Help Please

[Jerry S.]

If you are using Nero, select Recorder and Burn Image, then point it at
the ISO you downloaded.  After the burn is complete, look at the CD from
the machine running Nero and you should see ALL the files and
directories.  If you only see the ISO file, then you burned a Data CD of
that file is all.

jer

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:25 +0000, Email Message wrote:
> Hi Wulfman,
> 
> Thanks for your email and help. What I did was to download the ISO
> file and then burn it to a CD using Nero as you say burning a Data CD.
> But it just will not load.  I do not understand your suggestion re the
> file being an image. Could you explain step by step what I need to
> do.  
> 
> I have the Ubuntu ISO file which I need to transfer to a bootable CD.
> I do set the Bios to boot from CD, but it does not load.
> 
> Best wishes Stan
> 
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:17:04 +0100
> > From: wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: Help Please
> > 
> > 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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> > 
> > Wulfmann
> > 
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