Booting Linux

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 19 August 2007, Michael & Ulli Hanley wrote:
> I just downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 desktop-i386iso onto my laptop hard disk.
> I confirmed the integrity of the file with WinMD5Sum.
> I burned to a CD using HP Solution center to get to the Windows burn
> wizard. I tried opening the file on my hard disk, but message said Windows
> cannot open
> I then put the CD into an older computer and tried booting it there.
> Even though the setup was modified to put the Cd drive ahead of the hard
> disk and the computer turned off and on, the computer persisted in
> booting up Windows instead.
> I could find nothing in the Ubuntu documentation about booting up.
> What am I missing?

I suspect you burned it as an ordinary file...   you need to burn it as an 
iso-image file which will put boot stuff in the right places.