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Got an old laptop from a friend but it had win10 on it which isn't really supported and was painfully slow

Downloaded and burnt an iso (with verify) of latest distro but laptop won't boot from it. It tries but console shows odd errors after we get the ubuntu loading screen

So I dug out an old distro (trusty tahir) and booted into that no problem at all and installed it. Sadly my old disc was 32 bit so tried to create a second boot disc this time from ubuntu

But same problem

Anyone come across this? Will find a USB stick and try burning and booting to that.

Leaving it on 32 bit old distro isn't really an option :-)

Rich

Richard Clements
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  • Please be specific with details; what is the latest distro" as you understand it? Ubuntu has many products, and many releases (some having different ISO install options, with many architecture choices) & your question is void of specifics. Please also note Ubuntu hasn't intended optical* media be used for installs since Ubuntu 22.04 LTS; ie. it should be avoided as it can take >60 minutes as the ISO is no longer written to ensure it's fast there (being optimized for flash media; esp. with media verification... did you wait long enough?). – guiverc Dec 23 '22 at 11:07
  • At the start of the boot attempt if i escape from the logo screen i see: "can't open /dev/sr0" repeated lots. So I'm guessing it's not detecting the hard drive? Fine with an older distro though? Any ideas appreciated. – Richard Clements Dec 23 '22 at 11:20
  • Thanks @guiverc. Didn't write down the distro just the one get ubuntu offered me. But will try burning to usb stick – Richard Clements Dec 23 '22 at 11:24
  • Of course file name tells me. Ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64 – Richard Clements Dec 23 '22 at 11:48
  • Also all the big red errors on the console log didn't give me warm fuzzies that it was working ok. But maybe it might have live booted after an hour? Who's got that kinda time? Old distro booted in a couple of minutes – Richard Clements Dec 23 '22 at 11:56
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the 2022-April release (first re-spin) so it's not the latest (22.10 or the 2022-October release is later of course), but key is it's an ISO that was intended for use only from flash media & not optical. Anything up to and included 20.04 (or the 2020-April) release was faster on optical so why not used the media it was designed to be used with? (ie. USB flash drive). The warnings may not be an issue; eg. if you're not resuming a hibernated system, an error that the hibernate file wasn't found is expected & good! ie. if you don't read what they are; why care? – guiverc Dec 23 '22 at 12:05
  • Does this answer your question? What is the proper way of creating installation media from Ubuntu iso? – karel Dec 30 '22 at 13:45

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