dual boot vista from ubuntu

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Have a look in your bios to see what it will boot from and pander to that, some old systems need a special boot floppy to then kick off the installer on the optical disk.

Is the drive a DVD drive?

Check BIOS settings and set the only boot option to the DVD drive. This will force the system to boot the disk. Did you MD5 test the ISO you burned before burning it? The image you used to burn the CD may have been corrupted whilst you downloaded it so MD5 can let you know the data is good

it wont let me set it only to boot fron the dvd and yes it a dvd drive the computers about 4 months old

--- On Wed, 11/18/09, actionparsnip <email address hidden> wrote:

From: actionparsnip <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #90637]: dual boot vista from ubuntu
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5:13 AM

Your question #90637 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/90637

    Status: Open => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
Have a look in your bios to see what it will boot from and pander to
that, some old systems need a special boot floppy to then kick off the
installer on the optical disk.

Is the drive a DVD drive?

Check BIOS settings and set the only boot option to the DVD drive. This
will force the system to boot the disk. Did you MD5 test the ISO you
burned before burning it? The image you used to burn the CD may have
been corrupted whilst you downloaded it so MD5 can let you know the data
is good

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How about this [1]

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

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On Friday 20 November 2009 11:03:11 pm cat96 wrote:
> Question #90637 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/90637
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> cat96 is still having a problem:
> it wont let me set it only to boot fron the dvd and yes it a dvd drive
> the computers about 4 months old
>
>
> --- On Wed, 11/18/09, actionparsnip <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> From: actionparsnip <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Question #90637]: dual boot vista from ubuntu
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5:13 AM
>
> Your question #90637 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/90637
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> Have a look in your bios to see what it will boot from and pander to
> that, some old systems need a special boot floppy to then kick off the
> installer on the optical disk.
>
> Is the drive a DVD drive?
>
> Check BIOS settings and set the only boot option to the DVD drive. This
> will force the system to boot the disk. Did you MD5 test the ISO you
> burned before burning it? The image you used to burn the CD may have
> been corrupted whilst you downloaded it so MD5 can let you know the data
> is good
>