Trying to boot for installation

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-04-08 10:20 (GMT-0400) George Reinhart composed:

> I'm moving into Linux for the first time, though I was a Unix user in
> the 80s.  Downloaded the current stable version, and found that at 753MB
> it was too big to fit onto a 702MB CD.  So I looked back a bit and
> downloaded ubuntu-12.04.2-alternate-i386.iso, which fit, figuring I'd
> upgrade after it was installed.  This is going onto a Dell DHP, which is
> set to boot from CD but doesn't have the option of booting from USB.

> So I start it up and it just repeatedly asks me if I want to retry the
> boot.  Is the .iso supposed to be a bootable file?  If not, what else to
> I need?  Will appreciate any help.

Exactly how did you go about getting the .iso onto the CD? An .iso isn't a 
file that you copy onto a CD. It has to subsume the CD by a special "burning" 
process. Exactly how that's done depends on the program you use to do it with.
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