Re: Help with Switching from Windows

James Takac wrote:
Hi Matthew

On Thursday 03 July 2008 06:52:21 Matthew Bartek wrote:
Hello and good afternoon.

I apologize if this question is very basic and is getting sent to
many people as I am new to Ubuntu and to this listserv. I am
trying to switch from Windows (read: liberate myself) and I ahve
downloaded the iso file, verified it using md5sum (spelling?),
and have tried to create a bootable cd, but it hasn't worked.
While this problem could be with my computer (the computer that I
want to load Ubuntu onto is basically broken--I tried to reset
the boot order, but it said "operating system not found" unless I
allowed it to boot from the hard disk), I am wondering how to
check to see if the cd that I created from teh iso file will
actually work. I actually made two: one using the windows XP cd
burning system, and one using Nero. For the windows disc, I
dragged the file into my CD drive and then clicked on: "burn
disc". For Nero (I have version 7), I followed these
instructions: http://www.bay-wolf.com/burnimage.htm

Still, when my put the cd in my computer and try to boot from it,
it fails. Any thoughts?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Matt



What do you mean exactly by fails? One thing I've learnt over the
years is that the speed of the burn can make a difference for fussy
drives. If you burned at high speed retry a burn as slow as nero
will allow and you may find it makes a difference

James


Also IMO the takes-the-cake burner in Windows is the free and very
small footprint ImgBurn. Go here:

<http://www.imgburn.com>
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