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Can use a hand (Not a Gzip file)

Katchra

Wed May 28, 2014 5:37:40 pm

Greeting Zorin Community,

As you can see i'm new to Linux. Decided to choose Zorin as my main OS on laptop, but sadly running into problems. So here it goes firstly downloaded Zorin 8.1 x32, then burned it to a usb using latest universal-usb-installer. secondly enabled Intel VT from bios. Later on Zorin boot selection menu comes up, when i boot as live system this is where i run into the wall "Not a Gzip file -system halted". Tried searching for different solutions on google and on the forums but nothing was available. If simalar topic was created guess havn't looked around the corners :roll: , sorry to repost and direct me to it. Much appreciate the help, was cracking after 9 hours trying to find a solution. :D

Laptop Specs-

HP DV5000
Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
1GB ram

Katchra

Wed May 28, 2014 5:46:19 pm

Forgot to add tried Zorin Lite and running the same problem.

Katchra

Wed May 28, 2014 7:30:50 pm

Update - Runned MD5 checksum and it matched.

Swarfendor437

Wed May 28, 2014 11:04:46 pm

Hi, does universal-usb-installer compress .iso images? It could be a problem with that - also what size of USB stick are you using? 4 Gb or 8 Gb etc?

Katchra

Thu May 29, 2014 6:51:15 am

Used unet as a replacement for burning the ISO but same problem, using an 8gb key

Wolfman

Thu May 29, 2014 6:58:32 am

Hi,

I suggest you download a new version of Zorin using Firefox only and take a look at the guides below please:

http://zorin-os.com/free8.html

Did you fully format the USB stick to FAT32?:

http://www.zoringroup.com/forum/viewtop ... f=5&t=4771

For Unetbootin:

http://www.zoringroup.com/forum/viewtop ... 209#p34209