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Tweedle
December 16th, 2010, 10:39 PM
I decided to give Natty a little test run and chose to Installl it from my USB drive. I have done quite a few times before using the USB Creator thats in the root of the .iso I make sure the USB drive has a FAT32 partition that is empty. I load the .iso in Windows with DTLite and mount it as a drive. Then run USB Creator, it finishes successfuly, and I restart to boot the usb stick. When I try to boot, it's loads SYSLINUX, shows this on the first line of the screen, and hangs indefinatly. This has never happend before with any of the other versions and I figured since it's still in testing, I needed to let someone know. If you need anymore information feel free to email me at digitalmastertaco@gmail.com

I'm not sure if the right people are going to see this, but if anyone reading this can forward to the appropiate team, I think they might like to hear this.

I am in Fedora now using dd to copy the iso straight to the usb. I have also done this numerous times sucessfully with never an issue. If this does not work correctly, I am going to get the latest .iso and try with that. If it still doesnt not work, I am going to assume I am not at fault and that this message is fairly significant. So please if you can get this to the right people. Thanks

Tweedle

dabl
December 16th, 2010, 11:22 PM
There's a Natty forum here: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=394

wilee-nilee
December 16th, 2010, 11:29 PM
Just use unetbootin, if you just want a install thumb.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

You could also use this.http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-multiboot-usb/

There is a download for creating the casper-rw persistent set up scroll down and see additional notes.

Tweedle
December 17th, 2010, 12:06 AM
thanks guys, i figured it might be my fault :/ i just got the newest daily, and im using unetbootin as we speak. i'll let u know how it turned out. cheers

wilee-nilee
December 17th, 2010, 12:14 AM
thanks guys, i figured it might be my fault :/ i just got the newest daily, and im using unetbootin as we speak. i'll let u know how it turned out. cheers

Not sure of your setup but be careful with natty it is a bit unstable a lot of changes happening, I gave up trying to run it for now I don't want to babysit a development. ;)