brsmits
March 23rd, 2011, 08:31 PM
Bought a Sony Vaio P off ebay and am currently trying to install Ubuntu on it.
I downloaded the 32bit desktop edition of 10.10 on my other computer (running 10.04), put in my 8GB flash drive, formatted it as FAT, went to System>>Admin>>Startup Disk Creator, selected my flash drive. It did its thing just fine.
When I boot off the flash drive, it displays the splash of 10.10 for about 30 seconds then shows:
BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
from there it seems to be a bash shell but I can't get it to boot to an installer. I have done a few searches on this and can find no meaningful solution. I am looking to wipe the HDD and install 10.10.
I have also tried this with a download of 10.04, and I get the same thing, I don't know how it could be a hardware issue, but I am a linux newbie.
Any thoughts? Ideas? Any other information needed that would help? Please let me know!
I downloaded the 32bit desktop edition of 10.10 on my other computer (running 10.04), put in my 8GB flash drive, formatted it as FAT, went to System>>Admin>>Startup Disk Creator, selected my flash drive. It did its thing just fine.
When I boot off the flash drive, it displays the splash of 10.10 for about 30 seconds then shows:
BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
from there it seems to be a bash shell but I can't get it to boot to an installer. I have done a few searches on this and can find no meaningful solution. I am looking to wipe the HDD and install 10.10.
I have also tried this with a download of 10.04, and I get the same thing, I don't know how it could be a hardware issue, but I am a linux newbie.
Any thoughts? Ideas? Any other information needed that would help? Please let me know!