Problems installing. No ISO, WUBI not working

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> nik gare wrote:
>> The iso is not being correctzly download - what program are you using 
>> for this, and what is the full name of the file that you are downloading?
> Some Windows based archiving tools can view inside .ISO CD images and 
> thus they associate with those files and their icons change which is 
> probably why he's seeing them as archive files.
> 
> He may not understand how to correctly burn an image to CD.  He might be 
> just burning the .iso file itself to a CD-R instead of having his 
> burning software write the image file out to the CD-R.  I'm grasping at 
> straws here because he's being rather vague about how he's burning the 
> disks.  I could be wrong though, its only a theory.
> 
> If he wants to install Ubuntu using Wubi he doesn't need to burn the 
> .iso to CD at all.  Grab a copy of Daemon Tools and use it to mount the 
> .iso image.  That is what I did.

Daemon Tools lite is a must have for a Windows box IMO:
<http://www.disc-tools.com/download/daemon>
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