[HLUG] Unable to download Ubuntu on my Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 (32 bit)

[Julian Robbins]

Hello Jonathan

Thanks for getting in touch with our group. I hope we can help you.

For what its worth I think your problem may be in how you're burning the
ISO file as its different to burning a Cd with a single file on it. You
have to burn it as an iso which creates lots of files and folders on the cd
to install Linux.

Otherwise, you could instead get a Linux magazine and use one of the Cd's
on there, there usually a DVD with Linux Mint or Ubuntu etc with each
magazine.

Lastly, perhaps one of the members can lend you a cd .

Julian

On 2 December 2014 at 20:34, Julian Robbins <joolsr1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> This was forward to the list from our website contact page. Please get in
> touch directly with Jonathan if you can help as he isnt a member of the LUG
> as yet.
>
> thanks
>
> Julian
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Roger <jonathan at roger91.orangehome.co.uk>
> Date: 2 December 2014 at 19:03
> Subject: Unable to download Ubuntu on my Microsoft Windows XP Professional
> Version 2002 Service Pack 2 (32 bit)
> To: contact at hlug.org.uk
>
>
> From: Jonathan Roger <jonathan at roger91.orangehome.co.uk>
> Subject: Unable to download Ubuntu on my Microsoft Windows XP Professional
> Version 2002 Service Pack 2 (32 bit)
>
> Message Body:
> I have spent four days unsuccessfully trying to download Ubuntu 14.04.  I
> have tried all the links and read the advice and instructions to download
> the necessary ISO and zip files etc, but unsuccessfully.  As you can see
> I'm not an ICT professional.  I would much appreciate if someone could
> download it manually for me and I'm willing to pay.  Please telephone me 01432
> 344 662.
> I need my computer with an anti-virus to use now to apply for on-line
> jobs. I don't want to buy the Microsoft office 2013 for 110 pounds (I've
> just noticed my keyboard also doesn't type the pound symbol anymore
> -odd?).  Unfortunately I'm unable to wait until the next Herefordshire
> Linux User Group meeting at the end of January, 2015; because I'm
> unemployed.  I can'y risk using my computer on XP Professional without a
> fire wall & an anti-virus.  McAffe anti-virus refuses to download unless I
> upgrade my OS, and this means buying the Microsoft windows 2013.  I have a
> good second hand computer: Veriton 1000 (RAM 1GB DDR2 memory and Intel 1.86
> GHz  speed, purchase in 2010).  Ubuntu should download.  I have completely
> cleared my computer of bugs by clearing & reloading my OS and then using a
> free Malware anti-virus.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.  I would much prefer talking to
> someone to arrange to pay on an hourly rate to set me up on Ubuntu.
> Regards,
> Jonathan
> Jonathan Roger
> A resident only five minutes walk from the centre of Hereford City
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