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jetint8ke
April 14th, 2013, 06:31 PM
i wnat to do a clean instal on my computer ,i go to the Cmos boot tab ,and the choices i have are:

C128
zip
atapi mo
usb fdd
usb zip
which one do i use to boot in ,so i can install ubuntu 12.10 Lt
jetint8ke
April 14th, 2013, 07:07 PM
i did make my USB bootable using penguin
oldfred
April 14th, 2013, 07:46 PM
If USB drive is bootable and plugged in, on my system it appears as another hard drive.
C.S.Cameron
April 14th, 2013, 08:25 PM
You can create a Live USB using Startup Disk Creator from the Live CD or using UNetbootin.
jetint8ke
April 14th, 2013, 09:29 PM
the only chioces are as follows
C128
zip
Atapi MO
USB FDD
USB Zip
oldfred
April 14th, 2013, 09:55 PM
Is your flash drive labeled c128? It may just show it by name.
jetint8ke
April 15th, 2013, 12:18 AM
@ oldfred ,it's not c128,the only one that seems to boot up is USB FDD,but the screen is black and there is a cursor the runs from right to left ,thats it ,i let the computer furn for 30 minutes to see if it was installing very slow and nothing happen ,the computer i want to install it on ,has no operating system on it,oh and i did try doing it with unetbooting also and nothing happen
oldfred
April 15th, 2013, 12:31 AM
If you use ATAPI what does that give? That should be a hard drive.

FDD refers to a floppy drive, so it was having trouble reading your floppy drive connected by USB. It may have tried reading the flash as a floppy but the data is formatted so differently it would not ever work.
jetint8ke
April 15th, 2013, 12:58 AM
@oldfred,i tried all the choices avialible the only one that pretends to work is USBFDD,and i only get acursor running at the bottom of the black screen
oldfred
April 15th, 2013, 04:37 AM
Are you sure USB flash drive is correctly configured. With my systems they do not show in BIOS unless bootable.
jetint8ke
April 18th, 2013, 03:33 AM
i finally got the other computer to boot from the USB ,now the problem is that the monitor goes black and says ,no signal ,and it shuts off
oldfred
April 18th, 2013, 04:38 AM
What Video do you have?
I had similar with my nVidia, but when installing from flash drive I noticed install was proceeding, just monitor was off.
Since they change something in kernel many version ago I have had to use nomodeset on every live boot or first boot after install or until I install nVidia drives from repository.

How to set NOMODESET and other kernel boot options in grub2 - both liveCD & first boot, but different
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions


Graphics Resolution- Upgrade /Blank Screen after reboot mega thread - MAFoElffen
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1743535