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will not boot from ubuntu dvd

Asked by Heath Duncan

I bought The Official Ubuntu Book with DVD
disc did not auto run
disc will not load, does nothing not even spin
boot order is set to cd first
PC is working HD has no operating system
other cd's will run on re boot ( windows 98 ,95 XP)
any of my restore cd run (i get a boot from list)
some of them will run just by droping them in the tray
Help
I've searched the text and your site for answers.
Now I humbly ask for help

Heath

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Heath Duncan (heathduncan) said : 		#1

I am now loading Win 98
When done I'll try the Ubuntu dvd again
My goal is to install to a fresh HD
I'm going to keep trying

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Joel Garske (joel-garske) said : 		#2

Heya! :)

If you really are unable to boot from the DVD and you know, that it should be at least readable, try the Smart Boot Manager. Its aware of your CD-Drive and can enable you to boot from strange media like CD-ROM or DVD (even on old computers).

More information may be found here:

   http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html

Download may be here:

   http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html

The only requirements are: x86 machine (what i guess from you, bugging around with win98) and a floppy drive (which is, i know, not that common these days).
You may even geht the SBM boot itself from CD and then load the Ubuntu DVD by SBM if your BIOS misses to boot it.

Have a nice day and dont let your computer get you down. :)

Greetings,
               Joel Garske

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Joel Garske (joel-garske) said : 		#3

well ... i forgot...

if you already have an installed win98, theres also a SBM DOS executeable.

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Heath Duncan (heathduncan) said : 		#4

Thanks for the tip.
It has taken me 2 days to figure out what you wanted me to do
that web page had a million things to choose from
I'm a new guy to this
I'm still trying though
Heath

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Heath Duncan (heathduncan) said : 		#5

This cd will not boot from 3 different PC's I tried
It will fire up if the PC is already running
I think I tried the SBM DOS I copied it to a flopy put the flopy and cd in and booted
I got a prompt "remove disc press any key to restart

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Joel Garske (joel-garske) said : 		#6

First of all, sorry for my undetailed information...

in a few hours, if i got some sleep, I will try to find a way to make you able to boot from that DVD... from your note i read, that you have a floppy drive as well as a working floppy handy. Which platform ist currently installed on your PC? Win98? Some Linux Distribution? If you do not answer in time, i'll just prepare both ways :).

Sorry again *bow*.

          Greetings, Joel

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Heath Duncan (heathduncan) said : 		#7

I have 3 running desk tops with floopy's and cd's
2 running xp
1 I just installed win 98

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Heath Duncan (heathduncan) said : 		#8

I really appreciate your help thank you.
I would really like to partition the drive and load the linux and xp on all my pc's
I can read about partitions and follow instructions ok but the book has no instructions on how to get the darn disc to load
the book says drop the disc in the tray boot up and follow the steps

thank you very much
Heath

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Best Heath Duncan (heathduncan) said : 		#9

Teddy Toosevelt said "Do the best you can, with what you have, where you are."
I tried that (trying to load from the disc I bought) and got no where.
So I decided to try my mantra "When all else fails start at step 1."

1 I downloaded the same version 6.06.
2 Saved the file.
3 Burned it to a disc using DVDDecripter.
4 Booted using my new disc.

A few clicks. No problems. Ubuntu is sweet!!!!

Heath

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Joel Garske (joel-garske) said : 		#10

Well... thats nice :)

sorry for not being that helpful.

Joel

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Heath Duncan (heathduncan) said : 		#11

Joel
Just knowing someone was out there thinking about me was enough positive
energy to encourage me to keep going forward. Really. Thank you.
Heath

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Heath Duncan (heathduncan) said : 		#12

Joel
If I may, I have a question.
On my daughters pc I can boot in either ubuntu or windows 98
On my pc I can not boot in windows something got messed up when ubuntu
loaded.
I have poked around (in ubuntu) and I can see the files but can't open
them.
Do you know how to get them from the other side and copy them to my
folder in ubuntu?
Heath