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Quoting Alan.Carville at Newmont.com:

UNBUNTU is not live CD: it is first installation CD in fact. Try Knoppix
(http://www.knoppix.org/) or Morphix (http://www.morphix.org/) if you are
looking for live Debian style Linux.

Gediminas Bukauskas
>
> TOTALLY new to all this. Ive been "lost in the forests of Windows" (
> more like Blair Witch really ).
>
> Anyway Iv'e been given a copy of UBUNTU, (for x86)and tried to load the
> "live" disc to "have a look" ( I can't install (yet) as I'm paying off
> my notebook)and it will not boot.
>
> It comes up with some suggestions on what to type to get it to boot; I
> tried this but still nothing.
>
> I did have a copy of Linux's Mandrake 7 a while back and totally enjoyed
> it (but it had a few problems and thus I don't use it now).
>
> Could anyone help with this?
>
>
> Regards
> Big Al
>
>
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