Did you use infaRecorder to burn the .iso file? There should be more than one file on the disk. Goo <div>On 8/19/07, Bruce Marshall <<a href="mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com"> bmarsh@bmarsh.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Sunday 19 August 2007, Michael & Ulli Hanley wrote: > I just downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 desktop-i386iso onto my laptop hard disk. > I confirmed the integrity of the file with WinMD5Sum. > I burned to a CD using HP Solution center to get to the Windows burn > wizard. I tried opening the file on my hard disk, but message said Windows > cannot open > I then put the CD into an older computer and tried booting it there. > Even though the setup was modified to put the Cd drive ahead of the hard > disk and the computer turned off and on, the computer persisted in > booting up Windows instead. > I could find nothing in the Ubuntu documentation about booting up. > What am I missing? I suspect you burned it as an ordinary file... you need to burn it as an iso-image file which will put boot stuff in the right places. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>