booting ubuntu

[kev7555]

I downloaded the ubuntu file from the website, used nero to create an image file, burned the image to disk (using nero) but it will not boot from the CD.

Help!!!???

-Kev

[tigstah]

did you change the boot sequence in your bios to boot from cd first.....

[kev7555]

Yes, done all the obvious stuff first. I'm wondering if I made some type of mistake burning the image file.

Anyone have a link to a tutorial on burning an image with Nero 6.3?

[kev7555]

For those who may encounter this problem, here is a good link to the proper download and burning of an iso image:


http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/iso

Apparently, my first attempt at burning an image using Nero was the problem. The above-linked tutorial shows how to quickly download, verfiy checksum to be sure you have an uncorrupted file and burn the ISO to disk. All worked perfectly and quickly.


K

[Gimmpy]

I have been thinking of creating a 10 to 15 gig partition on my secondary HDD to load ubuntu on. Problem I have is - that HDD is FAT32 and not NTFS. If I re-configure that drive as NTFS will I loose anything? Another puzzling thing is that HDD should be 100 gig - but, it is only showing that it is 76.3 gig.

Any thoughts about these

[ghost2003]

I have been thinking of creating a 10 to 15 gig partition on my secondary HDD to load ubuntu on. Problem I have is - that HDD is FAT32 and not NTFS. If I re-configure that drive as NTFS will I loose anything? Another puzzling thing is that HDD should be 100 gig - but, it is only showing that it is 76.3 gig.

Any thoughts about these

First, you should have started a new thread. This has nothing to do with the topic.

As for your first question. I don't know why you want to convert your disk to NTFS to install linux. NTFS support in linux is experimental.

For your seccond question, drive sace is advertised by counting each unit as 1000 of the previous one while your computer counts as 1024 (but if your drive is 100GB it should be 93 GB for real. 76GB is quite small.)

[Colonel Sanders]

I myself have had quite good luck with Linux and NTFS - had to clone a couple hard-drives and the only utility that worked properly was a Gparted LiveCD, Partition Magic 8 and WD drive tools both failed. I don't believe upgrading to NTFS for use with Linux would be a great idea 'cause NTFS support is still new (yet working great for me) but also I don;t believe you would not notice any change.

L J