Having read through 20 odd pages of posts i'm totally bemused now !
Loaded todays version and all ok as per previous.
Tried to load the picons file which I can't seem to transfer to the USB as it keeps failing ?
Did the swap bit and that came up active so assumed USB was fine ?
Went to Software updates (88 available) and pressed update but a warning comes up that the Image is out of date and may cause a problem ?
Went to flash image online and error comes up not enough free space on /hdd (8gb usbflash) I need 300 mb ?
Do I need a different/later image (never loaded any, just your software)
If I go to Hardisk initialisation it fails with the message "error:unmount:can't forcibly unmounts/media/sda1:device or resource busy ?
Any ideas please.