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3 Navigate to the location
of your Ubuntu .iso file.
4 Click the .iso file.
5 Click Add (or Open).
1 Launch the CD-burning
application that you plan
to use.
2 Choose to burn a CD
image.
Burn Ubuntu to a CD
A
fter you download the Ubuntu installation file
from the Internet, you need to write the file to CD
in order to generate a bootable CD. You will use
the resulting CD to install Ubuntu on your destination
computer. This is a fairly simple task, yet there are many
different ways to accomplish it. The instructions in this
section detail how to burn the CD on a machine running
any Microsoft Windows version from 95 up through
Vista. Note that you must have a CD drive capable of
recording CDs and at least one writable CD that is
compatible with that drive.
The Ubuntu installation file that you downloaded was
actually an archive of the data. When this data is stored
to a CD, the computer will use the data on the CD to
install the new operating system on the computer’s
internal hard disk drive. The installation files create a CD
that has all the right bootstrap data to support running
the computer from the CD during the installation process.
This process is called creating an .iso file, or burning a
disc image.
Although burning a disc image sounds simple, many
operating systems do not include this capability by
default. To perform this task, you will use a third-party
piece of software to burn the image file to the CD.
Although you may already have such software on your
machine, this software varies widely with manufacturer.
The one used in this section is Nero Express. It ships
with many systems built by PC vendors.
Burn Ubuntu
to a CD
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