Help - complete Linux newbie

anthony baldwin anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net
Thu Nov 29 04:39:52 UTC 2007


Hal Davis wrote:
> Read the PCMag article on Linux, and decided to download Ubuntu, because 
> they said it was good for newbies, and it came with a reliable partition 
> utility so I could make my laptop into a dual-boot device.
>
> Completed the 20-minute download, and I now have a 700 MB .iso file on 
> my Windows desktop. Trouble is, I try double-clicking on the file and 
> nothing happens. I get a message about an external file needing to be 
> opened, and I tell it, sure, whatever, and nothing happens.
>
> How do I make the magic happen?
>
> Hal Davis
>
>   
Read this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

/tony

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