On 5/22/07, William Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First, thank you everyone for taking the time to read this message.
The situation:
I have downloaded 3-4 different distro ISO's and burned them to disk. My PC
is set to boot from CD but I could get neither Ubuntu, Fedora, or Linspire
to boot from the CDs that I burned. Mandriva was the only downloaded distro
that came up when I rebooted.
I have "Linux For Dummies, 6th Edition" and the book's CD booted up
immediately but installation problems kept me from installing Fedora Core 3
(Sigh). I got "Beginning Ubuntu Linux, First Edition" and likewise, the
books CD booted up immediately and I installed Ubuntu (Yes!). I will use
this to *learn* LINUX.
The Questions (3):
1) Is it a normal occurrance that downloaded/burned distros do not boot up?
It is a moderately frequent occurrence that downloaded distros are not
properly burned to CD.
2) Am I doing (or failing to do) something wrong (downloading, burning,
booting) due to my inexperience?
I don't know. Tell me what you did. When you say "burned them to
disk" what program did you use, and how did you use it?
If you put the CD into the drive while Windows or Ubuntu is running,
what happens? Can you read files and "folders" on the disk?
3) Is it difficult (for a newbie) to install a current version of
LINUX/Ubuntu on his (dual-boot XP) PC with an older (unsupported) version
already installed?
Should not be too difficult once you get over the problems of
producing a usable CD. Depends somewhat on what you want to keep from
the older Linux installation and details of how it was done. Need
more information to give you a better answer.
If you are local to this area, come to one of our InstallFests. There
will be two in June, most likely on June 2 and June 9. Stay tuned for
the official announcement.
carl
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