Installing Ubuntu errors
Jose A Merced
fj60cruiser at charter.net
Mon Dec 27 00:31:54 UTC 2004
User error.... burned the image as a file, not as an "image". Now it solved.
But Ubuntu did not detect my Win XP installation, so I am booting from Ubuntu only. How can I repair this?
>
> From: Kent Frazier <kentfrazier at gmail.com>
> Date: 2004/12/26 Sun PM 06:21:28 EST
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu errors
>
> > After reading the "how to" install of Ubuntu, I went ahead and burned the
> > ISO for AMD64 systems into a CD. Made the CD bootable and started up the
> > computer with CD boot support (from the BIOS). This is what I got:
> >
> >
> >
> > Caldera Dr-Dos starts and then?
>
> DR-DOS? Unless the AMD64 version of the CD is far different than the
> i386, it should be booting into a live linux prompt, not DOS. This is
> just a hunch, but how did you burn the ISO? You say that you made it
> bootable, but the ISO should be bootable without any need to make it
> bootable in the program. Depending on your burning program, you
> should just have to select "Burn Image" or something of the sort. I
> may be way off base here, as I am unfamiliar with the specifics of
> your architecture, but I think you may have burned the disc
> incorrectly. Reply back with your CD-burning application, and I or
> another lost member will try to talk you through how to burn it
> correctly.
>
> Best of luck.
>
> Kent
>
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Jose Merced
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