Please Help

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

Leslie Bounan wrote:
> I downloaded to product and this is the message that I am getting
>  
> When it first came up to download I clicked on "Run" and at the end 
> when it went to install that was the message that I
> received.
> I did not bring up notepad in any way shape or form
When you download Ubuntu it comes as a file with a .ISO extension on the 
file name.  This is what's called a CD-ROM Image File.  Basically, a 
CD-ROM, a physical disk, was read by a computer and its contents were 
converted into a file that can be downloaded from the Internet and later 
transfered back to a bland CD-Recordable disk commonly called a CD-R.

There are two ways in which you can install Ubuntu.  One is to use a 
piece of CD/DVD Burning software to convert the .ISO image back into a 
working CD-ROM on a blank CD-R disk or you can install something like 
Daemon Tools which mimics a CD-ROM without you needing to burn the 
Ubuntu .ISO image to a blank CD-R.

Daemon Tools is software for Windows that makes a VIRTUAL CD/DVD-ROM 
drive appear in My Computer, but its not a real physical drive, but 
software that lets you use .ISO image files AS IF it were a real CD-ROM 
or DVD-ROM disk.  As far as Windows is concern it looks, acts, and feels 
like a REAL CD/DVD-ROM but its not.

Of course, using Daemon Tools limits how you can install Ubuntu.  Using 
that option you can only install it inside of Windows.  This means you 
don't change the size of the disk partition that Windows is installed on 
but create a file that Ubuntu will "SEE" as a partition but really isn't 
when you install and run it.  Doing this leaves Windows and all of your 
files alone.  You can do the same if you burn the .ISO to a CD-R disk 
but you're other option is to get rid of Windows completely and make 
your computer 100% Ubuntu.

The Ubuntu .ISO image file is bootable when you burn it to a CD-ROM.  
That means that if you put the CD-R in your CD/DVD-ROM drive and restart 
your computer it should start up with the Ubuntu start menu instead of 
Windows ... assuming you  have a computer which CAN boot from a CD or 
DVD-ROM disk.  Most computers these days can do so.

If you have any further questions just ask.

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