[Cialug] Which Distro is best?

[Nick Johnson]

oh one more thing, this will boot like a program right? like it wont install
or anything, or will i have to install and deal with the partitions and all
that garbage?

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Nick Johnson <mainbass64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> alright so what i did so far, i went into nero, said to burn a cd-rom. Then
> went to the iso tab and found the file on my desktop and put it on the cd.
> but there is also a cd-rom (boot) tab that i could use.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Nick Johnson <mainbass64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> so would a program like nero be able to burn that cd?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Nuzum <
>> matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Nick Johnson <mainbass64 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > alright so all im did so far is uninstall wubi from my drive. Now i
>>> just put
>>> > the wubi.exe folder onto a disc and boot from cd?
>>> >
>>>
>>> In the same folder as your wubi.exe there is probably a file called
>>> ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso or similar. It's about 700MB in size.
>>> This is a copy of the CD (a cd image) and you can use your cd burner
>>> software to burn it to a disk. How you do this varies from program to
>>> program but you don't want to just copy the file to a cd. Instead you
>>> need to use something like, "open cd from image" and then tell it to
>>> find this .iso file. It will probably take you right to the "burn
>>> disk" screen at that point.
>>>
>>> You can also try logging onto the freenode network and joining the
>>> #cialug chat room. You'll have to use chatzilla or pidgin or similar
>>> programs to connect to IRC. The server name is irc.freenode.net. There
>>> are several people there who can help you if you ask.
>>>
>>> --
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