Booting and stuff

*Edit I typed in boot

I am trying to boot off of a 52x 700MB CD-R I got from walmart...... if I need something else then you should tell me a local store that would sell something better.

How are you burning the disk? Do you open the image with the burner or are you burning it as a data disk (Burning it as a data disk will result in a CD with one file which won't work, a correctly burned CD will have the files on the CD as a normal application CD).

well I get multiple files when I look at the CD... and I am using Power ISO... I am gonna check and get back to you

Nope that didn't help unfortunately.......

or wait would I want to make a CD Image file?

open the ISO with the burning app and it will burn it correctly

After you insert the CD you restart your PC, right?

yep then that didn't help :(

yeah? I know I have restarted a few times but usually I just turn the computer off and then on again

You want to write the .iso image to the CD, so that (a) you're not just copying the files inside the .iso to the CD, as then it wouldn't be bootable (please make sure you understand this distinction--if not, please post again to ask about it), and (b) after you have burned it, you will see multiple files on the CD.

Have you followed the interactive instructions in Step 2 at http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download?

Did you set the CD to be the first boot device?

@first post: I am doing that I didn't know that there was a second part the "ISO Recorder Power Toy" part that might have been the problem
@Second post: I know how in the BIOS menu, but I haven't checked on this computer. Can you still get into the BIOS menu if you can't see the F-buttons you can press? F2 right?

The key you press to enter the BIOS Setup or the boot menu differs from machine to machine. F2 is common. You can also try Escape, F1, F10, F12, and Delete.

ok so am I supposed to do bolth the thing with Infa recorder and ISO Recorder? cause I can't seem to find where ISO Recorder went when I installed it

let alone what the heck it is trying to ask me to do (Now I am putting in a DVD that I can't write to?)

oh it seems I don't need to use both sorry (unless somehow I do)

So, is that to say that you've figured out how to burn it? Or are you asking for help?

Refer to 'Standard Installation'.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation

I am not asking for help in fact that helped very much and I feel like frolicking in meadows!

One problem though.... I did get into the BIOS Settings after I put in a blank password, the BIOS Option setting is to make it view only! how do I change this?

cause it won't boot on this computer, I think it was made that way on purpose... Since it was a school computer in a networking environment

if it is a school computer, the school most likely installed software to prevent anything from being installed, in particular, viriii.

no I own it now....

first what do you mean viriii?

It might not have been the school anyway. If it helps, I am running and MPC one of their final lines too.

I mean does viriii stand for anything in particular?

I think Marcus meant "viruses".

"I am not asking for help in fact that helped very much and I feel like frolicking in meadows!"

Is that to say that you were able to boot from the Ubuntu install CD and install Ubuntu?

"One problem though.... I did get into the BIOS Settings after I put in a blank password, the BIOS Option setting is to make it view only! how do I change this?"

If you put in some other password (any other password, a one-character password or whatnot), does the same thing happen? (This question is to determine if the zero-character password is actually the BIOS password.)

Oh I meant that it worked on other computers now but not the one that I am having BIOS problems.

And I entered a few different passwords that are usually passwords the school uses and that would be a default passwords. I entered nothing and got in, in the security options there was a option to make it password protected and another option to put in a password (which said not entered)

Thank you for helping me get my Boot problem fixed if you want to help me with my BIOS problem go to this thread: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/153782