<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Karl, No, sourceforge had a problem, but it had nothing to do with ubuntu. Earlier, while I was unable to create a bootable cd/dvd, someone suggested to use something else. This something else was a software which in turn goes to download whatever the list of software it knows to handle (one of which is ubuntu). As I downloaded that software from sourceforge, I couldn't execute it. Vista said it was not executable, or words to that effect. After I read what Vince wrote, I went to: <a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/jaunty" target="_blank">http://releases.ubuntu.com/jaunty</a> to download the image, as suggested by Vince, and that image was fine and I was able to burn CD with it. At the outset, I did go to: <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download</a> and chose desktop edition. Then it gave me a whole bunch of choice as to download site all over the world. I chose a site geographically not far from where I am. But in the hindsight I think this site had wrong image in the wrong folder and I, being a trusting person, down- loaded that (wrong) image twice. Perhaps, there ought to be a sign in a large font to alert folks that a) the size of image one winds up should be xxx mb and b) one must burn CD, not DVD. It would be good if there is a way to check what one receives is correct one or otherwise by something like MD5 or GPG. Just my two bits. Thank you for your concern. I appreciate it. Tena --- On Wed, 6/3/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: newbie installation question To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 4:58 AM <div class="plainMail">Tena Sakai wrote: > Hi, > > > >> 1 - <a href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/</a> >> > > I am not sure what you mean by "use a usb key". But I > downloaded the file from sourceforge and try to run it. > Here's what it told me: > "C:\Users\blablabla\unetbootin-windows-344.exe is not > a valid Win32 application. > > I am starting to feel that there is a conspiracy from microsoft > and they want to stop me from using linux at any cost. > > Tena > > No the conspiracy is caused by your obtaining Ubuntu from Sourceforge. That is not the proper source for Ubuntu. You need to delete the iso file you got from Sourceforge, and get the iso file from the Ubuntu web page at: <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download</a> and get the Desktop version that is just a few bytes smaller than 700 MBytes :-) Sorry you have to D/L another monster :-) 73 Karl -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 <a href="http://counter.li.org" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org</a>. PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7 -- 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>