ubuntu wont run ??

eracer2006 · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:19

got ubuntu on live cd, burnt it as iso and shows up as winrar object, so i rebooted put cd in checked bios to check if cd runs first before hdd and it does! however windows just boots up......wth ??

how do i get live cd to work and then install linux if it doesnt even run ?

the iso contains autorun.inf which contains

[autorun]
open=start.exe
icon=ubuntu.ico

any ideas ??

also what do i need to keep my windows xp partiition ?, and use dual boot ?

is it,

windows fat 32 /home ubuntu

???

squiffy · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:21

Have you set BIOS boot option as CD-ROM as first priority? Were you sitting in front of the computer as it booted?

eracer2006 · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:22

yup and yup, im trying to do it to this laptop before the pc!

growse · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:29

You sure you burnt the iso properly and don't just have the iso on disk? You didn't extract the files from the iso and burn them to disc separately did you?

eracer2006 · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:31

nope i did it at uni using the same way i did it for the free student xp they give you, drag and drop the file onto the cdr, and click burn.

feriso · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:43

Sounds liek you just copied to iso onto the cd - sorry iof this states the obvious but you'll need to burn the image using say nero or poweriso

eracer2006 · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:52

oh right so win xp burner cant do it ? howcome it worked fine when i did it for windows ?

feriso · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:54

XP burner won;t burn an image

Sounds like the windows installer ran as an update rather than a virgin install.

eracer2006 · 23 Mar 2007 at 21:57

how would it run as an update on a hdd i recieved from ocuk new ?

jaric · 23 Mar 2007 at 22:02

Use ImgBurn to burn the image file to CD.

eracer2006 · 23 Mar 2007 at 22:02

currently "writing iso to cd" in cdburnerxpro lets see if this works...

eracer2006 · 23 Mar 2007 at 22:45

ok its installing now, didnt have much clue what to do with the partitions so i left the windows one, created an ext after it called / , and a 1gb swap file.

grub is being installed on hda0, not sure if thats right.

if it messes up ill just delete everything and install ubuntu only....

feriso · 23 Mar 2007 at 22:52

eracer2006 said:
how would it run as an update on a hdd i received from ocuk new ?

Dunno -was just suggesting a possibility - might just be one of those things :confused:

eracer2006 · 24 Mar 2007 at 01:01

its all installed and runs remarkebly fast even on a lowly 1.8ghz pentium M!

installed and setup about 50 apps in the time i would have done 5 in windoze.

only thing is sound doesnt work, and it wont play movies in firefox, only flash (and yeh ive installed totem etc)

weeeeeeeeee