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On 4/7/06, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Things always mess up for me.  I just never get it right.
>
> After hearing others talk of how easy it is to install Ubuntu I
> downloaded the file, burned the cd, checked that my PC boots first from
> the CD-ROM drive, and tried it.  Nothing.  It just launched Windows
> XP-Pro, fixpack2, as usual.
>
> What stupid thing have I not done? Or done that I shouldn't have done?
> Any ideas?


How did you burn the CD?  What is supposed to happen is that the .ISO file
is used to create the CD; it is an image, similar to a compressed backup.
If you simply copied the .ISO file to the CD that is not enough.  The
process to create a CD from an ISO image is different for every software.
You may also need to flip a switch somewhere to make the CD bootable.

If time is not critical, it looks from the website that they will send you
CD's for little or no money, so you could try that.

Just a thought ...

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx

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