10.10 LiveCD and USB Problem

[Geffers]

I'm going to hold off on upgrading my 10.04 system owing to problems with the iso.

I tried two beta isos from different locations and neither installed correctly using unetbootin, installation appeared to go fine but would not boot, reported could not find init.

Downloaded the released version and the liveCD fails to run many of the accessories (synaptic, terminal, gparted).

The startup USB utility did run but reported that it failed to install the bootloader.

Firefox for some obscure reason crashed out every time I tried www.bbc.co.uk although numerous other URLs loaded fine.

I'm sure the beta testers gave it a good run but so far I've had problems with three different ISOs so for the moment will stay with 10.04

Geffers

[sikander3786]

Hi.

10.04 is an LTS release and I'm going to stick with it for at least 2 years :-) It is all setup, running fine so no more problems on my production machines.

Regarding your problem, first of all check the integrity of the downloaded image.

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

Secondly, don't use Unetbooting from the repositories. Try downloading the new version from

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net

On my testing PCs. Maverick is running fine without the problems you mentioned above, there are a few bugs reported but not the ones you encountered.

[efflandt]

syslinux in 10.10 is different and I am not sure if the Startup Disk Creator in 10-04 has been fixed yet to work with 10.10. But the unetbootin version in 10.04 may not be aware of that yet. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Startup Disk Creator in 10.10 does work fine for 10.10 iso, except for one minor issue. While installing on 4 GB USB flash, the slider for persistent data was able to go up to 4 GB (max file size for FAT32) even though the iso would take up about 700 MB and the entire formatted flash was only 3.7 GB. But I knew I did not have room for 4 GB, so I set persistent data to 2 GB (which leaves some available FAT32 space). I had to enable universe and multiverse repositories in Synaptic to see ubuntu-restricted-extras, but with that installed and the thing enabled for DVD, Firefox does fine with flash and the system is able to play DVD's.

[Geffers]

Hi.

10.04 is an LTS release and I'm going to stick with it for at least 2 years :-) It is all setup, running fine so no more problems on my production machines.

Regarding your problem, first of all check the integrity of the downloaded image.

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

Secondly, don't use Unetbooting from the repositories. Try downloading the new version from

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net

On my testing PCs. Maverick is running fine without the problems you mentioned above, there are a few bugs reported but not the ones you encountered.

I too will stay with 10.04, I intended just trying the live iso on a USB key and giving it a good few months test before considering changing.

I didn't check the integrity of any iso as I didn't intend installing but will do so out of curiosity.

I actually used a windows version of unetbootin as my iso was on a windows machine.

Geffers

[Geffers]

syslinux in 10.10 is different and I am not sure if the Startup Disk Creator in 10-04 has been fixed yet to work with 10.10. But the unetbootin version in 10.04 may not be aware of that yet. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
.

I used the Startup Disk Creator from the 10.10 liveCD.

A friend gave me a known good copy of 10.10 so I'll give that one a go.

Geffers