Help Please

[elmo]

elmo wrote:
> Clayton wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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.
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> elmo
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I should mention that UBUNTU has CD burners but you need to have a 
working UBUNTU to use them.  But which comes first, the chicken or the egg?