newbie installation question

[Tena Sakai]

Hi,

> you may want to use a usb key and a program called
> unetbootin(1) to
decompress the iso image to the usb
> key and boot/install from it.

> 1 - http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

I am not sure what you mean by "use a usb key".  But I
downloaded the file from sourceforge and try to run it.
Here's what it told me:
"C:\Users\blablabla\unetbootin-windows-344.exe is not
a valid Win32 application.

I am starting to feel that there is a conspiracy from microsoft
and they want to stop me from using linux at any cost.

Tena

--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: newbie installation question
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 8:39 PM



On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Tena Sakai <sakaitena at yahoo.com> wrote:


Hi,

> Did you also tell the computer to boot off the disc?
Yes, but more in a bit.

> You might want to try a slow speed burn (2x) using a CD.
The image I downloaded is 715 MB.  I tried to burn CD,

instead of DVD, but CD has capacity (after formatted) of
690 MB and I am short of 25 MB.  As such, Roxio refuses
to do it.

Now back to the point A.
I was playing with boot option.  The set up I had was that

go to DVD first, and if that fails then boot off hard drive.
I changed that and got rid of the second option (hard drive).
Then the following came to the screen:
"No bootable devices --strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup

utility, Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics."

So this means that the DVD I burned is just not bootable.
I see no other option, though.

Any more
 ideas?

Tena


--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Tab Gilbert <tabbox at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Tab Gilbert <tabbox at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: newbie installation question
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>

Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 7:46 PM






it has written in the ISO format.



It is strange, though, that it ignores the DVD and boots off
the disk.  I don't get it.


This might be of some assistance.



https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto



Did you also tell the computer to boot off the disc?  You might want to try a slow speed burn (2x) using a CD.  

tab


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you may want to use a usb key and a program called unetbootin(1) to decompress the iso image to the usb key and boot/install from it.

1 - http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/


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