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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0000413Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2013-06-21 07:402013-08-09 23:19
Reportercutaway Assigned Tomuts  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Platformx64OSKali - KDEOS Version1.0
Summary0000413: Creating USB Boot Drive From Custom ISO Fails
Description

After creating a Custom ISO, following the default instructions, the resulting ISO cannot be used to create a USB Boot drive. Using "Startup Disk Creator" the install process fails with the following exception:

"An uncaught exception was raised: Invalid version string 'GNU/Linux'"

Booting the ISO using Virtual Box runs successfully.

Steps To Reproduce

apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap kali-archive-keyring
git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git
cd live-build-config
dpkg --add-architecture amd64
apt-get update

config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot was updated and the packages "kde-plasma-desktop" and "kdm" were uncommented. The "gnome-core" was commented out.

lb config --architecture amd64
apt-get install apt-cacher-ng
/etc/init.d/apt-cacher-ng start
export http_proxy=http://localhost:3142/
lb build

The resulting binary.hybrid.iso was moved to another system and a attempted was made to write the ISO to a USB drive using "Start-up Disk Creator (usb-creator-kde). All of these attempts ended with the exception:

"An uncaught exception was raised: Invalid version string 'GNU/Linux'"

The ISO was used to start a VirtualBox virtual machine and it started successfully. I was able to log into the virtual machine.

Activities

vanguard

vanguard

2013-06-21 16:08

reporter   ~0000583

Hi,

have you tried to create a bootable usb stick with "unetbootin"?

This works very well for me.

Best

Hans
cutaway

cutaway

2013-06-21 18:16

reporter   ~0000584

[Solved] Successful USB drive created using the instructions posted here:

http://docs.kali.org/installation/kali-linux-live-usb-install

I recommend a link to these instructions should be included on the custom build pages.
muts

muts

2013-08-09 23:19

reporter   ~0000682

Solved by user, reading the docs helps.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-06-21 07:40 cutaway New Issue
2013-06-21 16:08 vanguard Note Added: 0000583
2013-06-21 18:16 cutaway Note Added: 0000584
2013-08-09 23:19 muts Note Added: 0000682
2013-08-09 23:19 muts Status new => closed
2013-08-09 23:19 muts Assigned To => muts
2013-08-09 23:19 muts Resolution open => no change required