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

[Tom Parker]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Stephen Cullum <scullum at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>

The md5sum won't match with the device.   That's because the device is
bigger than the actual image.  If they were the exact same size it would
match.

Make sure the md5sum on the image matches and you'll be fine.  And, yes,
make sure you unmount the USB device before you use the dd command.

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