On 2007-11-23, Old Enough <ab@cd.ca> wrote:
> I just downloaded ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso
>
> I understood that, if I burned this to a CD, my computer would boot
> from the CD to the LINUX (ubuntu) OS.
You have inadvertently downloaded the iso that will /not/ do as you
were imagining. I guess you were planning on trying Ubuntu simply from
the cd /without/ installing it? For this you need the Live CD not the
alternate CD.
Try:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/download
and /don't/ select the alternate cd. You can still install with the
alternate cd but the 'try before you buy' of the Live CD is not there.
Andrew
--
Now I can praise him, now that I can stand by to mourn
and speak before this web that killed my father; yet
I grieve for the thing done, the death, and all our race.
I have won; but my victory is soiled, and has no pride.