I am having trouble installing Lubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop with a scrubbed-clean HD and 2 GB of RAM. I downloaded the OS on a Windows 7 machine and transferred it to a 4 GB thumb drive and tried it on the laptop. It came up no bootable media. I then went back to the PC and unpacked the download on the thumb drive. Same answer. What do I do now? Please understand--I am not a techie! Also--there is no operating system on the Dell I. 6000 so I cannot instruct anything from it. I have found instructions for resetting the BIOS on this computer to be very confusing
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You have to install the download on your thumb drive; you can not just copy it to it. – Organic Marble Sep 22 '18 at 20:25
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How do I Install the down load on the thumb drive? – Marc Hurlbert Sep 22 '18 at 22:24
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There's a simple tool call Etcher which will make loading a .iso file onto the USB and have it boot into Lubuntu installer very easy.
You can find instructions on the site for using the tool, here's a briefer:
- Get the .iso file from Lubuntu
- Install Etcher here
- Plug USB in computer and open Etcher
- Select the .iso as the image to flash
- Press Flash
The flashing process takes a bit of time, though Lubuntu is a rather compact OS.
From what I've gathered, the Dell laptops allow you to boot to a USB drive by pressing F12 on boot.
Once booted, the installer should launch.
