Help Please

[Robert]

Jerry S. wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Blessings
>>>
>>> Wulfmann
>>>
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> Better yet, in windows, double click the iso file. It will take you your default cd burner (nero) and all you have to do is click BURN button. 
>
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