9.10 install problem please help guys

hi guys i have 9.04 on net book have for a wile now want to install 9.10 so i made the usb stick and every time i get gave up waiting for root device

my main pc is running xp and its the same pendrive i always use

i download the image from ubuntu and use unetbooting as always

please help its doing my head in now

exact error is

ALERT! does not exist. dropping to shell!

 

OK - so why not use the update manager to go to 9.10.

Then download an image of the NBR disk and use the USB Creator app to write to the USB stick? I did this and then did a clean install on to my AAO.

Very impressed so far!

 

thats a idea lol i will try it now whats the command again to update via os i cant remember the apt-get command

 

TBH I did it via the update manager in 9.04. I didn't need to go anywhere near the command line.

From another forum:
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list: s/jaunty/karmic/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
reboot
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

It took about 50 minutes to download the packages and then about 6 hours to do the upgrade.

Installing the clean 9.10 took about an hour this morning - including reformatting the SSD. My machine is far far more responsive with a clean install than with an upgrade....

Your mileage may vary!

 

don't worry i got it it working via pendrive i formatted the pen drive via disk management instead to fat not fat 32 and bang it worked strait away

now to figure out why leeenux wont install on this asus 701 2g surf lol