Trying to install ubuntu using a memory stick
I just thought to let this go. I have figured out, after wasting an entire day, that I have to hve the sdd to install to on my machine when I start and then make sure I boot from the memory stick. Other than that nobody need reply to anything unless its to point out that I am not particularly intelligent. I thought I had read that I had to install the target sometime later than initial start. I was flat out wrong.
I have created a memory stick which, in theory, will install ubuntu into a machine. I will be using a 1tb ssd as the main drive for the system. Here is what I have been doing. I put the memory stick (startup system stick) into the machine. The machine itself has no drives, other stick, etc. on or in it. I pull the power on the machine and then plug it back in and start it. After I turn on the machine, after a little bit of time, the system asks me what I want to do. I press the one that asks whether I want to try or install ubuntu. I press that I want to try. That takes me to another screen. I then run gparted and that is where I am running into problems. After checking me when starting gparted I have it on the screen. It shows me what is hooked up on the machine. I have tested this a lot. gparted tells me that /dev/sda/ 29.30 gib and /dev/sdb/ 29.30 gib It tells me whether I have an ssd attached or not! I have tried to delete them, find them, etc. and have no idea what its all about. I have no idea why or where they comes from. I do know that, if I have a 1tb ssd attached that it should know its there. It happens no matter when the ssd in installed. I have stopped at this point because it makes no sense to me. this is approximately where I tell it to start with an a 1tb ssd but its not there. Oh, Just to make sure I also connected some ssd's with something on them and that worked just fine showing me that my connections with the ssd tests were just fine.
So, I skipped that and moved directly to installing ubuntu. There were some more questions, etc. Then it asked me where to install and my choice was, as far as I could tell the 31gb memory stick (which was doing all of this stuff as well). That was crazy. It completely ignored the 1tb ssd. I think one of them would have actually started to boot but I was just making sure that my connection with them was real and powered. I am tempted to let it install but the only thing, besides the 1tb ssd is the memory stick. if I let it go I will then have a memory stick with ubuntu on it I think.
For some reason the ssd's that I am trying to put ubuntu on are not being seen by the machines. When I goto the try place I can then run programs and one that I ran, Disks, did not show the ssd's as being loaded. That being the case my question becomes whether or why that cannot happen. I am going to take another machine apart and put that ssd on and see if I can just make it run.
I took an sdd, from another machine, plugged it in, turned it on and it came right up! For some reason its just not finding the sdd's to be installed but when they have been they work just fine. Seems I am unable to install Ubuntu!
Anyway, given my history I tend to believe that I have done something that makes no sense. I would be grateful for any thoughts..........
Thoughts?
Last edited by jgw; 4 Weeks Ago at 11:57 PM.
Memory: 16gb
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2600 CPU
Graphics: NVC1
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 Gnome: 42.9
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