Downloaded to cd but cd won't boot

[Cam72]

I just dowloaded the latest version of Ubutu and it's curently on a cd-r but it will NOT boot. Before coming here i looked up how to change boot order and i did but it still won't work. If anyone could help this Newbie new user i'd be greatly apreciative.

[insane_alien]

did you write it to disk as data or as a CD image?

[niyonk]

hi, :)

Do you have any other bootable CD you can test with?
Or how exactly did you burn the CD and what program did you use?

[Cam72]

As a Image

[Cam72]

I used Sonic Record now but i'm running windows right now so i dont have another bootable cd

[Cam72]

any advice?

[niyonk]

ok,
When you boot your pc, do you hear a noise as if it is trying to check if the CD is bootable.
And also do you see a black screen for few seconds and a blinking cursor while this is happening.

(I am assuming you selected something like...'Burn an ISO Image')

or check if the image you downloaded is not corrupted using this link (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM)

[Cam72]

what you describe is exactly what happens but then it cancels and loads windows

[Cam72]

i did burn an iso image - is that the wrong way?

[Cam72]

by the way, i dowloaded and compared hashes and stuff but there the same

[Cam72]

useing that link

[niyonk]

What way to you mean exactly...because there is burning an iso to cd and there is burning an iso file to CD

ok, not to confuse you more you might want to look at this (http://www.uab.edu/it/question-answer/other/iso_cd.php) the last part...:)

[Too Late]

Can you read the contents of that disc in Windows?

[Cam72]

no it just opens sonic record now

[gjoellee]

Sometimes if you have two floppy disks, you have to use the one you normally don't use, like for me Ubuntu CD's doesn't even get detected in the normal floppy, so I have to use the one that is actually made for burning CD's

[Cam72]

thats wht i did, burn iso to cd but i used sonic instead of that other thin on the link

[Cam72]

floppy disk? but anyways it dose reconize that ubuntu is on the cd in windows it just wont ope it of course

[Too Late]

Go to My Computer and right-click that CD and select properties. Tell us what do you see? How much used space, how much files etc.

[Cam72]

ok hold on

[SkonesMickLoud]

What speed did you burn the CD at?

Typically, you want to burn .iso files at 4x or less.

[Cam72]

it says there's no free space wich is odd because i know there is, it says the file system is CDFS, and it says the size of Ubuntu is 694mb. The reason it says no free space is because it's a cd-r not cd-rw actually

[Cam72]

well i dont know but it took about 30 min

[Too Late]

What speed did you burn the CD at?

Typically, you want to burn .iso files at 4x or less.
IMO, that's an urban legend. I always burn my discs at max speed and I've never had problems with them. In fact, another urban legend says that burning discs at too slow speed could cause them to burn "away" (I mean, the rays go through the disc).

[Cam72]

ya thats what i thought, just urban legends, but burn through the disk thats rediculous

[Cam72]

anything?

[Too Late]

it says there's no free space wich is odd because i know there is, it says the file system is CDFS, and it says the size of Ubuntu is 694mb. The reason it says no free space is because it's a cd-r not cd-rw actually
Well, that indicates that you've done everything right. It could be a hardware issue. I have one very old CD drive which can't boot anymore.

edit: So what will you see when you double-click that disc?

[Cam72]

so what should i do to fix the hardware or what ever else?

[Cam72]

didnt read end part: but it opens sonic record now and also just to let you know i burn and rip d=cds all the time and i juts had my cd drive replaced about 6 months ago when my motherboard crashed

[Cam72]

i`mean when i click on the drive it brings me to the iso image file wich is ubuntu

[Cam72]

when i click iso it opens sonic now

[Too Late]

OK, you shouldn't see any iso files in your disc. So you have NOT burned it correctly. You have burned that iso file as data. You should burn that as an image. If you can't do that with your current program, please try another burning program.

[unca.paka]

Looks like it just burned the .iso to the disc, and didnt make it bootable. If Sonic wont do it, just grab the demo of MagicISO, pretty easy to use.

[Cam72]

thank you both, i'm going to try magiciso and hopefully it will work!


I'll make this ques resolved if it dose keep an eye out

[Cam72]

Unca, how to i use magiciso to make it bootable? i'm re-downloading ubuntu right now

[Too Late]

No need to re-download. You could have used that same iso file that you accidentally burned to that disc (as data).

[Cam72]

where would it be on my comp? i looked but couldnt find it

[Too Late]

It's on that disc you already burned.

[Cam72]

yes but how do i re burn that

[Cam72]

and on the cd its a a data file isnt it? so it wont burn it as iso

[Too Late]

Of course you can't burn a file from disc to another disc, unless you have multiple optical drives. So just copy that iso file from your (already burned) disc to your hard drive. Then burn that iso image (which is a data file) to a disc, and be sure to burn that file as an image, not as data.

[Cam72]

ok but it will be an image file on cd when i burn it from my hard drive as long as i'm useing magiciso?

[niyonk]

that's what i've been trying to tell you my friend...:)

You burned the ISO file itself..not Burned the ISO to the CD.

It doesn't matter what program you use as long as you burn the ISO to cd not the file lol
Actually you might want to look at the link I posted earlier on...on the last part.

Good Luck! ;)