[Gloucs] Problem with Ubuntu live

[Steve Greig]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cumming" <john at jsolutions.co.uk>
To: "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Problem with Ubuntu live


> In CDBurnerXP Select the menu Item File->Write Disc From Iso file
>
> Pete Wright AIIE wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- 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
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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Thanks for the tip:
> In CDBurnerXP Select the menu Item File->Write Disc From Iso file
I got it to work and had a go booting from the live CD. All went very well 
and it was impressive to be able to use firefox to browse the internet 
without having to configure anything. I will play around with the live cd a 
bit more but generally am pretty keen to do a dual boot at some point with 
Ubuntu and XP on my laptop.
Steve