<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi, What you say makes sense. I mean it is congruent with what I have been experiencing. As to where I went to get 715 MB image, I went here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and used "desktop edition" tab. I am now going to download it from releases.ubunto.com/jaunty More in a little while. 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, 8:57 PM <div class="plainMail">On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:27:20 -0700 (PDT) Tena Sakai <<a ymailto="mailto:sakaitena@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=sakaitena@yahoo.com">sakaitena@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: > Hi, > > > Did you also tell the computer to boot off the disc? > Yes, but more in a bit. > > The image I downloaded is 715 MB. I tried to burn CD, > instead of DVD, but CD has capacity (after formatted) of > 690 MB and I am short of 25 MB. As such, Roxio refuses > to do it. > > Now back to the point A. > I was playing with boot option. The set up I had was that > go to DVD first, and if that fails then boot off hard drive. > I changed that and got rid of the second option (hard drive). > Then the following came to the screen: > "No bootable devices --strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup > utility, Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics." > > So this means that the DVD I burned is just not bootable. > I see no other option, though. > > Any more ideas? If I understand you well... you download an image of 715MB, which means it is a CD image, but tried to burn it on a DVD ? 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). 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. To know if you ahve burned it as an image and not just as a regular file, after you have burned it, read the CD and see what the Windows file manager shows: if it show a single file (hte ISO file) you did it wrong. If the CD contains contains a dozen directories, then you did it right ;-) The ISO is 715MB hence a little too big to fit on the CD ? Hmm, where did you get your ISO from ? Normally Ubuntu work hard to keep the ISO files in the 700MB limit precisely so that people can burn it. Indeed, a look at Ubuntu's download location for CD images shows that they are all under 700MB: <a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/jaunty" target="_blank">http://releases.ubuntu.com/jaunty</a> -- 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>