Installing, help?

Swrls

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I'm trying to install with no previous os, however when trying to boot from usb it is asking for windows recovery media and not recognizing the linux ios....ideas?
 


first thought.. is your machine set to first boot usb on start up?
second thought... can you enter the short boot sequence during startup? [see link below]
third thought, how old is your equipment? is it so old it doesn't support USB boot [dose it have an optical drive you can boot from?]

see https://www.linux.org/threads/a-common-question-how-do-i-boot-to-usb.34368/

hope this may help..
Bwiz
 
G'day Swrls, Welcome to Linux.org

That could mean a couple of things, but the most likely is that the usb has nothing on it or it is not bootable.

Which app/program did you use to put the .iso onto the usb
 
G'day Swrls, Welcome to Linux.org

That could mean a couple of things, but the most likely is that the usb has nothing on it or it is not bootable.

Which app/program did you use to put the .iso onto the usb
I down loaded Ubuntu on my laptop then just drag and dropped the file to a usb flash drive. The system I'm trying to install it on is a lenovo think centre the small ones m73 I believe. It originally had windows 8 installed but when I received it the hard drive had been formated so when you power it up it's looking for windows and asks for windows media. I went into bios and selected it to boot from usb but came back the same.
 
just drag and dropped the file to a usb flash drive.
@Condobloke hit the nail on the head you can't drag and drop an iso file , it has to be burnt as a bootable device using one of the available usb bootable programs a popular one for windows users is..unetbootin.github.io
 
ok @Swrls the only system where you can drag and drop iso files that i know of is with "Ventoy" https://ventoy.net/en/index.html in all other cases the ".iso" has to be "appropriately- in the right way " copied to a usb stick

Thats can be done using dd command on an already installed linux system or using one of the available tools to do it such as etcher, rufus . on unetbootin i've had problems with it
 
You have advice from @captain-sensible above.....another alternative would be Balena Etcher

It is simple and quick.

Once you have a bootable usb stick, your approach of booting from that usb stick is the way to go.
 
ok @Swrls the only system where you can drag and drop iso files that i know of is with "Ventoy" https://ventoy.net/en/index.html in all other cases the ".iso" has to be "appropriately- in the right way " copied to a usb stick

Thats can be done using dd command on an already installed linux system or using one of the available tools to do it such as etcher, rufus . on unetbootin i've had problems with it
Thank you for the reply.
 
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