Welcome, Rod Glad to hear of your interest in EMC2. There may be a few issues with Nero and burning. IMO it has to do with those other OS folk not wanting bootable stuff reproduced. After you've burned one, pop it into the reader again and look at the file structure on the disk. If there is only one file with an .iso or .img or some such extenison, Nero did not make a bootable disk. If there are 9 or so directories and a few files then you've got a good disk. I don't know how to make Nero do this but somewhere buried in the tabs or preferences there should be a bootable or direct copy ability.
That done, you'll need to make certain that the "sacrificial" machine can boot from CDROM and has the CD reader as first boot device. These are bios settings. Once you've got it booted up you will see an install icon on the display. During that process you'll be asked if you want to save some of the old file system or can Ubuntu use the whole disk. Good luck Ray On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 13:06 +0100, Rod Welland wrote: > I,m totally new to Linux of any kind but I wish to use EMC2 I have > downloaded the liveCD and created an image on a CD using Nero but > can't seem to get it to do anything. Its supposed to be bootable but > does this mean bootable in XP as well or bootable in linux and I > assume that this means putting the CD in the drive and restarting the > PC by swithcing off and on again. Also if I like it and by all that > Ive seen on it I probably will I have a 800Mhz pentium PC with Windows > 98 and a 10Gig H/D that I could dedicate to Linux and EMC2. So, how > would I go about this, ie could I re-format it using Windows or DOS or > does Linux use a totally different format system. In which case would > I need to source another bit of software to do this or does the Linux > install do this for me. Also will EMC2 only work under Ubuntu or would > it also work under Mandrake 10.1 because I also have a copy of this > which apparently will install alongside Windows which would be useful > on my indoor PC which has 170Gig of H/D. > There a few questions here but I think my first priority is to try to > get the Live CD up and running and see where to go from there. > > Hoping some of you guy,s out there can help. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
