newbie installation questions

[Fred Roller]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 05:20 +0100, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:10:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tena Sakai <sakaitena at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: newbie installation question
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> 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
> 

Tena,
  Another couple of options (linux=choices :D)
	1.  From the folks at howtoforge you can create a live usb drive
(thumbdrive) just follow this link for step by step.
http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-thumbdrive-from-windows-with-usbuntu-live-creator

	or
	2.  Use Wubi from the ubuntu site.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#wubi

Hope one of these help.

Fred