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lupo1939
February 10th, 2011, 05:38 PM
I downloaded 10.10 and burned it to a CD. When boot is attempted from the CD it spins and a 'stickman' appears at the bottom of the screen. No message(s). If I press and hold enter, the screen to select language appears. After English is selected 5 choices are listed:
Try without install
Install
Check disk
Test memory
Boot from hard disk
I want to try 10.10 without doing an install. When that option is selected the CD spins but nothing happens. I have tried check disk with the same results. Test memory works.
What am I doing wrong?
dino99
February 10th, 2011, 05:50 PM
is it with the "alternate" cd ?
lupo1939
February 10th, 2011, 06:24 PM
Not sure what you mean by alternate. I set the bios to boot from the CD as first choice. The CD was burned from a download. Is there a way to check the 'health' of the CD?
plucky
February 10th, 2011, 07:29 PM
Did you run an MD5SUM on the downloaded ISO?

See HowTo MD5SUM (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM)


Is there a way to check the 'health' of the CD?


That is the "Check disk" option on the list.

Is the light on the CD drive flashing when you are select "Try without install" option?
lupo1939
February 12th, 2011, 06:53 PM
The light on the CD drive blinks on and off, slowly. Nothing seems to happen, however, even if left to run for some time.

Will read the MD5SUM directions and report back after running.
mörgæs
February 12th, 2011, 09:39 PM
How much memory does the machine have?
lupo1939
February 12th, 2011, 10:44 PM
machine has 4mb of memory.

I read the md5sum instructions but cant get the cd command to work.

File name is ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
I've tried several combinations for a prefix, including none, but get
ted@Teds:~$ cd ted.desktop.ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
bash: cd: ted.desktop.ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso: No such file or directory
as a reply. What does it want for file name?
plucky
February 13th, 2011, 12:44 AM
machine has 4mb of memory.

I assume 4 Gigabyte of memory

This command makes no sense

cd ted.desktop.ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso

It should be
cd ~/Desktop if the file is on your Desktop.

Which is the same as
cd /home/ted/Desktop/

Linux is case sensitive.

Then
md5sum ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso

Hope this helps

Good Luck
lupo1939
February 13th, 2011, 06:44 PM
The download is bad. The first 4 characters in the hash document are f59d, from running the md5sum command f64c. Guess I need to do another download. If it doesn't work, I'll have to buy a 10.10 CD.

If the snow ever melts, I'm changing ISPs.