Help With install of Ubuntu

[Surrey_Man]

hi all i cant seem to get ubuntu to boot from the cd i downloaded

I have the server vir and copyed the iso file to cd but it wont boot from it any ideas where i can get the cd for free (UK vir) or how to get it working


cheers
Jon

 

[BillytheImpaler]

What does it do when it tries to boot the CD? Does it freeze somewhere? Does it not boot off the CD at all?

 

[ubern00b23]

Ah... but did you just copy the iso over to the cd and make a school boy error.. instead of burning an iso image onto the cd?

Otherwise try burning it at a slower speed.

 

[Surrey_Man]

What does it do when it tries to boot the CD? Does it freeze somewhere? Does it not boot off the CD at all?

It goes so quick some thing pops up but i cant read it

 

[Surrey_Man]

Ah... but did you just copy the iso over to the cd and make a school boy error.. instead of burning an iso image onto the cd?

Otherwise try burning it at a slower speed.

Ooops yes
how do i burn the iso image onto the cd ?

 

[ubern00b23]

Depends what you are using.. but I think with nero or cdburnerXP (if you are burning from windows) somewhere in the menus above there should be something like:

Write disc from ISO file or Create disk from ISO

 

[Surrey_Man]

yea am on nero i think vir 6 and windows xp
ill have a look and see if i find it

 

[BillytheImpaler]

CDBurnerXP Pro is a free (as in beer) application for Windows to burn .iso images to CD or DVD. Try it out if you don't have image burning software already.

 

[Surrey_Man]

ok stuck again
all goes ok untill after reboot
it asks for the username and pw i enter them then i get a dos like window
any ideas??

 

[Scythe]

ok stuck again
all goes ok untill after reboot
it asks for the username and pw i enter them then i get a dos like window
any ideas??

Please link to what you have downloaded, sounds like the wrong iso

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Please link to what you have downloaded, sounds like the wrong iso

He said he got the server version. The server does not install a GUI, is it's not really necessary in a LAMP setup.

FENIX, what are you looking to do? Do you want a desktop OS or a server?

EDIT: LAMP, by the way, stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.

 

[D.P.]

hi all i cant seem to get ubuntu to boot from the cd i downloaded

I have the server vir and copyed the iso file to cd but it wont boot from it any ideas where i can get the cd for free (UK vir) or how to get it working


cheers
Jon

servir != desktop
You could install KDE etc, but as y beginner you might find it easier just to install a desktop distro from scrath (I reccomend KUbuntu)

 

[Surrey_Man]

yea got it all working now
downloaded the desktop vir and made a disk image
last time i just unziped it all to cd then wondered why it would not work Ooops

Thank you all for your help
I now know i need to disk image iso files

Cheers
Jon