<p dir="ltr">Good evening Alan,</p>
<p dir="ltr">To load your iso onto a thumb dive using windows I would recommend software from here: <a href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/">http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/</a>. You should be able to overwrite existing linux installations on said partition once you create a proper thumb drive to boot from. Hope this helps.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thank you,<br>
Michael</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 6, 2013 7:40 PM, "Alan Bloom" <<a href="mailto:n1al@sonic.net">n1al@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I used to have Ubuntu Linux dual-booted with Windows XP Pro but some time ago, after one of the automatic Ubuntu updates, the network card stopped working. (It still worked fine under Windoze.) I spent many hours trying solutions I found on the Internet but was never able to solve the problem. I think it was version 11.something.<br>
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So now I am trying a clean install using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I already have two partitions set up on the hard disc and I want to install Linux on the second partition. I tried using the installer program from the Ubuntu web site, but that insists on placing it in the same partition as Windows (as a Windows directory).<br>
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If you just do the normal download from the Ubuntu web site, what you get is a .iso file. I tried putting that on a thumb drive and booting from that (the computer is set up to boot from USB). When I do that I get a "boot:" prompt, but when I hit the ENTER key, I get an error message, "Could not find kernel image: linux". I tried extracting the .iso file to the same thumb drive but it wouldn't boot from that either.<br>
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I also tried to store the .iso file to a CD-ROM but it is 4 or 5 Mbytes too large to fit on a CD.<br>
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I would be happy just to purchase the 12.04LTS CD from Ubuntu if I could be sure it would work.<br>
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Again, what I am trying to accomplish is to install Ubuntu into an already-existing partition on the hard disc.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Alan<br>
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