<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><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 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 href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick" target="_blank">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>
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An error ocured while loading the archive.<br>
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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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