[Gloucs] Problem with Ubuntu live

[Pete Wright AIIE]

what you need to look for in the menu's is a burn image option which then 
asks for a file, this you then point to the ubuntu .iso file. it seems you 
are just telling it to burn this file to the cd.

Pete


>From: "Steve Greig" <steve at stevespages.org.uk>
>Reply-To: Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>To: "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Problem with Ubuntu live
>Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 23:46:27 +0100
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Francis Barton" 
><fbarton at pygoscelis.org.uk>
>To: "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Problem with Ubuntu live
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>>Pete Wright AIIE wrote:
>>>You should try to get hold of nero or alcohol or some sort of image
>>>burning tool. search google for them. What happens is the image contains
>>>all the files inside of it that has to go onto the cd. Basically the
>>>program doesnt put the .iso file onto the cd, but the contents of the
>>>file onto the CD.
>>>Hope thats helped,
>>>Peter Wright.
>>
>>CD Burner XP worked well for me when I needed to burn a .iso to CD under
>>Win XP.
>>
>>see: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
>>
>>It's freeware and easy to use, and makes _bootable CDs_, which some
>>other free burner programs for Windows do not.
>>
>>Francis.
>>(Who has previously repeatedly gone through the grief of trying to get
>>iso images onto CD - survivors, stick together! When you get Ubuntu up
>>and running you will find CD burning so easy under GNOME/Nautilus!)
>>
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>Thanks again for all your replies. I am still struggling.... I downloaded 
>the CD Burner XP program and went through the process of burning a bootable 
>cd with the ubunto iso file I had downloaded before. After doing it I 
>looked at the CD contents and still had just the one file: 
>ubuntu-5.04-live-i386.iso That is exactly what I started with so I guess I 
>have copied the file to the CD not burnt it to the CD  (I definitely 
>pressed a button which said 'burn' and had an icon of a cd in flames).  I 
>did try and boot the computer with it but it just went straight into XP as 
>before.
>
>It looks like I am not using the CD Burner XP program correctly and a 
>second attempt gave the same result. If you can think of where I may be 
>going wrong I would be very grateful for advice here.
>
>Steve
>
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