|VERIFIED| Download Rufus On Ubuntu
Azarias Alvarez
I found a suggestion to use instead of rufus. This worked for me so the issue isnt the USB stick, ISO or OS. Either it's a bug with rufus or my config was wrong (which shouldnt be the case since i followed the guide).
How did you download the ISO, direct or as a torrent? Have you checked the properties of the file, is it the gigabytes the download page says it should be (2.4 gb)? Have you checked the MD5 hash? GtkHash works good for that. Have you tried something other than Rufus, like Etcher on Linux or LILI (LinuxLive USB Creator) on Windows? The Firefox Icon is a clue, I don't think Rufus or the others will find it if it is not an ISO. It should look like this "ubuntu-mate-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso"
Thanks a lot for the reply.
I downloaded from ubuntu site - Downloads. I guess that qualifies as direct, since there was no mention of torrent there.
I already deleted it, so I don't remember if it had "-mate" after ubuntu. But the rest was what you wrote. Wouldn't the .iso make it an ISO file?!
I have tried only Rufus. Never heard of the others.
I uninstalled Firefox with the goal that its image doesn't attach to the download anymore.
Then I downloaded Ubuntu 20.04 four times!
Twice from the main Ubuntu site, and twice from ubuntu/mate.
Each time the downloaded file had no image.
Each time Rufus couldn't find it!
Each time, after the Rufus failure, I went directly to the Downloads and tried to open it - because there was no Run prompt.
It was impossible to open it because all options were spurious: programs and applications that were not designed for this - my Brave browser, VLC (video player), and stuff like those.
Couldn't find Rufus anywhere in the list, and tried to copy the downloaded file. When went into the Rufus to paste it there, no Paste was available. Just names of codes and programs that I am not familiar with that and were not mentioned anywhere in the ubuntu tutorials.
My laptop has Windows 10.
Does anyone, anywhere know of problems with downloading while having Windows lately, let's say the last 6 months?
(1) I don't put it past Microsoft to make it impossible going to open code sources, because - for all those who follow the big games of the Reset - it is known that the AI Singularity is a primary goal.
Related to this, I had another remark to make a while back:
(2) There will come the day when the internet will not be accessible to those not toeing the line - whichever that line will be.
Then, Linux and all related products will be of no avail, short of creating a new internet.
Thank you so much for your feedback! I do have start up disk on my ubuntu but I am unable to make it work. I will try to download UNetbootin.
If I knew how to take a screenshot of the start up disk - that would probably help you help me.
indeed the ISO was written using rufus, previously I had a similar problem when installing ubuntu but with a different error code (452 out of range pointers: 0x79fff010) but I managed to solve it with the rufus-4.0p version. I will try to use another app to create the iso image on the flash drive.