Boot from CD

[Brandon Wayne Tomlinson]

fire up brasero, it should have an option for "make disk from image" or something. you should also be able to find it if you right click, and "open with" on the iso file itself.

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Brandon Tomlinson
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Texas State University, Department of Computer Science

On Mar 3, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Dan Healy <dfhealy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am starting from Ubuntu 12.04.  I went to Ubuntu.com and downloaded 12.04 and followed their instructions to burn the CD.  All of the messages talked about burning the CD.  I have in my Downloads folder the file ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso.  How do I get that to a CD that will boot?
> 
> Thanks, Dan H
> 
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Brandon Wayne Tomlinson <thebwt at gmail.com> wrote:
> It sounds like he dragged an iso file onto a cd. You need to use burning software to write the iso to the cd file system.
> 
> What OS are you starting from?
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> On Mar 2, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 03/02/2013 11:48 AM, Dan Healy wrote:
> >> How do I get my system to boot from an ISO drive on my CD?
> >
> > This question does not parse...  You are trying to boot from a CD or an iso file?  An iso file is only "bootable" in a virtual environment. (Xen, VMware, kvm, virtualbox)  What are you trying to do?
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