Gravegun

I am trying to expand beyond Windows... I have had multiple recommendations for using Ubuntu! I am use to dealing with ISO files and mounting and dealing with them in other ways. However, I am not so use to burning DvDs period. My friend gave me a burnt version of Ubuntu 7.10 and I think its Live Disk. I have tried it in this dell "Latitude/D600" and I cant get it to boot to the disk. I was just wondering if there was some certain what I have to burn it, or some certain DVD-R disk I need to buy? Or if theres a certain version of Ubuntu 7.10 I need to get? oh buy the way I used infrarecorder to burn it.

diroga

did you set the laptop to boot from cd/dvd drive from within BIOS?
Try opening the disk when i windows to look around and see if there is anytihing on the disk. Have your friend try booting the disk on his computer to see that the disk is good.

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lion149

I had the same problem, apparently there are issues with burning it to a cd cause it is an ISO file. So i just orderd the CD from the website. Of course it free but it takes 6 weeks. Worth it though to know you have a good copy of the OS.

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imsati

When burning a Live CD, it's preferable to burn the .iso at the slowest speed allowed by your burner. DeepBurner is a great burning utility for Windows.

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diroga

I use CDBurnerXP because it detects all my driver speeds, DeepBurner did not for DVD writing.

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Gravegun

Indeed I did made it first on the boot. Alright I am going to check out those burning programs.

Motoxrdude

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Try deepburner free edition and burn the ISO as an Image and not the file itself. When you install deepburner you will see three options and i beleive it's the last one on the list.
You can use other burning programs, just make sure to burn them as the image and not the file itself.

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