Gnucash versions 2.2.9 and 2.4.10 broken in Debian Squeeze

[Liz]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 09:01:59 -0500
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> > I downloaded from the Ubuntu site file
> > ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso and managed to write it to a USB
> > stick.  Then I changed the BIOS in my laptop, a Lenovo R61 which
> > allows booting from a USB stick disguised as either a HDD or a
> > CDROM, and which has Debian Squeeze installed.  The machine knew
> > that there was something on the USB/CDROM, but whatever it was it
> > cound not boot from it.  
> 
> You have to burn the ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso file to a CD-ROM.
> I don't think you cannot put it on a USB stick and boot it from
> there! (CD-ROM booting is *different* from USB stick booting.) I
> believe the ubuntu-12.10-alternitive-i386.iso file has the means of
> booting / installing from USB (or other ways, including PXE).

Another method is to use Unetbootin  http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
which will do all the necessary conversions.