Lubuntu or Kubuntu?

[claydoh]

I can't reproduce this here. Using both dd on the command line or Balena Etcher to create a USB installer, using an iso freshly downloaded

The only thing that might cause this I can think of would be a temporary mixup on Ubuntu's file server pointing to the wrong file. But if you did accidentally get a Lubuntu iso, you would not see traces of 'kubuntu' when booting it.

Have you by chance ever used this USB for Lubuntu in the past?

I'd suggest re-downloading and re-verifying the iso, and wiping the USB, or using a different one. Try a different software tool to create it, such as Etcher or Ventoy
You should be able to poke around the files on the stick and look at things such as file manifests and grub configs to verify it mentions Kubuntu

[MarkS]

That is wrong on more than one level for sure.

Lubuntu actually uses a different installer from Kubuntu/Ubuntu now (Calamares vs Ubiquity), and in both cases they would show 22.04, definitely not the old non-LTS version 17.10 from 5 years ago.
The actual OS images found on the ISOs for each are completely different, Kubuntu's is a Plasma base image and Lubuntu's would be an LXQt based one. This isn't something that would be shared, since the OS image itself is written to the disk
I think something is buggered with your USB , or the specific software used to create it.

I assume you downloaded the Kubuntu iso from here: https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/, and the file name is specifically kubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso ?

Yes, that is the file I downloaded and created a startup USB stick with. Grub selection is labeled Lubuntu 17.10 and when the USB starts up, there is an icon to "Install Lubuntu 17.10 but a folder for Kubuntu 22.04.01 with all the Kubuntu files. Tried this a couple time burning the startup USB, same result. Same thing happened when I use a DVD to install.

[claydoh]

Grub it shows Lubuntu 17.10

That is wrong on more than one level for sure.

Lubuntu actually uses a different installer from Kubuntu/Ubuntu now (Calamares vs Ubiquity), and in both cases they would show 22.04, definitely not the old non-LTS version 17.10 from 5 years ago.
The actual OS images found on the ISOs for each are completely different, Kubuntu's is a Plasma base image and Lubuntu's would be an LXQt based one. This isn't something that would be shared, since the OS image itself is written to the disk
I think something is buggered with your USB , or the specific software used to create it.

I assume you downloaded the Kubuntu iso from here: https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/, and the file name is specifically kubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso ?

[MarkS]

I have downloaded Kubuntu 22.04.01 and installed to USB stick. In Grub it shows Lubuntu 17.10 to select not Kubuntu. This seems odd. There is an install icon that shows "Install Lubuntu 17.10" but Kubuntu folder is on the desktop. I figured maybe developers are just using Lubuntu to install Kubuntu so I try and install but keeps telling me dev sda and sdb are mounted and freezes. Anyone know what's happening? Yes I did use shaa256 to checksum.