| tvin | hi | 21:36 |
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| valorie | hello tvin | 21:43 |
| tvin | valorie, would you be able to help me with a technical issue? | 21:43 |
| valorie | perhaps, but that isn't really on topic here | 21:44 |
| valorie | whatcha got? | 21:44 |
| tvin | Trying to figure out how to make a usb live install | 21:45 |
| valorie | ah, I don't have the bots here | 21:45 |
| tvin | I used unebootin and it looked like it installed, but it won't boot | 21:45 |
| tvin | bots? | 21:45 |
| valorie | why not in #ubuntu? | 21:45 |
| valorie | bots have nice bits of info such as links | 21:45 |
| valorie | so first, did you verify the image? | 21:45 |
| tvin | no | 21:46 |
| tvin | I don't know exactly how to do that | 21:46 |
| tvin | Is it a big deal if I don't? | 21:47 |
| valorie | <ubottu> To verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which an MD5 checksum is provided), see http://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM or http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LQ_ISO/Checking_the_md5sum_in_Windows | 21:47 |
| valorie | I msg'd the bot instead | 21:47 |
| valorie | no, but if you have an incomplete or otherwise corrupted image, it won't boot no matter what | 21:48 |
| valorie | md5sum just checks for a good image to start with | 21:48 |
| valorie | easy and quick | 21:48 |
| tvin | How do I determine what the checksum is suppose to be in the first place? | 21:48 |
| valorie | where did you download the ISO? | 21:49 |
| tvin | from ubuntu | 21:49 |
| valorie | I use torrents which are automatically checked | 21:49 |
| tvin | I did | 21:49 |
| valorie | on that page should be an md5sum | 21:50 |
| valorie | ok, if you used torrents, it's correct | 21:50 |
| valorie | and unetbootin reported success | 21:50 |
| valorie | and I suppose it checks too -- been an age since I used it | 21:51 |
| tvin | seemed to have said it was installed successfully | 21:51 |
| valorie | cool | 21:51 |
| valorie | so, either unetbootin screwed it up, which is possible | 21:51 |
| valorie | or you have a bad thumbdrive | 21:51 |
| valorie | which is also highly possible | 21:51 |
| tvin | Thumbdrive opens fine and shows me the files | 21:52 |
| tvin | How do I check if there is a issue? | 21:52 |
| valorie | tell me how you tried to boot from the drive? | 21:52 |
| tvin | Set cmos to boot from external drive, and then rebooted. Even tried disabling HDD boot | 21:53 |
| valorie | I mean, do you have "boot from USB if present" on top of the booting options? | 21:53 |
| valorie | ok | 21:53 |
| tvin | yes | 21:53 |
| valorie | do you have another thumbdrive around? | 21:54 |
| valorie | probably easiest to just burn to another drive if you have one | 21:54 |
| tvin | assuming I dont get the same results | 21:54 |
| valorie | otherwise, use dd to burn the thumbdrive | 21:54 |
| tvin | dd? | 21:54 |
| valorie | which is also easy, but a bit nailbiting | 21:54 |
| valorie | hmmm, ubottu doesn't have a quick n' easy for dd | 21:55 |
| valorie | it's a commandline tool | 21:55 |
| valorie | man dd in your konsole or terminal | 21:56 |
| valorie | oh, you're not using kubuntu, so console | 21:56 |
| tvin | man dd path to ISO? | 21:56 |
| valorie | https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_flash_installation_media | 21:58 |
| valorie | has a very good explanation | 21:58 |
| valorie | caution: setting your destination wrong will over write | 21:58 |
| valorie | you can wreck your HD by setting it up wrong | 21:58 |
| valorie | I wish you were asking in #ubuntu where there are lots more skilled folks than me | 21:59 |
| tvin | that is for archlinux | 21:59 |
| valorie | this really is not a help chan | 21:59 |
| valorie | dd works the same everywhere | 21:59 |
| valorie | basically just replace the actual path to your ubuntu iso from the directions | 22:01 |
| valorie | Tip: Find out the name of your USB drive with lsblk. Make sure that it is not mounted. | 22:01 |
| valorie | Run the following command, replacing /dev/sdx with your drive, e.g. /dev/sdb. (do not append a partition number, so do not use something like /dev/sdb1): | 22:01 |
| valorie | # dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress && sync | 22:01 |
| tvin | Do I "eject volume" so it isn't mounted? | 22:04 |
| tvin | valorie, ? | 22:07 |
| valorie | hmmm, not in kubuntu, but I assume so | 22:08 |
| tvin | How do I use lsblk to determine path? | 22:10 |
| valorie | http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45820/how-to-umount-a-usb-drive has a more complete discussion of doing this on the commandline | 22:10 |
| tvin | still need to know the proper path to the usb drive | 22:11 |
| valorie | I just tried this, to prove it works: lsblk without a usb | 22:15 |
| valorie | plug in usb | 22:15 |
| valorie | lsblk | 22:15 |
| valorie | and find that it is /dev/sdc | 22:15 |
| valorie | as in the archlinux example | 22:16 |
| tvin | "No command 'lsblk' found" | 22:16 |
| valorie | sudo apt install lsblk | 22:17 |
| tvin | "sudo: apt: command not found" | 22:18 |
| valorie | so pmount /dev/sdc works, although I had to install pmount | 22:18 |
| tvin | works to do what? | 22:21 |
| valorie | to ensure that the drive is unmounted | 22:22 |
| tvin | Well still need to determine path, and a way to install | 22:23 |
| valorie | dd bs=4M if=/home/valorie/ISOs/sampleubuntu.iso of /dev/sdc status=progress && sync is what I would do | 22:25 |
| valorie | lsblk tells you whether the USB is sda, b, c, whatever | 22:25 |
| tvin | "dd: unrecognized operand `of'" | 22:27 |
| tvin | I told you, that command didnt work to install lsblk | 22:28 |
| valorie | tvin: how old is your ubuntu? | 22:29 |
| tvin | 11.4 | 22:29 |
| valorie | of course you can use apt-get if you want, although that's old..... | 22:29 |
| valorie | uh, that's no longer supported | 22:29 |
| tvin | that's why Im trying to make this usb live of current version... | 22:30 |
| valorie | 12.04 was an LTS, as well as 14.04 | 22:30 |
| valorie | got it | 22:30 |
| valorie | so sudo apt-get lsblk | 22:30 |
| tvin | E: Invalid operation lsblk | 22:30 |
| valorie | messed up! | 22:31 |
| valorie | sorry, I'm leaving, please us #ubuntu for more help | 22:32 |
| tvin | I can't | 22:35 |
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