[NBLUG/talk] Installation problem

[Michael Tucker]

Good evening Alan,

To load your iso onto a thumb dive using windows I would recommend software
from here: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/. You should be able to
overwrite existing linux installations on said partition once you create a
proper thumb drive to boot from. Hope this helps.

Thank you,
Michael
On Oct 6, 2013 7:40 PM, "Alan Bloom" <n1al at sonic.net> wrote:

> I used to have Ubuntu Linux dual-booted with Windows XP Pro but some time
> ago, after one of the automatic Ubuntu updates, the network card stopped
> working.  (It still worked fine under Windoze.)  I spent many hours trying
> solutions I found on the Internet but was never able to solve the problem.
>  I think it was version 11.something.
>
> So now I am trying a clean install using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  I already have
> two partitions set up on the hard disc and I want to install Linux on the
> second partition.  I tried using the installer program from the Ubuntu web
> site, but that insists on placing it in the same partition as Windows (as a
> Windows directory).
>
> If you just do the normal download from the Ubuntu web site, what you get
> is a .iso file.  I tried putting that on a thumb drive and booting from
> that (the computer is set up to boot from USB).  When I do that I get a
> "boot:" prompt, but when I hit the ENTER key, I get an error message,
> "Could not find kernel image: linux".  I tried extracting the .iso file to
> the same thumb drive but it wouldn't boot from that either.
>
> I also tried to store the .iso file to a CD-ROM but it is 4 or 5 Mbytes
> too large to fit on a CD.
>
> I would be happy just to purchase the 12.04LTS CD from Ubuntu if I could
> be sure it would work.
>
> Again, what I am trying to accomplish is to install Ubuntu into an
> already-existing partition on the hard disc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
>
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