booting

[Eberhard Roloff]

Hi Todd,

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 19:50:50 +1000
"todd" <toddrenouf at dodo.com.au> wrote:

> i have made several copies of the ubuntu linux disc and copied
> as image with the result of all the files showing but the disc
> will not boot from my cd rom - i have no problem with booting
> windows discs - is there any way of installing ubuntu linux
> apart from booting from the cd - please help - todd   

sure, you may install ubuntu via the network, provided your
network card and bios are able to boot from the network. However
if you do not have the appropriate infrastructure available, I
would advise not to do this.

Honestly your problem looks kind of strange to me.
-Are you sure that on the ubuntu cds, there is NOT a single file
called "something.iso", but the "real files"?
-did you burn the cdrom and declare it to be bootable? I
remember that some win cdburners having such "crazy features"
in regard to burning isos.
-if windows discs do boot, do you mean they exactly boot from the
bios into ex. XP installmode or are you rather referring to
cdroms autostarting when you are on your windows desktop?
-what happens when you explicitly set your boot device to be
CD/DVD in your Bios settings and then boot? 

I assume that your computer is not so old that it won't boot
from selfburned cdroms or cdrws? ;-)
The last time I encountered such an issue I played with a compaq
Pentium I notebook ;-))

regards
Eberhard