[Leaplist] Problem with loading Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 .img on my USB flash Drive

[Stephen Cullum]

I down loaded the ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img and used dd to put 
it on a 2gb usb drive. I checked the md5sum against the image and the 
device and they didn't match. Did I have to unmount the device before I 
copied the image to the usb device to get a working flash stick with 
ubuntu on it? I am using Ubuntu which will auto mount plug in devices.

Tom Parker wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Ram K. Singh <rksingh54 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:rksingh54 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     ,
>
>     I was finally able to download Ubuntu Remix 9.04 and I am trying
>     to prepare a flash stick to load my Netbook with Remix. I am not
>     able to mount the image as the process asks me to. I am using
>     Ubuntu USB imagewriter-0.1.3.0. Process seems to be simple but it
>     never succeeds to write the image. My downloaded Ubuntu Remix is
>     Ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img.
>
>
> I've never used the Ubuntu USB imagewriter, but here's what I do....
>
> From a working system do this:
>
> sudo dd if=Ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img of=/dev/sdx bs=1M
>
> Make sure the USB is bigger than the image file and /dev/sdx must be 
> the name of your USB flash drive.  If you don't know what the device 
> name of the flash drive is, do this:
>
> sudo fdisk -l
>
> Look for the device that is the same size as the USB drive and make 
> sure you do not overwrite the wrong device!
>
> After you get it installed, I highly recommend checking out 
> http://array.org/ubuntu/.  They have some great custom kernels and 
> tweaks to improve performance and battery life.
>
> Tom Parker
>
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