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GlennW
February 22nd, 2011, 02:56 AM
I've created a live usb with Startup Disk Creator on my desktop running Ubuntu 10.10. The live usb is Mint 10 (Julia). I wish to overwrite Ubuntu 10.04 running on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. The reason for this is that Mint requires fewer resources and is better suited for my laptop duties.

I have used the live usb solution for several installs and never had a problem. Following protocol, I shut down the laptop, inserted the live usb and restarted. Nadda......

I made sure that the USB is the 1st boot device in the BIOS.

Upon restart, a line comes up with this:
Code:


vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image
boot:

It just repeats itself every 10 seconds.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using a Verbatim 8.0 GB usb.

Thanks.

GlennW
February 22nd, 2011, 03:32 PM
Bump.....

Why can't I make a live usb that works? All I want to do is replace Ubuntu 10.04 with Mint 10.

Thanks.

Quackers
February 22nd, 2011, 03:42 PM
I had problems making a workable live usb with 10.10
I finally made one by booting into 10.04 and making one with that version's Startup Disk Creator. I believe there have been others with the same difficulty.