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Help installing ubuntu from flahsdrive

Hi can somebody help me. I've recently bought Aspire One150 it comes with linpus lite ,but i want to remove this and install ubuntu on this. I triedvarious ways from forums but couldn't succeed. Tried making my flash drive bootable using Unetbootin from linpus. when booting i changed to boot from flash drive, it gives me unetbootin window and show default ,when click nothing happens.
Tried syslinux from flash drive even that doesn't work
As some forums sat use apt-get command to mount usb etc., but this command i couldn't find anywhere on my linpus.
Can somebody give steps please.
I have downloaded ubuntu 9.0 ver
Thanks

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  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,845 Forumite
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    The apt-get command is used in other distributions to install software from remote repositories, not to mount devices - you use the "mount" command for that. However you usually shouldn't need to as most distros will auto-mount any USB device that they find.

    Incidentally, I believe that the equivalent of "apt-get install" under Linpus should be "yum install", as it's Fedora based.

    I've never used unetbootin, but apparently you need to have an ISO image of the distro that you are trying to install on the pendrive (or another drive on the netbook).

    Have you tried any of the online howtos, such as this one?:

    http://www.raiden.net/articles/installing_linux_with_unetbootin
  • jb5
    jb5 Posts: 90 Forumite
    If the file you downloaded in an .img file then img file to usb
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