Fwd: Help for a Newbie

[Ken Moffat]

Kirk wrote:
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> Since I have the CDs, I installed RH 7.2.  I know its old.  I want to 
> install Ubuntu to check it out.  I downloaded the ISO and copied it to 
> /root.  Would someone tell me what to do with it now, or provide a 
> site that gives me steps to install?
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You need to burn the iso image to cd, then boot with that cd.

My preferred method is something like:

cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/hdc speed=4  [name of iso].iso
I use a slow speed for better accuracy, and you should adjust the device 
to your writer.

In redhat, if you run gnome, open nautilus, and you can just right click 
on the iso file and choose 'Write to disk...' from the menu. I'm sure 
kde has a similar method.

You will need to have at least a partition to install to and a swap 
partition, so we need to know how your hard disk is partitioned.