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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The minimal CD can be useful -- IIRC, it requires the command-line to install, though, since it saves space by not including a desktop or GUI.
But if you avoid UNetbootin and simply write the Xubuntu ISO download directly to the flashdrive, it should work fine.
UNetbootin is known to cause weird problems.
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Thanks eschwartz. Okay, so I'm downloading a xubuntu iso file now. Then by "write" I just copy and paste it onto a usb flash drive?
I thought I had to use Unetbootin or some Universal Installer-type thing to break the file down so it was bootable.
Okay, I think maybe I figured it out. Maybe. I downloaded the Xubuntu file. Then I extracted it. Then I 'selected all' and copied it and pasted it to the flash drive. HOWEVER now at the very f#%&*!@$ end of it I got this (the 032 scsreenshot).
I googled around and it says FAT32 (which is what the flash drive is formatted as {and what everybody says it should be formatted as}) doesn't work with symbolic links, which were obviously in the Xubuntu iso. (And btw when I extracted the file all the individual folders and files had padlocks on them. I checked that out and it said it was to prevent other users. So I ignored it.) I also read that NTFS doesn't work with symbolic links.
And I don't even know if I'm doing the right thing to begin with. LOL
So anyway I said 'Yes to all' and it finished. And now there are only padlocks on two files. (see 033 screenshot)
I'm going to leave it as it is until I hear from you as it took a while to get it there. Thanks.