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I was unable to get Statler (xfce) installed on my MSI Wind using unetbootin and the "dev/sdX" instruction.  I couldn't get past that point.  Fortunately, I have an external burner and rather than bang my head against the wall, I burned the CD and it installed without incident.  I should mention that I had difficulty in setting up wireless during the installation, so I plugged in the cable.  Wireless works fine from the live image, and I no trouble getting it to work after the installation.

I should add that I had/have successfully installed a number of distros on my netbook using unetbootin or the Ubuntu usb installer (multiple Ubuntu versions, CB 9.04, Mint 7 xfce, Mint 8 fluxbox, Peppermint, Meego.  The only other failure I can remember is with Moblin 2 (Fedora version), so the problem I had with Statler is the exception rather than the rule for me.

By the way, watch out for Meego.  It works great (boot-up in 9 sec to a working internet connection!), but after the installation, I lost access to all other partitions and even after I repaired this, my Windows partition still doesn't work.  (No big deal, I don't use it anyway.)

Last edited by fox (2010-06-07 14:02:58)

gutterslob, the 9 second boot-up was on my SSD (for specs, see my signature).  I used version 1.0 for netbooks that doesn't specify chrome, and reading about it on their website, I think it uses chromium.  I read good things about battery performance, but didn't keep it long enough to test it.  With regard to wireless compatibility, they claim it was built specifically for netbooks, but my wifi card (Gigabyte atheros) is natively supported by recent kernels.  According to their website, it has been tested on: Asus EeePC 901, 1000H, 1005HA, 1008HA, EeePC 1005PE, Eeetop ET1602, Dell mini10v, Inspiron Mini 1012, Acer Aspire One D250, AO532-21S, Revo GN40, Aspire 5740-6025, Lenovo S10, MSI U130, AE1900, HP mini 210-1044, Toshiba NB302. That's a pretty good list.  For more details, check their website (here).

Last edited by fox (2010-06-07 17:53:34)

what do you mean hybrid, rikhardfloss?

^ http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/71487/#p71487

If you're still having troubles with Statler installation from a USB device, try this - it's been mentioned before, and has worked flawlessly for me.

Use unetbootin to create a Debian Unstable HDMedia environment.  Then drop the .iso for Statler in the root of that USB device.

Boot from that.

Problem solved.

I'm having the same kind of problems described by others. I am using an Eee 1000H netbook.

If I use UNetBootin then I get the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" error. If I mount the usb to /cdrom then I get a "Failed to copy file from CD-ROM" error. Live mode works fine.

If I use dd as the wiki suggests then my netbook won't recognize the usb at boot.
Does anything else need to be done to prepare the usb?

Do you know where the Debian Unstable HDMedia environment can be downloaded from? Is it one of these?

hi omns, I asked about the download link because my unetbootin doesn't have an option for HDMedia. I am using version 356-1 on Ubuntu 9.10 - what version are you using?

Aha!

With the most recent version of unetbootin installing statler on my netbook was straightforward.
Thanks guys for your help. It might be worth adding that HDMedia approach to the wiki.

Unfortunately none of the above usb options worked for me. Tried the dd command on the wiki, got the cdrom error. Then tried several variants on "HDmedia" - again got the same install error. I tried HDMedia "Testing HDMedia_x64, Tried "Stable_HDMedia_x64," and finally "Unstable_HDMedia_x64." The all gave the same error "Install failed."

Incidentally, the USB thumbdrive I used is one I've used many times to successfully install several distro's - including crunchbang 9.04. So it's not the drive.

So finally gave in and burned the damn disk, and installed that way. Seems, at least for my rig, there's no way to install it via usb. Not an issue now that I've burned a CD. But for the final release, it'd be great to get a universal way that is reliable that allows a usb install.

Peace

P.S. Strangely, I went through the install fine. At the end, it saw my crunch 9.04 and windows 7 install and asked to include them in a grub install. I said yes, but when I booted, the only option was Statler. Weird. Not a big problem, but odd.

I've just spent a day trying figuring out this problem...

I tried to install debian and statler 2 on a new pc for a home-server (USB install).
With Unetbootin(on both linux and windows) and Universal USB installer the installion failed to proceed.
The problem was always the same : CD-ROM cannot be mounted. The workaround isn't working for those in my case.
I tried all of the boot-pendrives on two PC(of completly different hardware) and the results were always the same.

The interesting thing is that Debian stable(5.06) gave me the exact same errors(I tried to create the debianboot-usb with UNetBootin and universal USB creator).

Finally the solution was the workaround in this topic but only with the dd-ed version.:rolleyes:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/statler … stallation
I followed this and succeed. The pendrive didn't need to be mounted to bypass the problem.

I dont know if the dd-ed debian stable can be repaired the same way, it's yet to be tested.

Also successfully installed using Unetbootin 471. In both this and SUSE I have to back out of the little startup menu it gives me on boot and manually select 'install' and then 'hard drive' and then 'sdf' though, or something like that...

I realize now that the above information is pretty useless. Sorry. I'll try to find some specifics when I use it on the next machine.