Okay so I wish to install Ubuntu on my machine. I cleaned off my hard drive from my previous OS- Win Home. I downloaded Ubuntu, brunt it to a bootable CD using Nero worked great. I changed the settings in my BIOS to boot from CD and it does. Though when it does Caldera-dr-dos pops on the screen for a bit then it goes to this EMM386.exe screen with whole bunch of data on it. I have read about both and know what both are (kinda) and know that neither should really be affecting my system the way that they are. (Also if I try to install Windows Home again it works fine no Caldera-dr-dos screen- just press any key to boot from CD and such.) So I would like to know what is going on with my machine. Am I buring the boot disks wrong? (I hope this is true) Is something in the hardware wrong? Wrong BIOS setting? Thanks for any help cause I am stuck. ASUS K8V-X 1 gig RAM, Redaon 9250 AMD 64 3400 Athlon Thermaltak SVKing Case Zalman CNP Heatsink

How did you burn your downloaded ISO? You need to burn it as IMAGE rather then data otherwise it wont boot up. Check the Cd you burnt. it should have lots of files rather a single file.

Okay so I burned it as a boot/image disc. I know I did it right because it worked on my computer and friends computer. When I open the CD the only file on it is the ISO. So is there is something wrong with my machine. Something hardware? Thanks ASUS K8V-X 1 gig RAM, Redaon 9250 AMD 64 3400 Athlon Thermaltak SVKing Case Zalman CNP Heatsink

hi If all you can see on the cd is a single file with ext .ISO then you have not burnt the download correctly. What did you use to burn the CD? Nero, Roxio ...

When you burn it, there should be an option to burn a disc image. This is different than buring a bootable CD. A data CD can be burned as a bootable CD. So, you what you have burned is a minalist Windows-bootable CD, not unlike the startup floppy that used to come with Win 9x, that has a copy of the .ISO file on it. An ISO can only burned as whatever the ISO is. So, if the ISO is bootable (most OS CDs) then that's that. Can't be changed. Likewise, if the ISO is not bootable (for example, my backup copy of MS Office) then nothing can make it bootable. Unless of course you use an ISO editing program. But, that's irrelevant here. Point being: set the project up to burn a disc image. If you use a data project, even with a bootable option, you will only get a copy of the ISO file, rather than the ISO's contents.

Thanks I eventually figured that out. Thanks for your help thought. Later ASUS K8V-X 1 gig RAM, Redaon 9250 AMD 64 3400 Athlon Thermaltak SVKing Case Zalman CNP Heatsink