[conspire] (forw) Re: Help installing ubuntu? Creating a bootable USB drive

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Gray (michaelcgray at gmail.com):

> Hi. Thank you for the invite. I think I solved my present problem, or am on
> the way to the solution. The problem was not with the installation per se,
> but with downloading the software to create a bootable USB stick.

Thanks, I've learned something:  A bad ISO file download produces
symptoms similar to that of a permissions problem.  But this also
highlights my point that it's never a bad idea, immediately after
downloads of such disk-image files, to verify their integrity against
published md5, sha1, sha256 (etc.) checksums, before attempting to write
them to bootable media.


> Christian was right, defining the problem helped me see the solution.

Always a worthwhile point!

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