[colug-432] Installing Ubuntu from USB Flash Drive

[Steve VanSlyck]

I'm not sure I understtand what you're telling me, but I think I need to rephrase:

My goal is to install ubuntu from a USB flash drive, not from a CD.
There are instructions on the Ubuntu site on how to do this. I followed them.
Attempting the install failed for alleged lack of a CD ROM driveR.
I don't know why I need a CD ROM driveR to install from a USB flash drivE.
I want to the USB flash drive to work, but don't know what is wrong or what to do to fix it, problem described at the forums the link to which I poste din the previous message.

> Is it acceptable to you to install from somebody else's external USB optical drive?
No - because that won't solve my problem or teach me how to troubleshoot and solve it myself.

----- Original Message -----
> http://www.colug.net/meetings.php says in part: 
> 
>    As always, feel free to bring with you any ailing or 
>    problematic systems for expert diagnosis (or destruction).
> 
> Use your time machine to bring your computer to the COLUG meeting, or wait for the next one. 
> 
> Is it acceptable to you to install from somebody else's external USB optical drive?