On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Tim wrote:
On 14/07/13 20:53, James Freer wrote:
I'd be grateful if someone could advise. I've been a Ubuntu/Xubuntu
user since 2007. I want to install ubuntu-gnome but i'm a little
unsure of how to do it with these larger isos for USB/DVD.
If one installs unetbootin; one has the option of downloading via
a] distribution - i did this for xubuntu and it seems to select an iso
from 'live' and all ok to then use in conjunction with PLoP. For some
strange reason my two year old PC will not boot from USB despite going
into the bios... i just seem to have an option for booting from
removable media CD/DVD ok but not USB.
b] As ubuntu-gnome isn't on the list i was going to do the manual
Diskimage route... downloading the iso first. I found trying to do
Diskimage and selecting the downloaded iso didn't seem to work.
That should work. What happened? any error messages/logs?
Thanks for your reply. A second attempt and no problems - i was confused why
i couldn't find the home directory where the iso was but it is just different
listing of the directories. I seemed stuck in the File system as i thought but
didn't spot /home.
Do any of you use PLoP for booting the usb? For some reason neither of my
machines (main PC only two years old) won't boot on the usb so i am going to
use PLoP. Thing is IF one is going to use PLoP why does one need to use
unetbootin for the usb. I thought if PLoP is going to provide the 'bootup' -
why can't one just copy the iso to a usb.
I've now had two cdroms die on me on another machine which i was going to use
to learn some compiling. I was going to get another CD/DVD but it seems IDE
ones are no longer available. So i was going to use the 3.5 floppy for PLoP and
switch from xubuntu to ubuntu-gnome (as it seems xubuntu doesn't recognise 3.5
drives either as internal drive or usb drive (i have both)). Does ubuntu-gnome?
or has *buntu dropped support for 3.5 floppy. I know some folk consider them
old fashioned but useful for booting off. The 3.5 floppy was certainly
recognised by ubuntu 9.xx which was the last two versions i used before
switching to xubuntu.
james
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