<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Vince, I cut CD and that CD is letting me run hardware test now. I think I will let it run the memory test all night long and catch some sleep myself and boot ubuntu tomorrow. What you told me is indeed a fantastic operational wisdom. But I still don't understand why bunch of files cannot be put onto different media. If I have a directory full of data, and I can transport it on a floppy, tape, memory stick, or whatever. So long as I have a compatible device to read the data, media doesn't matter, does it? I thank you very much. Regards, Tena --- On Tue, 6/2/09, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez@modulonet.fr> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez@modulonet.fr> Subject: Re: newbie installation question To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 10:19 PM <div class="plainMail">> I am now finished with downloading. It is 699 MB AHHH, 699 not 715, phew ! That should work much better ! ;-) > > No wonder it didn't work... an ISO image is not just a file, it's an > > image of the media (hence it's name). > Hence its name? I lost you. The only letter in ISO that I can see > in "image of the media" is I. What does the rest of the acronym > stand for? Or is it acronym at all? Huuu, here, I only meant that the terminology calls it an ISO "image" (rather than "file") for a good reason ! ;-) > > So an "image" of a CD can only be go to a CD media, not DVD! > > And vice versa. So you must burnt your ISO to a CD not a DVD. > > I take your word for it. But why is that? Isn't a bit just a bit? Why > can't a set of bits put onto CD and not DVD? Well it's jsut how things are. A CD image is a CD image and a DVD image is a DVD image... triyng to fit a sqaure in a round is not going to work is it ?! ;-) I can understand that the fact tha ta DVD and a CD medium are visually a similarly sied piece of round plastic, however in the inside, a DVD is not a CD... hence why you (used to) require a different optical drive to write a CD or a DVD. When you had 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks, you would not try to stuff a 3.5 disk into a 5.25" drive... same for a Cd and DVD... two different things. -- Vince -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=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" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>