starship_troopers Posted June 28, 2006 CID Share Posted June 28, 2006 i have a spare harddrive and want to try out ubuntu linux 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) from this site http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/ubuntu-releases/6.06/ i selected PC (Intel x86) desktop CD to download and it finished as a zipped file. my only question is when i burn the file to a cd do i burn the zipped file or do i unzip it and burn that? i knwo this is a noob question lol but i've never burned an iso before. thanks, starship troopers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 28, 2006 CID Share Posted June 28, 2006 unzip it and ther should be a .iso file burn that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted June 28, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 28, 2006 unzip it and ther should be a .iso file burn that. thanks, thats what i did right after i posted but i didnt' come back and edit my post. thanks, starship troopers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted June 30, 2006 CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 it depends.. it looks like the download is the ISO.. in which case, i know that winrar, detects it as a "zip" file.. That would mean that you would want to burn a image off the iso.. without extracting it.. I have never tried to extract then burn the extracted files.. I figure that if the checksum is good on the iso why risk the extract.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted June 30, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 it depends.. it looks like the download is the ISO.. in which case, i know that winrar, detects it as a "zip" file.. That would mean that you would want to burn a image off the iso.. without extracting it.. I have never tried to extract then burn the extracted files.. I figure that if the checksum is good on the iso why risk the extract.. at first i burned the unzipped file, but i re did it and burn the zipped file and booted with that...but i can't get past that...when i boot it goes into dos and when i try to boot it gives me an error. and i have to reboot. i gave up on it rather than ask a bunch of questions. but my friend is gonna give me ubuntu 5.10 and 6.06 cds that he's ordering...hes getting like 5 or so of them...i'll try then... i'll try again now if you have any suggestions how to boot with the burned .iso i have. please sorry for these questions but when it comes to an OS i've never done anything except format xp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnHiersIII Posted June 30, 2006 CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 Some burning software you have to tell it to burn from an image and then point to the .iso file. Ubuntu is pretty straight forward on the install. What error are you getting? NTLDR.dll missing or such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted June 30, 2006 CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 I don't think you can extract and burn the files since you would lose the boot sector with the extraction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted June 30, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 I'm on linux right now. i just installed it and put an anti virus on it. thats all so far. just updating that i installed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 30, 2006 CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 I'm on linux right now. i just installed it and put an anti virus on it. thats all so far. just updating that i installed it. you dont need a antivirus for linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted June 30, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 you dont need a antivirus for linux i have onlly downloaded it...didn't "install" it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 30, 2006 CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 i have onlly downloaded it...didn't "install" it. it will just slow you down if you install it. linux does not need antivirus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted June 30, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 it will just slow you down if you install it. linux does not need antivirus. ok thanks. i have a problem with firefox ...it won't let me bookmark the pages heres a screenshot of the error message Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted June 30, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 30, 2006 ummmm....i rebooted and now i cant change my reolution from 640x480..there are no other resolutions. how do i get back to 1024x768 or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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