Help: Installing Ubuntu

[Jerry Houston]

On Sunday 31 May 2009 09:03:55 am licohen at edisto.cofc.edu wrote:
> Hey, i'm having trouble installing ubuntu.  I just got a new dell laptop
> with windows vista, and i
> want to use ubuntu instead (although ill keep windows at first).  I've
> downloaded the image
> file, burned it onto a blank dvd and tried to boot up my computer,
> changing the boot sequence
> so the cd drive is the primary boot.  But after that windows still
> starts.  I dont know what to do
> at this point.  help?

You can eliminate one possible problem -- a non-bootable DVD -- by checking to 
see whether it will boot on another computer.  You can easily back out without 
actually installing it there.