[SOLVED] Installing Ubuntu Breezy From Dl'd ISO

[Todd50]

Hi All, Very pleased to be here. :)

I am a Newbie to Linux, presently installing a number of distro's on a second box I have kicking around. Started with Red Hat 7.3 as I found the partitioning tool the handiest. Would like to multiboot with Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog and Ubuntu Breazy.

Here's the thing.... :confused:

I have downloaded an ISO of Breezy to my XP box (separate box altogether) and used Nero to burn it to disc but when I put it in the drive to "boot to install" (the bios is set to boot from cdrom), the machine just boots to the existing OS as though the install (ISO) disc is not in the drive. The Ubuntu Hoary Disc I used for installation was sent to me from Ubuntu so not the same issue with that install.

What is the difference btwn the two discs and what am I doing wrong? I attempted to make the Breezy ISO 'bootable' with Nero but to no avail!!

Thanks in advance... really enjoy this forum!!!

Todd

[knute]

If you want both hoary and breezy on your system, in 3 easy steps.
Since you already have hoary installed once great, you already know the procedure.
Step one: Install hoary again on a separate partition.
Step two: After the install is finished, go into /etc/apt/sources.list and change all occourances of hoary to breezy (this trick works with the newest version as well -- dapper)
Step three: as root: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

[cuiq]

How did you burn the disk? Did you open nero and create a data file? If so this is wrong.

Here's what you should do.
Open Nero

# If the Nero Wizard opens by default then close it (click the close wizard button). Otherwise skip this step.
# Click Cancel when the New Compilation window opens. Once this cancels you should be at the main Nero Burning Window.
# From the pull down menu at the top of the Window, choose File > then select Burn Image. This will open a file-browsing box.
# Choose locate your ISO file (after navigating to the location you downloaded it to) then click the Open button.
# Now the Write CD window will open. Click the Write button.
# Once the CD has completed writing you can discard the log file, close Nero, and reboot from the CD. Be sure you BIOS is set to boot from CD, otherwise you will just boot as normal.


Peace V:cool:

[cuiq]

How did you burn the iso?

Here's how it should go:

# Open your Nero Burning ROM software.
# If the Nero Wizard opens by default then close it (click the close wizard button). Otherwise skip this step.
# Click Cancel when the New Compilation window opens. Once this cancels you should be at the main Nero Burning Window.
# From the pull down menu at the top of the Window, choose File > then select Burn Image. This will open a file-browsing box.
# Locate the ISO file (after navigating to the location you downloaded it to) then click the Open button.
# Now the Write CD window will open. Click the Write button.
# Once the CD has completed writing you can discard the log file, close Nero, and reboot from the CD. Be sure you BIOS is set to boot from CD, otherwise you will just boot as normal.


Peace V:cool:

[Headfuzz]

Sounds like you have a duff ISO image. Boot into Hoary and from a command line, change to the directory containing the downloaded ISO image, then type md5sum name_of_your_iso_image.iso and check to see whether it matches the md5 shown for Hoary on the Ubuntu ftp site. Chances are they won't match, in which case you'll have to download the ISO again.

As for the difference between Hoary and Breezy, they're different version numbers. Hoary is Ubuntu 5.04 and Breezy is 5.10.

For more detailed info between the versions (program version numbers, kernel versions etc) look upo Ubuntu on http://www.distrowatch.org

[dkeav]

dont try doing anything special with nero when your burn the iso, just burn it

use the classic burning rom program, close out of the initial new session screen, then up on the menu bar find the "burn image" option within those menus, click on it and point it to your iso file, then just click burn

[je_fro]

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html

[Todd50]

Success Update!!!...

I read up on the "How To's" posted by Je_Fro and went back to my XP box for another try. As best I can remember (I initially started this project under a 'zero sleep' cloud), I did most everything correctly on the first try except this time I dialed down the write speed on the burner from the default 56x to the lowest setting, 8x and viola!! Not sure what else I did differently but the support link helped.

I'm in the middle of the Breezy install as I type. Thanks for the support everyone.

[knute]

I'm in the middle of the Breezy install as I type.

:cool: Gotta WUV operating systems that you can actually use BEFORE it's completely installed! :cool:

Let's see windblows do that! :eek:

:D