Hello Scott,

If I understand correctly, it sounds like you have mounted your flash drive
on your Windows OS and are trying to install from there. While I think this
should still work, I usually change the boot priority to the flash drive to
do installations. Here are the steps I follow.

Power down your PC
Insert your flash drive with your bootable Linux image
Power on your PC
When your BIOS loading screen displays (this will usually display the name
of your hardware's manufacturer) press the F2 key (sometimes DEL, but you
should see a message at the bottom of the screen saying which one is
required)
You should now be in your BIOS menu
Use the arrow keys to select your boot priority and make sure your flash
drive has the first priority
Press escape, save the changes and reboot
You should now see the Ubuntu logo and a menu to install the new OS

Some helpful links:
Creating a bootable Ubuntu USB
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
How to enter the BIOS menu
http://notebooks.com/2011/05/05/how-to-load-bios-and-change-boot-configuration/

Now if you change the boot priority in your BIOS and you get a black screen
with a message saying something like "boot loader not found" or "kernel
panic," then the problem is probably with your Ubuntu image (while
uncommon, image downloads can become corrupted). I would try to download a
new bootable image (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop) and reload it
onto your flash drive with the instructions linked above.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Sam


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Scott Davis <easthousing@gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried to create a bootable ubuntu flash drive and the flash drive icon
> is now the ubuntu icon. when i click on it i see three ubuntu icons two of
> which give error meessages when clicked on. the third gives a window with
> something about demo and installation but does not install. what am i
> missing? i have tried unetbootin to no avail.
>
> also, i fell for the ad about windows xp drivers and now have that "
> conduit.com" on my pc
>
> help!
>
> Scott Davis
> easthousing@gmail.com
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