USB memory stick for Ubuntu install

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 22:21:49 -0700, Bob wrote:
>I assembled this computer about 10 years ago.  It has been running
>24/7 for that long as a print and file server, also running boinc
>doing compute tasks for seti, milkyway at home, and COVID19 research.  I
>am not surprised it is having a problem,  I am trying to get this
>computer working for a few months while I build another one.

Hi,

if I should ever finish my documentation (actually a 4k stop motion
Playmobil movie ... I already try to migrate from mechanical shutter
curtains to electronic curtain shutter, whenever possible, to
protect my DSLR cam, unfortunately quite late) everybody has got the
chance to see the truth about aliens and the Corona virus, at least
from the point of view of Playmobile beings. The documentation starts
in the real human world, with a drawing of the street and house where
I'm living, but than continues on a table in my flat and a green screen
in the background. IOW my documentation suffers a little bit from
alternative facts. However, unlike the SETI project, I already was in
contact with aliens :p.

If your machine has got several RAM bars, find the borked bar and
remove it. Before trying to do this, ensure to run memtest from a the
memtest live media. In the past I had false positives, when booting into
an installed memtest, while using the memtest live media, all RAM was
ok. Note, memtest is tricky, whatever memtest you use. It's a useful
tool, but not perfect. It could show false positives as well as missing
real issues, in the real human world, not just the Playmobil realm.

Regards,
Ralf