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 May 30 2009, 03:45 PM
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-------------------- "Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding."
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May 30 2009, 07:24 PM
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Did you use UNetbootin as suggested in the link below?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/creat...e-the-easy-way/ I have not done this procedure but it looks simple enough. This post has been edited by buddy215: May 30 2009, 07:28 PM |
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May 31 2009, 01:08 PM
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I figured it out. Apparently in order to force a boot from the flash, I had to remove the HD, boot, then re insert the HD so the installation could proceed. Kinda weird method, but it worked fine. I did use Unetbootin to make the drive bootable
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May 31 2009, 01:42 PM
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Clever.
After reading what the Ubuntu site had to say about problems with bootable flash drives, QUOTE: "Booting from USB storage can be very handy, but there is no guarantee that it will work with your particular combination of computer and USB drive. Even if you are able to boot from your USB drive on one computer, this does not mean that it is going to work with the next one. You can try experimenting with different settings in your PC's BIOS to make it work.END QUOTE Your solution is one for the books. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installat...image%20creator I now have Ubuntu 9.04 and was glad to see some of the nitpicky problems I was having with 8.04 are not in 9.04. There was one that I had to look around a bit to find. SKYPE. I think Skype is dragging their feet on upgrading their program for the 9.04. I used the commands below after some other solutions failed to install Skype. Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal). Copy the following code and paste it into the terminal. Code: sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Then to get the GPG key Code: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update And finally Code: sudo apt-get install skype After it installs, you can find Skype under Applications -> Internet -> Skype |
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