Help Please

[elmo]

Clayton wrote:
>> I have downloaded Ubuntu 4 times and burned it to CD but it will not load.
>> The ISO Ubuntu file seems OK.
>>
>> I have a blank formatted HDD and put the Ubuntu CD into the CD drive, set
>> the Bios to boot from CD, but it does not load.
>>
>> What could the problem be?
>>     
>
> Are you burning the ISO as data to the CD (when you open a file
> manager and look at what is on the CD after you burn it, do you see
> the ISO file, or a bunch of other files and directories)?
>
> The ISO is an image.  Think of it as something like a zip file.  A zip
> file can contain lots of other files all packaged together into one
> file.  You must unzip it to get at the stuff inside.  Well the ISO
> works in a similar way... it is a single file and inside it is all the
> files all bundled together.  To make it "readable" and "bootable" you
> need to use your CD burning software to burn the ISO to CD, not to
> burn data to disk.
>
> Here is an example with images using Nero:
> http://wizardskeep.org/mainhall/tutor/neroiso.html
> Depending on what software you are using, the menu selections could be
> slightly different.. hopefully this gives you an idea what needs to be
> done.
>
> C.
>
>   
The ISO file that you download is not the file that you install....don't 
make a CD directly from the ISO download.  You must first convert the 
ISO download to a IMAGE CD.   For this. you must use a burner program 
that converts the ISO download to create the IMAGE CD. If you still have 
Windows, you very likely have a CD burner, such as Nero, that will do this.

elmo