On Fri 11 May 2018 at 15:49:59 -0500, Kent West wrote: > I no longer have a failing setup, but this Ubuntu user was seeing the exact > same thing I was seeing, except in Debian words/colors: > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/127398/usb-drive-install-of-ubuntu-12-04-server-fails-cant-find-components-from-cd-r > > In case of link-rot, here's what he writes: > > > 1. The computer boots up the installation process ok. > 2. It gets through the Ubuntu language, locale and keyboard selection. > 3. Then starts loading additional components. At this point it gets > about a quarter of the way through then throws big error message saying: > > *[!!] Load installer components from CD* > > There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in > the drive. If retrying does not work., you should check the integrity of > your CD-ROM. > > Failed to copy file from CD-ROM. Retry?
This user used Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.9.4 to write a Ubuntu 12.04 Server (32bit) image to a USB stick - a somewhat different technique from yours. The tool used to create the USB image quite possibly modified and damaged the image when writing it out. AfAIK, there is no well-documented account of dd, cat or cp reproducibly failing to write a Debian installation image properly to a USB device. -- Brian.
