making a boot cd

[putnam120]

I am having trouble creating a boot cd for ubunto 8.04
I download the file on the ubuntu download page and then unzip the .rar file. I then burn the entire folder to a cd and then restart my computer. however, my computer refuses to even acknowledge that there is a cd in the cd drive and just boots from the hard drive into Vista.
Am I doing something wrong? I ask since I made a boot cd for ubuntu 7.10 for my old computer and everything worked perfectly fine.

[UbuntuNerd]

did you burned it as an iso image

[Dylock]

Also you need to make sure you are booting from your CDROM before your harddrive. You can do this in your BIOS.

[YaroMan86]

I am having trouble creating a boot cd for ubunto 8.04
I download the file on the ubuntu download page and then unzip the .rar file. I then burn the entire folder to a cd and then restart my computer. however, my computer refuses to even acknowledge that there is a cd in the cd drive and just boots from the hard drive into Vista.
Am I doing something wrong? I ask since I made a boot cd for ubuntu 7.10 for my old computer and everything worked perfectly fine.

Whoa whoa whoa! You extracted the ISO?

This is why I don't like WinRAR. ISOs should never be treated as archives. Try loading the ISO into a CD burning program and try again.

[UbuntuNerd]

download magic iso and use the evaluation version to burn the image it should work good i used it.

[manishtech]

If you are on windows you can use Nero for burning it. Just find "Burn Image to Disk" option, select this ISO and start burning.
Then make sure that CD-ROM is above HDD in BIOS boot order

Useful software in Linux to burn CD's
* Brasero
* GNOME CD/DVD Burner (bundled by default in ubuntu)
* K3B (best till so far,even kicks *** of Nero )