SOLVED – CD-ROM COULDN’T BE MOUNTED

SOLVED – CD-ROM COULDN'T BE MOUNTED

I recently got my hands on an an old PC. A hand me down from a friend. I decided I would use this machine as a home server/security centre (A separate post on that coming soon). After a little thought and research I decided that an Ubuntu Server Edition iso would suit my needs perfectly.

I downloaded the ISO overnight and create a Bootable USB using unetbootin (My favourite Bootable USB creating software). After some fiddling around with the PC to try and make it turn on, I managed to get a boot screen. When I selected “Install Ubuntu Server” I got past the first few screens (Selecting language and keyboard) I received an Error “Your installation CD-ROM couldn’t be mounted”

Error received "CD-ROM couldn't be mounted"

Selecting “No” resulted in more errors and selecting “Yes” resulted in the exact same message – an endless loop. My only solution was to restart the computer and edit the boot parameters.

Once back at the Unetbootin grub menu, scroll down to the same “Install Ubuntu server” option and press TAB

You will now see the boot criteria along the bottom of your screen.

Bring your cursor to the end of this line and press space once. Now enter the following

cdrom-detect/try-usb=true

Press enter and your install should now bypass the CD-ROM check and use the USB instead.