<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt">Hello Andrew<br><br>Thank you for the information. I would have figured all USB flash stickes were the same.<br><br>Gortdon<br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:54 AM, Andrew Sallee <ajsallee@faceofthepenguin.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9619812706"><div><div>1. These directions will only make an Ubuntu distro, as I recall. There is a different technique necessary to make a
bootable drive for a different distro.</div><div>2. Some USB sticks just can't be made bootable. try a different stick; check the list of tested sticks to make sure it can work.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%;">Sent from Samsung tablet</div></div> <br>James Stroehmann <jaymz@jaymz.org> wrote:<br><div>You ever get this working. </div><div><br><br>------</div><div><br>On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:25 PM, gordon webb <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:gordonwebb1@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:gordonwebb1@yahoo.com">gordonwebb1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"><div>Hello All<br>
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When making Start up USB I got the message "Failed to install boot
loader". I am thinking this is why I have been unable to do an install
on my labtop. What do I need to do to make a working start up USB
stick?<br>
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I am using a Dell Ispiron 530 with Ububtu 12.04 to creat the start up USB and following the directions at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick</a><br>
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When I looked at what got saved on the USB stick their are 9 folders, 3
sheet icons, and one icon with gears labled wubi.exe. I clicked on the
wubi.exe icon and the following came up in an "Archive Mannager" box:<br>
<br>
An error ocured while loading the archive.<br>
<br>
Archive: /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe<br>
[/media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe]<br>
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not<br>
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the<br>
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on<br>
the last disk(s) of this archive.<br>
note: /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive<br>
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe or<br>
/media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe.ZIP, period.<br>
<br>
Gordon33
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