(X)ubuntu installation over Slackware

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Mitt Green

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Hello everybody.

I was using Slackware and decided to move into Xubuntu. I moved ISO-image to USB-stick using Win32 (I borrowed Windows computer because I don't know how to install Unetbootin on Slackware). Since I enter BIOS, it hase TWO Ubuntus (two, because there were TWO folders in /boot) (one is written Ubuntu, second is just ubuntu) but both move me into grub, where I see
seems like it requires some command, maybe some knows what to do?
I'd started creating menuentry kinda I have ISO on USB but then understood that I've already have bootable flash (ha-ha). Though, if driving via secure boot off, then clicking USB drive, there is "no bootable device found". Help me, please.

Thank you.
 
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I am slightly worried when you say that you have the ISO on a USB stick.
I moved ISO-image to USB-stick using Win32
I have ISO on USB
This suggests that you have simply moved the ISO to a USB stick - which is a common newbie mistake...

Like on a CD , you need to "burn" the ISO - a special action to create a Linux bootable device. Point of interest, how many files can you see on the USB stick? Few/One=Not burnt properly. Lots=More likely burnt properly.

You can burn from Linux using the dd command. Look at http://askubuntu.com/questions/59551/how-to-burn-a-iso-to-a-usb-device - the second answer that has a score of 12.

Alternatively you can burn from Windows. See e.g. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
 
I am slightly worried when you say that you have the ISO on a USB stick. This suggests that you have simply moved the ISO to a USB stick - which is a common newbie mistake...

Like on a CD , you need to "burn" the ISO - a special action to create a Linux bootable device. Point of interest, how many files can you see on the USB stick? Few/One=Not burnt properly. Lots=More likely burnt properly.

You can burn from Linux using the dd command. Look at http://askubuntu.com/questions/59551/how-to-burn-a-iso-to-a-usb-device - the second answer that has a score of 12.

Alternatively you can burn from Windows. See e.g. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
Thank you, but now I have problem how to install gparted on Slackware, because I can't modify or edit any data on USB even in root. I though Win32 makes flash devices bootable like Unetbootin.
I am slightly worried when you say that you have the ISO on a USB stick.
I mean, I start making menuentry but then caught that I'd already created bootable USB. And I didn't just move ISO to USB, I did it with Win32.
 
I borrowed Windows computer because I don't know how to install Unetbootin on Slackware

The easiest way forward might be to borrow the Windows computer again, download the Xubuntu ISO, burn from Windows and install in your Linux system...
 
The easiest way forward might be to borrow the Windows computer again, download the Xubuntu ISO, burn from Windows and install in your Linux system...
Well that I didn't need it. The problem was in USB. I got DVD-RW today and installed Xubuntu without any problems. Seems like it is better to boot from CD or DVD than from USB - much less work, much less problems.
 

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