Re: newbie installation question

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:27:20 -0700 (PDT)
Tena Sakai <sakaitena@xxxxxxxxx> 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:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/jaunty


--
Vince


That is correct but I wonder if there is a problem with Windows
software reading them bigger? The main Jaunty LiveCD is 699.9999
megabytes :-)

73 karl


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