (www.linuxliveusb.com/))
I have come so used to install via USB Boot stick that I did not expect 3.0rc1
to still "suffer" the CD-ROM mount problem... 

A.D. 2012: All my recent machines have NO CD/DVD ROM - any more 

The two methods I know to install zentyal (and used for 2.x):
http://forum.zentyal.org/index.php/topic,1428.msg10281.html#msg10281
http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Documentation/Community/HowTo/InstallationFromUSB

DO NOT WORK        (...or at least I cannot get them to work, no CD ROM Driver install)

I really would like to test zentyal 3.0rc1...
...but feel I can only do so with an install via booting USB stick
CAN ANYBODY HELP ? 

[UdoB]

Using any other Ubuntu installation you can use usb-creator-gtk to create a bootable USB Stick from .iso files.

Best regards

[Reinhold]

Hi Udo

Thanks for the reply  ?...never tried unetbootin or LiLi

Making a bootable stick with the/from the zentyal .iso isn't the problem...
...even the window'sers do it for years with the above linux-origin tools now 

Zentyal does have A "PROBLEM" in it's installer (since the 'old ebox days')
"Right after keyboard identification the installer insists on accessing the cdrom"  ...and the stick is (mostly) /dev/sdb1)
The solution on the zentyal trac (and the one in the forum) is no longer working with 3.0rc1 (at least not for me).

With the whole world going "OPTICAL-DRIVE-less" I feel there must be someone with a solution out there 
(BTW: installing a plain ubuntu server from one of my bootable sticks would probably let me install from ppa _but_...)
((If you find time check unetbootin ! it's a fabulous tool)

[modem.over]

This is the same boat i am in. pressing buttons and testing theories till i find a way.

[don2009]

Hi, sry to resurrect this post but just thought would share my experiences with getting usb stick install working.

I made the install stick via several methods - used ubuntu usb creator, unetbootin etc. they all worked and failed in same place.
Everything seemed to go okay until installing software, last step before installing grub. It failed at this point every time, keep with me and I will hopefully shed some light on this.

I was installing over my previous linux server installation, I decided to try and install a minimum ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. I got exactly the same problem, so I'm assuming this is not a zentyal fault but a ubuntu fault.

How I got it to work was to delete and re-make my partitions so they were clear of any old crap. I only erased the root, home and efiboot boot partition. Suddenly all worked fine and I proceeded to install zentyal-desktop ontop of my minimal ubuntu 12.04 server install.

I'm guessing zentyal 3.0 would work straight from the usb stick install using same method, just backup any important data you have on root / home partitions first.

Good luck!

[robb]

Not a real solution, but may I recommend the Zalman ZM-VE300 for situations like this?
http://www.zalman.com/global/product/Product_Read.php?Idx=674

From the Zalman website:
VE300 supports Virtual ODD which can be used as CD-ROM, DVD, and Blu-ray Drive for convenient booting.

It is an external housing for a 2,5" diskdrive (HDD or SSD) that is able to boot a computer with an ISO placed on the harddisk like a virtual CD/DVD/BD player.

[johant]

Resurrect for solution.

I am currently installing Zentyal 3.0 from a USB-stick, and had the same problem with the installer insisting on accessing the CD-rom. This worked for me:

1) get zentyal iso
2) create bootable USB w. UNETbootin (from OSX in my case)
3) copy over zentyal iso to the bootable USB and name it zen.iso
4) eject USB and insert into target computer, run install until fail
5) in the installer menu, choose the enter a shell option
6) run the following cmds (where /dev/sdc1 should be your usb device)
umount /cdrom
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb
mount -o loop /mnt/usb/zen.iso /cdrom
exit
7) rerun the Detect and mount CDrom option
done