On 2 May 2012 03:07, Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> wrote: > > There are a few more points that should be added. They should all appear > after the end of the current list. > > During the installation process, the user is asked "What type of media > contains the installation image?" The user should select the first > partition on the USB key, which usually appears in the menu under "Hard > drive", then "/dev/sdb1". > > After partitioning, the user is asked whether to install the Grub boot > loader and where to install it. After booting from the USB key, the BIOS > thinks that the USB key is the first drive. To install the Grub boot > loader on the hard drive, which is the usual case, the user must change > the order of the hard drives using the Grub installation options. > > After the Grub installation options, the following error message > appears: "Missing ISO 9660 image: The installer has tried to mount image > #1, but cannot find it on the hard drive". The installation program is > looking for the ISO file on the first partition of the USB key, but it's > on the second partition. The user should go to a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F2), > unmount the first partition of the USB key ("umount /mnt/isodir"), mount > the second partition ("mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/isodir"), return to > the installation program (Ctrl-Alt-F6) and choose "Retry". > > (Unmounting /dev/sdb1 doesn't interfere with the installation process. I > tried creating a link from /dev/sdb1 to the ISO image, but that didn't > work, because /dev/sdb1 contains a VFAT or FAT32 flle system which > doesn't support links.) As that is more that a couple of simple tweaks, I think it would be best for me to "wave" in the general direction of the page's original author -- Phil Schaffner -- to draw his attention to your suggestion and thus allow him to merge it in. Thank you for the suggestions. Alan.