<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hi Wulfman, Thanks for your email and help. What I did was to download the ISO file and then burn it to a CD using Nero as you say burning a Data CD. But it just will not load. I do not understand your suggestion re the file being an image. Could you explain step by step what I need to do. I have the Ubuntu ISO file which I need to transfer to a bootable CD. I do set the Bios to boot from CD, but it does not load. Best wishes Stan > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:17:04 +0100 > From: wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk > To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: Help Please > > Email Message wrote: > > 1] I desperately want to get away from Microsoft but cannot > > make head nor tail of Ubuntu. > > > > I have downloaded Ubuntu 4 times and burned it to CD but it will not > > load. The ISO Ubuntu file seems OK. > > > > I have a blank formatted HDD and put the Ubuntu CD into the CD drive, > > set the Bios to boot from CD, but it does not load. > > > > What could the problem be? > > > > I have been to the page that offers to check the integrity of the ISO > > file but it is so technical with command strings etc which is > > meaningless to me and describing numbers of different options. > > > > In any case I doubt of the file is corrupted I have downloaded it > > numbers of time with always the same result. > > Did you create a data CD (with the ISO file visible when you mount it) > instead of burning the ISO (which is a disk image)? When I first > started, that was my big mistake. I am assuming here that you burned > the CD under Windows using something like Nero. > > The other option is that you need to enable the CD as a boot device in > your BIOS and put it first in the queue. > > HTH > > -- > Blessings > > Wulfmann > > Wulf Credo: > Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. > Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. > Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark. > Copyright July 17, 1988 by Del Goetz > > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users <hr />Get news, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. <a href='http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx ' target='_new'>Check it out!</a></body> </html>