newbie installation question

[Victor Padro]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Tena Sakai <sakaitena at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Did you also tell the computer to boot off the disc?
> Yes, but more in a bit.
>
> > You might want to try a slow speed burn (2x) using a CD.
> The image I downloaded is 715 MB.  I tried to burn CD,
> instead of DVD, but CD has capacity (after formatted) of
> 690 MB and I am short of 25 MB.  As such, Roxio refuses
> to do it.
>
> Now back to the point A.
> I was playing with boot option.  The set up I had was that
> go to DVD first, and if that fails then boot off hard drive.
> I changed that and got rid of the second option (hard drive).
> Then the following came to the screen:
> "No bootable devices --strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup
> utility, Press F5 to run onboard diagnostics."
>
> So this means that the DVD I burned is just not bootable.
> I see no other option, though.
>
> Any more ideas?
>
> Tena
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 6/2/09, Tab Gilbert <tabbox at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Tab Gilbert <tabbox at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: newbie installation question
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 7:46 PM
>
>
>
>
>> it has written in the ISO format.
>>
>> It is strange, though, that it ignores the DVD and boots off
>> the disk.  I don't get it.
>>
>
>
> This might be of some assistance.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
>
>
> Did you also tell the computer to boot off the disc?  You might want to try
> a slow speed burn (2x) using a CD.
>
> tab
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you may want to use a usb key and a program called unetbootin(1) to
decompress the iso image to the usb key and boot/install from it.

1 - http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

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