Problem reinstalling Xubuntu 16.04 - SOLVED

[Colin Law]

On 23 July 2017 at 13:19, Anton Matsiuk <denixx.baykin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I've tried to install ubuntu server 16.04.2 on my second pc a week ago, and
> when I ran installation from flashdrive, burned thru unetbootin, an
> installation warned me that I may be in trouble with unetbootin-burned
> usb-stick.

What do you mean that the installation warned you that you may be in trouble?

Colin

> I have never had problems with LiLi USB Creator, so I powered down PC, and
> burned the same USB-stick with same iso from win 7 VM I had somewhere in
> VirtualBox. After that I have not seen that warning.
>
>
> чт, 20 июл. 2017 г., 10:10 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 19 July 2017 at 23:27, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On 19 July 2017 at 08:04, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> After running into the same drop-into-busybox problem trying to
>> >>> install my new HP laptop from the same Patriot flash drive I created
>> >>> via unetbootin, I decided to use a DVD.
>> >>
>> >> Had you tried the boot option to check the files on the flash drive?
>> >>
>> > Early on, and I've re-installed that flash drive a few times as well,
>> > all with the same image.  No help there.
>>
>> Strange
>>
>> >
>> > I have a couple of other drives I can put it on and see it that helps,
>> > but hopefully I won't need it before 16.04.3 or later comes out, or
>> > (preferably) never.
>>
>> You don't need to re-install when going to 16.04.3, the normal day to
>> day updates will ensure you end up with virtually the same system as
>> re-installing.
>>
>> >
>> >>> Worked flawlessly.
>> >>>
>> >>> It seems, at least for me, the unetbootin Xubuntu flash drive is NOT
>> >>> installable.  It has failed in every system I have.  Looks like I'll
>> >>> be trusting the still more ubiquitous DVD install image until further
>> >>> notice.
>> >>
>> >> Do you mean you used a different image or just burned the same image
>> >> onto DVD instead of flash?
>> >>
>> > Same image burned onto a DVD.  If I knew where my first one of these
>> > was, I'd have used it, but...
>>
>> I wonder whether it is a problem to do with USB on that particular PC,
>> though I have no idea what.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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