Product vs Hobby

[Travis Watkins]

On 11/20/06, rick gandenberger <morebewon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am a business owner trying to move my business from the drifting
> Hesperus of Windows to the ostensibly best supported alternative OS.
>
> I downloaded the ubuntu-6.06.1-alternate-i386.iso file, put it on a CD,
> stalled the boot when the CD OS-search lite went out as instructed,
> and, sure enough, there's no executable that opens a dot-iso file.
>
> I have searched the ubunto site for days, and googled as well,
> and I'm just wondering if I have to download tiny linux to
> get something that will recognize the supposedly more
> tailorable ubuntu installation program.
>
> The emphasis on caffeine related small animals does nothing
> for what should be a headbanger of a utility.
>

It sounds like you burned the actual .iso file to a CD. You're
supposed to burn a CD 'from an image' using the .iso file as the
image. http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm seems
to tell how to do it with several popular Windows utilities.

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Travis Watkins
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