On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:27:10 +0100 [email protected] wrote: > On 2016-03-22 23:13, Peter Flynn wrote: > [...] > > I have three old Dell D610 laptops running 14.10 which we lend to > > interns. They're sacrificial, so I'll see what I can do. > > That didn't work, and I don't know why. > > I burned the xenial iso to a new usb stick but all the laptops failed > to boot from it, saying "Boot error". I tried with both unetbootin > and usb-creator-gtk, no difference. > > This doesn't happen with the ISOs for 13.*, 14.*, or 15.* -- that's > what I have used on these machines to date (they're all running 15.10 > ATM).
Try just writing it with dd, that's what I've always used without problems. 'sudo dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/whatever bs=4M' Just make sure you get the device node right, so you don't overwrite the wrong device. You can see which one to use with lsblk. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive." -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
