Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu disks

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 12 2005 - 22:09:01 EDT


On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Sick Twist wrote:

> >From: botteman <botteman@knology.net>
> >Reply-To: slug@nks.net
> >To: slug@nks.net
> >Subject: Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu disks
> >Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:37:27 -0400
> >
> >Eben King wrote:
> >
> >>Probably faster to go to http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/5.10/ and
> >>download an .iso .
> >
> >Downoaded the 5.10 .iso file and burned it onto a cd.
> >It won't start when I reboot the computer with the
> >disk in the cd drive. (Yes the bios is set to boot from
> >cdrom first.)
> >
> >Is that because I have to somehow make it a bootable cd?
> >
> >Duh
>
> When you burn the CD make sure that you are creating the CD from the ISO
> file as opposed to just storing the file you downloaded as a single data
> file on CD

Also, make sure you don't:
 - mount the .iso loopback
 - burn a copy of the files it contains

That'll make a CD unbootable too (and the md5sum won't match, which
Jonathan already mentioned).

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