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Greetings. I recently purchased the Linux Pro Magazine edition for January 2015 sold in Montreal, QC, containing a double-sided DVD with Ubuntu 14.10 and Lubuntu 14.10.
Although I have been able to install and use Ubuntu 14.04 successfully on both my laptops by downloading the image from ubuntu.com (I even tried Mint 17 on one of them, but did not like the interface, so switched back to Ubuntu), I am light years away from being a Linux pro. Nevertheless, I purchased the magazine because of the included disk.
I have tried to install the Lubuntu distro on my Toshiba Satellite C50D-A several – I mean like 5 or 6 – times by doing these two things:
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