7.10 No Brown Desktop

[Jeffrey Tooker]

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Carl
Friis-Hansen
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:20 AM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: 7.10 No Brown Desktop

Hi Jeffrey,
I have a feeling that you got confused due to the Ubuntu 7.10 CD.
Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
> I have since downloaded and burned to disk 7.10.

This might be the where your problem resides. When you download 7.10, 
then you actually download an ISO image. With this file you can burn a 
CD, but not by simply putting the iso file on the CD. I understand that 
you are currently using MS-Windows. You must use the CD burning program 
in MS-Windows to handle the iso image. Totally depending of your setup, 
it is likely that you can just double click on the ISO file in order to 
start the burning the ISO image.
When you succeed, leave the disk in the CD-ROM drive you machine 
normally boots on first (check the BIOS settings if in doubt) and reboot 
your computer.
When it boots on your new CD, it will come up with a simple menu with 
options to test/install Ubuntu or for example to test the integrity of 
your CD. Please do the latter first of all to make sure that data and 
drive is okay.
Hope this will get you going

--
Carl Friis-Hansen>>>


Carl:

I have tried starting Windows with the disk installed.  It does not work.  I
believe part of the problem is that the computer is actually starting in
Ubuntu and presenting a desired boot list.  If the time allowed for choice
runs out before a decision is made it starts Ubuntu. After thinking about it
I believe if I could un install Ubuntu from the seperate drive that it is on
that the burned disk installation would work.

Jeffrey Tooker 
Paynes Creek Ca.