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[Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Walter,

On 3 February 2015 at 18:19, Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Time to get testing LTS. Due in two days!!!
>
OK. I have installed 14.04.2 LTS. Here are my notes, hope you find them
useful:-

Trusty Tahr lubuntu alternate 14.04.2 files

SUMMARY
=======
Creating an install USB flash drive using UNetBootIn 603-1 is broken.
The rest of this message details how to overcome this.

After installing lubuntu, tried a few apps. Firefox has 1 problem - when
you are browsing the net, URLs in the address bar are solid black and grey
rectangles. I think that I've come across that problem before.

Tried a couple of other apps (file manager, paint) and they seemed OK

Ran Software Updater and there were no updates to be applied.

DETAIL
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Put onto ORANGE USB memory stick.

Downloaded Wednesday 4th February 2015.

Computer used for testing "detroit".
Dell Optiplex GX50, 1.9GHz Celeron, 512MiB RAM, CD-ROM, USB

Folder moved into ~/isos/lubuntu alternate 14.04.2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ian ian 669M Feb  4 17:43 trusty-alternate-i386.iso
ian@newton:~/isos/lubuntu alternate 14.04.2$ md5sum
trusty-alternate-i386.iso
40eeb99404968113290f07bb66f9e531  trusty-alternate-i386.iso
ian@newton:~/isos/lubuntu alternate 14.04.2$


Failed to boot into installer, giving this as a repeating error message:-
"Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32"

START : Found some instructions via Google:-
copy the below files from /usr/lib/syslinux/bios/ to the root of USB drive
and then boot with the USB device.

1. libcom32.c32
2. menu.c32
3. libutil.c32

Update:

If the above files were not enough and if you are getting the below message
as Taipan in comments observed,

Failed to load COM32 file vesamenu.c32

I use Ubuntu & the version of UNetbootin supplied by its repositories is
version 603. When I use this I get the same problem as you.

By going to http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ you can download version 608
which is the latest version, having been released in August 2014.

END OF Instructions found via Google

The missing files were found at /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios
ian@newton:/usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios$ cp libcom32.c32
/media/ian/ORANGE/
ian@newton:/usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios$ cp menu.c32 /media/ian/ORANGE/
ian@newton:/usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios$ cp libutil.c32 /media/ian/ORANGE/
ian@newton:/usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios$ cp vesamenu.c32
/media/ian/ORANGE/

Booted from memory stick and I selected "install" from the UNetBootIn menu.

It asked me which groups of packages to install. Went for the lubuntu
packages.

Install succeeded.

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