unable to install ubuntu 16.04.2

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 29 May 2017 16:53:55 +0100 (BST) "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04.2 iso, and created the DVD. when I tried to install this
> on a Windows XP machine and also a Windows 7 laptop, in both cases I get a purple screen with at the base of the screen a pictogram of a rectangle followed by
> "=" followed a pictogram of a man in a circle.
> 
> nothing further seems to happens.
> 
> why am I unable to install 16.04.2?

Question:

I am presuming the Windows XP machine is 32-bit.

Did you download the i386 or amd64 Ubuntu 16.04.2 iso?  

The amd64 version is not going to work on the Windows XP machine. It won't
work on the Windows 7 laptop, if that machine is also 32-bit (I am not sure if 
Windows 7 came out after the general "end of the production" of 32-bit Intel-ish 
processors.)

> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 

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