Help - complete Linux newbie

[niel]

On Thursday 29 November 2007 05.39.52 anthony baldwin wrote:
> 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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See also www.minihowto.org  :-)