Installing Ubuntu from flash drive

[Earl Melton]

For a few seconds, I get the familiar pink (purple?) screen with some 
little icon in the lower center of it, then it just goes away. On the 
first try, it just went to a black screen, but with a very faint 
pink/purple flash every 2 or 3 seconds. Knowing the Live CD is very slow 
to boot, I gave it an hour or more while tending to other things, then 
gave up and forced a hard reset. 2nd time around, it just went to 
blinking, colored horizontal lines through the raster, but never went 
further. This almost looked like a misadjusted resolution setting under 
Appearance Settings. I figured the CD drive was just going south since 
Win-Vista Home Premium works fine on the PC. It's a Compaq/HP, probably 
3 or more years old. I can get further information if needed. AFAIK, the 
graphics is probably a part of the mobo, but don't really know that to 
be true. I'll see him later today and can try to get a model number if 
that would help. I really try to stay out of the internal workings of a 
PC and take it to my "computer guy" when there's a major problem. I've 
installed 10.04 on 3 others from the CD w/no problems, though. Thanks 
for the reply and offer of help!

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Have a blessed day!
   <><  Earl

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On 08/19/2010 11:11 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 11:27 AM, Earl Melton wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am a newbie to Linux and Ubuntu and have been reading this list for a few
>> weeks now. I wanted to install it on a friend's PC, but his CD drive apparently
>> has problems as I've tried twice and it never fully boots to the live CD. I
>> think I have read about creating an install from a USB drive, but had no need
>> for it until now. If this is possible, can someone give me the step-by-step
>> procedure for doing it? Does it take a [special] flash drive, or will any do? I
>> assume I would need to tell the BIOS to look for a bootable thumb drive? My
>> apologies if I am totally wrong on this.
>>      
> You've not mentioned exactly what happens when you attempt to boot with
> the liveCD. I doubt that the USB path will help much. Perhaps you can
> tell us what exactly happens when you attempt to boot from the liveCD,
> and also provide specifics as to what the friend's hardware is -
> including which graphic card the system uses, which particular liveCD
> you used, and if the liveCD passes the liveCD tests provided by the main
> menu?
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