Old Enough wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2007 04:59:45 GMT, andrew <andrew@ilium.invalid> wrote:
>
>>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
>
> Thank you, Andrew, and all the others who replied.
> This certainly seems to be a newsgroup with a lot of friendly and
> helpful people.
>
> I have downloaded the Live CD, and the computer boots from it, using
> Ubuntu.
> There are other issues now (the main and first one being that my
> screen (a 19" LCD) shows an error message "Out of Range" which I have
> not been able to get rid of, so far.
>
Where does it display this message? If within the GUI environment, then you
can fix the prob by editing xorg.conf and inputting the hsync and vsync
values for your monitor. A google will tell you how this needs to be done
in xorg.conf.
Cheers.
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