Help Please

[Wulfy]

Email Message wrote:
> 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.

Did you create a data CD  (with the ISO file visible when you mount it) 
instead of burning the ISO (which is a disk image)?  When I first 
started, that was my big mistake.  I am assuming here that you burned 
the CD under Windows using something like Nero.

The other option is that you need to enable the CD as a boot device in 
your BIOS and put it first in the queue.

HTH

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