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xupal

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31. January 2008 @ 01:35

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omg i have tried to burn ubuntu 7.10 like 5 times and i still cant get it to work without errors... so is there a way to just boot from the iso off an external hdd or some other way without burning it to a cd?

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varnull

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31. January 2008 @ 09:10

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So you trying to burn at 52x or what?..

Ubuntu have forums.. ask them

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xupal

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31. January 2008 @ 14:43

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iv asked on ubuntu forums but they say the same thing. burn it at lowest speed check md5 sum ect ect ect i have done all that over and over again and it still doesnt work

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varnull

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31. January 2008 @ 22:05

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OK.. fair enough.. (I found the ubuntu forums very unhelpful.. seems like it is full of new and inexperienced users)

It isn't reading at all I take it.. just spinning and spinning and nothing happening..

Is this in a dvd drive by any chance?.. if so try a plain old cd-rom drive.. for some reason linux isn't keen on booting from dvd drives sometimes.

They suggested checking in your bios for the correct boot device I suppose~?

Just out of interest exactly how did you burn the cd? You did burn it as an image, not just drag and drop the iso file....

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xupal

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1. February 2008 @ 01:01

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yes it is a dvd drive. and it is pretty new :S i tried burning it on a different computer (again with a dvd drive) and it didnt work. i've tried burning the cd and dvd version. i dont have a cd-rom drive so that isnt an option. i might try a different version of linux to see if there is something wrong with the iso on the server. (doubt it tho)

first time i burned it the settings were 4x using imgburn and it did boot up but i clicked check cd for errors and it found 13

second same thing but it found 18 errors

third time it found 16 (i dont understand why they all have a different number of errors)

then i tried nero burn it at 8x and it found 138 (i think) and this was the dvd version

then i tried infarecorder and i used the tutorial on their website and it found 6 errors

then i tried imgburn again and more errors

so i am not making a data disk because it does boot up and if i explore the cd in windows it shows a bunch of files not just the iso

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varnull

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1. February 2008 @ 01:43

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cool.. I think it's the dvd drive giving you problems.. You could try the sabayon i386 version.. I know that will boot and install brilliantly from a dvd.

You could always try putting a minimal netinstall iso on a usb drive and booting from that.. there are guides around for just that on the ubuntu forums somewhere. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/01/25/usb-x-ubuntu-610/

Don't know why some hardware doesn't like linux boot disks from a dvd drive, but it's common enough to almost be a stock fault.

Oh.. BTW.. it's fine to burn a netinstall linux iso to a cd-rw or dvd-rw as well.

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xupal

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1. February 2008 @ 01:53

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do i just put the iso file and boot from usb? or do i have to do something with the iso file?

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varnull

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1. February 2008 @ 12:55

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Check the link.. My systems don't boot from usb

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xupal

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1. February 2008 @ 14:42

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thats to install it on a flash drive... not from one

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varnull

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1. February 2008 @ 18:45

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I can work it out from there.. you put a live distro like ubuntu (which has a live cd option.. ubuntu-live?) on the flashdrive and run it as live.. there is an install option accessible from the live distro once it is running.. so you partition the HDD /dev/hda with gparted into /(root) /home and /swap.

Then you run the installer from the usb with the target as dev/hda1 and voila.. :lol: Install grub to the MBR (dev/hda0) and reboot.. that should bring you to a fully functional basic install which you can update and add to.

real technical, and not done by me.. either that or look for a dvd distro download.. sabayon, and I think both suse and debian have dvd releases.

Didn't know I knew so much :lol:

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