Can't read disc.

[Alfred]

 Go in the Bios to do this. Set the Boot up sequence to boot from CD or
DVD first - Then insert the Install disc. Turn off the machine. Then
turn it on- It now boots from the DVD, and Linux comes up in live mode.
Then click on the Install Icon on the desktop. Now it will ask you in
one question where you want it. Then it installs there. No Format
problems, or reading problems.

Alfred! 
-----Original Message-----
From: JBoon <hazanjo at cogeco.ca>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Can't read disc.
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:53:53 -0400

Hi,  as a raw newbie, I seem to be missing something obvious.
 
I downloaded D:\ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso  as instructed from the
ubuntu site.  I then burned it onto a DVD using Toshiba Diskcreator on
my laptop.  
 
Then I took the disk over to the target machine, a desktop.   Whether in
windows, or if I exit to MSDOS, neither will read the disc.
 
I then brought the disc back to the original laptop to study what files
had been copied to see if I had to have some kind of 'installation'
file.  Now, all I can do with this disc is look at the Toshiba
Diskcreator which informs me I cannot erase or add files to it.  But
Windows will not let me look at the actual file.
 
Please help.
 
thankyou
 
John Boon