[HLUG] installing Ubuntu 8.04

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is it because you need a setting in the BIOS
very early on
to boot from CD before booting from hard drive or floppy?


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From: "Roy" <ixu at btopenworld.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:53 PM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [HLUG] installing Ubuntu 8.04

> Hi all,
> I want to install Ubuntu 8.04 onto my 'old' laptop.
> I've downloaded Ubuntu and burnt it onto a CD.
> 
> On Laptop.
> 
> I have C:/> on screen and put the CD in the drive -- nothing happened.
> 
> Can someone guide me thro' the procedure to install Ubuntu ?
> 
> I am generally OK with PC's but not Linux. [whisper, I use Ms XP.]
> 
> Roy
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