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shallowthought
September 2nd, 2010, 11:16 PM
I downloaded three versions of ubuntu: 10.04 32bit, 10.04.1 32bit, and 10.04.1 64 bit,
and successfully (I think) burned them to disk.

I tried to boot from disk each of them.
Only the 10.04 32 bit worked.
For both 10.04.1 versions (32bit and 64bit) my machine insists on booting Windows
(even though I held down the F12 key and highlighted the appropriate drive)

Is this a bug in 10.0.1 ?
Or just a nasty Windows 7?

Using a brand new: Dell xps 9100 running Windows 7, with intel i7 960,
9gb ram, and ATI Radeon HD 5770.

Would like to get rid of Windows 7 (or put it in a small partitiion).

Since this computer is 64bit it seems I should be using the 64 bit version of Ubuntu.
But can't get it to boot.

Help!

davidmohammed
September 4th, 2010, 12:03 AM
sounds like you have burning issues. Make sure you have burned the CD at the lowest speed possible. Make sure stuff like Antivirus is not running - i.e. anything that could possibly interrupt a successful burn.