I managed to get ubuntu 10.04 back on my computer. The aid was to create the usb boot stick from a ubuntu 10.04 computer instead of my companion ubuntu 10.10 computer.
"It is not possible to create Ubuntu 10.04 USB disks from the Startup Disk Creator in Ubuntu 10.10 due to a backwards incompatibility in the syslinux program."
I managed to get ubuntu 10.04 back on my computer. The aid was to create the usb boot stick from a ubuntu 10.04 computer instead of my companion ubuntu 10.10 computer.
Quote from: /wiki.ubuntu. com/MaverickMee rkat/ReleaseNot es#Common% 20Desktop% 20Applications
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"It is not possible to create Ubuntu 10.04 USB disks from the Startup Disk Creator in Ubuntu 10.10 due to a backwards incompatibility in the syslinux program."