And this worked like a charm.  Thank you! 

Thanks that's probably true, but this isn't meant for me, it's for computer-iliterate friends to have a more secure environment to bitcoin from.   The premise being most people use Windows, and who knows what malware they may have on their system.

I'd just like to get a USB with a clean linux OS and a working electrum in their hands.

I've tried all the (old) instructions on how to install Electrum from a live Ubuntu USB, but nothing is working for me.   I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

The software center install doesn't work..but that's fine, the version there is pretty old. 

But the instructions from the electrum website are also not working for me.    Even after working around all the various error messages, and installying python3 etc... .still no dice.

Is there a tried and tested way of getting electrum to install on a live Ubuntu CD?  I'm hoping to install it, unplug ethernet cable, run it, and write down the 13 keywords and receive address, then send coins to the (cold) wallet, and one day make it "hot" by re-building from my 13 keywords.   Reasonable?

Can anyone tell me: if I take enter my 12 electrum keywords to obtain my wallet on my new computer, will this be the old wallet with the BTG still attached? i.e. can I claim my BTG from a wallet I restored today using the 12 keywords?  Or does it require the old, original wallet? 

i.e. When you enter you 12 keywords to rebuild a wallet in electrum, are the BTG from October 24th snap shot accessible from the restored wallet??

Considering the process is complete, I think you're the one complicating things.
1. The private key from blockchain.info was compressed, not uncompressed, I had to uncompress it myself.
2.  No I couldn't.  (Tried that days ago, and it didn't work).

What worked for you, won't work for everyone.   

Oops..I used electron cash to sweep the uncompressed blockchain.info private key.  And I used https://www.bitaddress.org/ to uncompress that key.  Hope this helps.

Same if such a thing were possible.  I had 100 shares directly with friedcat. 

You're welcome, and I know what you mean since I spent like 6 hours figuring that out.   Maybe it'll help someone else reading this too.  Tips are quite welcome btw: 1SD2BGmaob83dvmy42pKKw4W81ttfhKqQ   (btc) 

Here's one tool: https://www.bitaddress.org/    under "wallet details"...

Thanks I've solved my problem since.   For anyone curious, what ended up working was sweeping the private key from blockchain.info, but I had to first uncompress it, copy/pasting the key didn't work.   

Thanks, I tried restoring with the 12 keywords first, no dice..0 bcc balance. I also tried sweeping the private key, didn't work.. then I finally found my answer after some google searching, blockchain.info gives you a compressed private key, had to uncompress it first, then entered that key into electron cash and my bcc was there.  Took a while to figure this out.

Electron cash is for BCC, so I am seeing 0 BCC balance as I said.

Yes as I said I moved the bitcoin from the blockchain wallet, to another place.  Took the 12 keywords down, enter them into electron cash, but there is 0 BCC balance.

I was trying to access my BCC balance from my now empty of BTC Blockchain wallet using the 12 recovery words from blockchain.info when creating an electron cash wallet.  I hope that makes sense.

What would I change the network settings to?

I just moved all my btc from my  blockchain.info wallet from 2013 elsewhere, but when I enter the 12 recovery words from blockchain.info into electron cash, as I did successfully with my electrum wallet before, it shows a blanance of 0 bcc.  What am I doing wrong?

I just tried to recover my BCC from my blockchain.info wallet the same way I did with my electrum wallet but something seems to have gone wrong...   I first transferred the balance as that worked with electrum as per their instructions, then I entered the 12 word recovery phrase, selected BIP 39, but 0 balance...   

Did I mess up by moving the bitcoin first?  With the electrum wallet, the transfer didn't affect the BCC since it was post-fork.. 

Can I still recover my wallet somehow?

Nice strawman.  "Jew hater"  where do you get this b.s.

lol @ ifamericansknew.org being a propaganda site.   The authors of the articles aren't anonymous trolls and the content is well researched and corroborated, as opposed to the anonymous propaganda from palestinefacts that was linked.

Yeah 68 years isn't long, especially considering the entire Israeli claim on the land goes back 2,000 years.  LOL  @ the backwards history lesson on WWII.  Hitler was actually in favour of establishing Israel, why not, the whole idea of a "Jewish Race" that the zionists and nazis have in common is completely racist and basically the same thing. 

