<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tt>From Felix Miata <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users%40lists.ubuntu.com?Subject=Re%3A%20Trying%20to%20boot%20for%20installation&In-Reply-To=%3C5162D590.6020104%40earthlink.net%3E" title="Trying to boot for installation">mrmazda at earthlink.net</a> Mon Apr 8 14:34:56 UTC 2013</tt> > Exactly how did you go about getting the .iso onto the CD? An .iso isn't a > file that you copy onto a CD. It has to subsume the CD by a special "burning" > process. Exactly how that's done depends on the program you use to do it with. > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata *** <a href="http://fm.no-ip.com/">http://fm.no-ip.com/</a> Sorry, but I have no idea what tool to use to "unpack" an .ISO file. To quote the instructions at <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/"><http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/></a>, <blockquote> <h3>Desktop CD</h3> The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this CD. There are two images available, each for a different type of computer: <dl> <dt><a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso">PC (Intel x86) desktop CD</a> </dt> <dd>For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.</dd> </dl> </blockquote> So I clicked on the link "<a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso">PC (Intel x86) desktop CD</a>", which led to an ISO file. My current "main" machine (a Dell OptiPlex GX1 running Win2000Pro) has no idea what to do with that file. </body> </html>