Cannot run Ubuntu Netbook remix

[ryanshaw]

I would love to dump XP and use Ubuntu Remix instead. This has been quite an ordeal trying to get this to run from a USB and very disappointing.

First, the website instructions are for an img file which doesn’t exist. I had to determine this through searching online as I thought the instructions would be at least accurate.

Second, I used instructions from pendrivelinux which only creates a USB that says “Could not find kernel image: /casper/cmlinux”

Third, used Ubuntu 9.10 desktop and usb-creator. Could not use the iso file from ubuntu.com. Searched online and found this bug saying its corrupt: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/500526

After two days, I cannot even get Remix to run and I don’t feel very comfortable in replacing my slow bloated XP anymore...


Has anyone got this working at all?

[Bucky Ball]

What machine?

Try installing Ubuntu and then adding Remix to that through the package manager. You can just add it in.

[ryanshaw]

UPDATED:

Thanks for the speedy reply... interesting I didn’t know you can also install that way.

As an update to my previous post, I installed usb-creator for windows (which I didn’t know existed). That provided an error message that the iso is corrupted.

I downloaded the iso file again, and that worked....

I would never have thought it was a bad download because I was able to view the files iniside the iso.

[Sky Aisling]

Hi Ryan,

I realize this thread is a bit old, but, in case you come back to read it again.

When you downloaded the remix .iso did you do a *md5sum* check on the file?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

This check helps a lot.

:)