Comment 60 for bug 234185

Same here, still a problem in 10.04. Installing from usb needs work. Ubuntu is too fixated on optical media.

I put Ubuntu Server 10.04 (amd64) on a 1G usb flash drive. This is for installation on a netbook with an Atom N450 and without a CD drive. Just getting Ubuntu Server on the flash drive was too much work. There was no easy way to put Ubuntu on a flash drive from within Arch Linux! The executable from the unetbootin web site won't run unless version 12 of libpng is present (Arch moved on to version 14 some time ago), and setting up usb-creator outside of Ubuntu looked to be a lot of trouble. I finally booted into Windows to do that part. (You should be ashamed that you made me boot up Windows.)

On the netbook, Ubuntu Server booted fine from the usb drive. But the installation process insists on finding a CDROM drive, and that netbook has none. I tried F6 and typed in "install cdrom-detect/try-usb=true" on the kernel boot parameters. Didn't make any difference.