Fwd: Help for a Newbie

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Kirk wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
> 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.

Yea, but this is RH-7.2, so none of that functionality exists.

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