Bear with me

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:31:46PM -0600, Matt wrote:
> So, i guess that this is going to really be a challenge. 
> I got the image onto a CD using CDBurnerPro, finally. Thanks for the help.
> Now when I boot the with the CD It looks like something called Caldera is running, then i get a prompt that looks something like this
> [DR-DOS] a:/
> So, I type DIR and the and run the only .exe in the DIR WWBNU which takes me to some german language program that I think has to do with partitioning, but I haven't been to germany for over 20 years now.
> I figured from the HOW-TO on Ubuntu that an install program would load, am I mistaken? Or do I have the wrong file?
> Thanks a ton from your local newbie,
> Matt

That definitely sounds like the wrong file.  The file should be 
warty-release-install-i386.iso (or substitute amd64|powerpc for i386).  

When it boots, it will lead you through the installation process (and
there won't be any .exe programs).