Help Please

[oclad wesley]

1. Did you "Write" rather than  "Burn"  Ubuntu Iso?

2. Try starting with a hard drive on which all partitions have deleted and
nothing formatted.

3. Good Luck..

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Email Message <sh_offshore at hotmail.com>
wrote:

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> From: sh_offshore at hotmail.com
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Help Please
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:13:26 +0000
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> 1]        I desperately want to get away from Microsoft but cannot make
> head nor tail of Ubuntu.
>
> 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?
>
> I have been to the page that offers to check the integrity of the ISO file
> but it is so technical with command strings etc which is meaningless to me
> and describing numbers of different options.
>
> In any case I doubt of the file is corrupted I have downloaded it numbers
> of time with always the same result.
>
> 2]   Why, when I wanted to send this message from the Ubuntu site it come
> up with a message saying the it will only be sent when I Send/Receive
> messages (from windows explorer?) . I do not use Explorer only Firefox.
>
> I have had to copy and paste this from Explorer to my hotmail mail site.
>
> Many thanks for any help you can give and best wishes from Stan
>
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