Re: Booting Linux

Did you use infaRecorder to burn the .iso file? There should be more than
one file on the disk.
Goo

On 8/19/07, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sunday 19 August 2007, Michael & Ulli Hanley wrote:
I just downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 desktop-i386iso onto my laptop hard disk.
I confirmed the integrity of the file with WinMD5Sum.
I burned to a CD using HP Solution center to get to the Windows burn
wizard. I tried opening the file on my hard disk, but message said
Windows
cannot open
I then put the CD into an older computer and tried booting it there.
Even though the setup was modified to put the Cd drive ahead of the hard
disk and the computer turned off and on, the computer persisted in
booting up Windows instead.
I could find nothing in the Ubuntu documentation about booting up.
What am I missing?

I suspect you burned it as an ordinary file... you need to burn it as an
iso-image file which will put boot stuff in the right places.

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