Installing off downloaded CD

[Philippe Landau]

Lisa Z. wrote:
> I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu and then
> burnt a CD(as data) 
thanks to your precise email the problem is apparent:
the CD needs to be burned as iso image.
otherwise it only contains the closed .iso file.

> and put it into another computer -
> a thinkpad 600x - but it didn't recognize it. I tried
> hitting F12 and I changed it to boot from CD. Am I
> suppose to change it to something else to be
> recognized but maybe not booted -perhaps the bios-or
> am I supposed to have an additional floppy disk(bootable)?
the bios may need to be set to boot from CD, too.

> -Dada Mail
dada mail ? :-)

kind regards     philippe