A few of you are intelligent enough to follow up on some of this and see where you are wrong.  Others, might be ideologically, perhaps religiously driven, and you are about as lost as the people you are arguing with.  (Not me, I'm out)

 Website Review - http://www.palestinefacts.org/ - Propaganda Alert
http://www.palestinefacts.org/

The website displayed above is a farce. It's a thinly disguised attempt to colour the Arab-Israeli conflict in the blue colours of Zionism and making it appear like this is the truth, at least from a Palestinian standpoint. The target audience for this website is people who are not very knowledgeable about the conflict and who don't know who to ask for information. However, even with zero facts, you will quickly discover the bias, as I will demonstrate below:

1-It's Anonymous

No one seems to want to claim responsibility for this website, as this paragraph quoted from the FAQ section demonstrates:

    "There is no one individual editor. The site has been prepared by a team of writers and editors who are knowledgable of the history, politics, economics and military situation in the Middle East, based on information compiled from the best available sources. They have developed Palestine Facts to provide much-needed factual information to everyone who may be interested in the current situation in Israel, how it evolved to today's status, and what might be reasonable policies for the future."



I wonder how many of those "team of writers" are Zionist? or Arab?
Would you trust the opinion of someone without a name?

2- The nomenclature used is exclusively zionist:

For example, the Occupied West Bank is called Judea and Samaria which is a biblical name fanatic Zionists like to call Arab land that they believe belongs to them. No one (even the UN) uses such names except Israel. This is the same area where some Israeli soldiers refuse to serve on ethical grounds. The UN has issued numerous resolutions deeming Israeli settlements in that area illegal, and yet Israel continues to build on land that is not theirs.

3- Biased Maps:

    "Invalid Palestinian Arab Maps.Anti-Israel forces have made an industry out of producing invalid maps that either deny the existence of Israel altogether or distort the history and modern situation."



Basically according to this "unbiased" website, any map that is pro-Palestinian is automatically anti-Israeli. What biased logic. The aim of this website is to delete Palestine from the world vocabulary. Interestingly, they do not mention anything about the Israeli Apartheid Wall which was unilaterally drawn by the Israelis and which clearly illegally annexes Arab land that does not belong to Israel.

Even Wikipedia acknowledges that: "Parts of the barrier are built on land seized from Palestinians", although their maps show a clear bias against the Palestinians by naming Arab land with Jewish names. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier

Unbiased websites such as this: http://www.stopthewall.org/maps/150.shtml show the land grab graphically on accurate maps.

4- Biased Sources:

Any academic knows that the quality of your thesis is underpinned by the quality of your sources. This website uses exclusively Israeli sources to describe their supposed Palestinian viewpoint. It's like asking the KKK to abolish slavery. Their map references include:

    The Department for Jewish Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency for Israel
    State of Israel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Maps of Israeli Interests in Judea and Samaria, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
    etc..



5- Denial of any Palestinian history or rights:

The site blatantly tries to argue everything for Israel's benifit, it even claims that the Occupied Territories are not such but they are "occupied territories" very much in the same way that Arabs try to deny Israel's existence by calling it "Israel".

There is a section called Arabian Fables that is as logical as a drunken alcoholic abusive rapist. For example:

    "The "Palestinians". That is the fundamental myth.



Again, the use of the quotations to indicate that the Palestinians don't exist. Weird, because the word Palestine has been there since even before the Arabs came to Palestine, and is a Greek name in fact, more than 2000 years old. Another gaping hole in their logic especially since their website's name is Palestine Facts!

What about this:

    "Josef Goebbels, the infamous propaganda minister of the Nazis, had it right. Just tell people big lies often enough and they will believe them."



Let's get it clear. This is a website full of anti-Palestinian propaganda. What is very ironic is that they use Nazi propaganda to claim that their propaganda is correct. Well two wrongs never made a right.

Let's never forget that it's Nazi Germany that killed the Jews and not Arab Palestinians. The holocaust is not an Arab problem but the Arabs have had to pay for it. Wouldn't it be fairer if we founded Israel inside Germany?

Most peoples beliefs are conditioned by Hollywood to one degree or another.  Not sure who runs this site that you linked to but at first glance it's not very informative.  You would learn a lot more reading these few pages I think:

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html

"As I've mentioned many times before, the Arab-Israeli is complicated and with a long history."

No, the Arab-Israeli [conflict] is only 68 years long, mentioning it many times won't make it true.

You don't know what you are talking about, and yes, it's from watching too much t.v. etc.

You guys should research and post the actual number of civilians killed "on both sides" - which side is really targeting civilians and which side is attacking mostly soldiers - the stats are there for all to see.  Also what a "hamas rocket" is vs the enormous missiles Israel fires...really look into just these two matters - because it would inform your comments a great deal.

Currently, you are victim to various false facts installed in you by a pro-Israel news media / entertainment industry.  So much so, that your blaming the victim seems fair to you.   If you applied the same rule if you happened upon a rape, you would be making excuses for the rapist while saying "then she shouldn't be kicking and scratching like that, it's a complicated two-sided situation, yada yada yada".  lol