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I am Stuck at R: at install with the CD in the machine

Asked by DrewMusk

I have a new copy of Ubuntu i just downloaded of the net.I put it on my flash drive, then burned it to a CD at a rather slow speed like I have read. I have an empty hard drive in my computer. and want to put Ubuntu on it.

I a have Windows 98SE boot disk and it recognizes the CD drive as R: ( R: drive ) when i type in DIR i get the directory. I reads everything What do I put in now?

If if type in WUBI.exe like on the directory it says " This Program can not be run in DOS Mode"
same with every other program I type in.

I want to use Ubuntu but the install help is not helpful. Should the cd not just load because i have the CD listed as the primary boot device. i have tried this on two other machines and different hard drives. this si the farthest i have gotten. and at least three burns of CD's and different downloads.

This is attempt number 5 so far. its getting old.

Thank you Drew

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Simone Cianfriglia (crimer) said : 		#1

You can't run wubi in windows 98, it requires windows nt (2000, xp, vista and so on..).
To start the setup process or the live distro you have to reboot your pc with cd inside and cd-reader must be the first boot device; another thing, bios have to support direct cd booting.

My pc has two dvd drives, master and slave on the same pata channel, I had to set the drive I use as primary cd device to get the bootloader works.

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DrewMusk (drewoid1) said : 		#2

this is a Dell Dimension 500 mhz pentium III. 756 of Ram. If I don't put a boot disk in it says
" NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" It seems I need the boot disk to recognize the CD I believe since its an older machine. The 98SE boot disk at least gets me an >a: prompt.

So I can not load from a CD which sucks. should I be looking for a Linux floppy boot disk?

 I have copies of Vista and XP on CD but no key or what ever it is they make you pay for. and I have a newer machine that has Vista and Fedora 9 on it. ( but there are problems with that install, can not run and programs with WINE, but thats a different topic)
I loaded Fedora9 from a disk but that is a new motherboard and processor. With serial hard drive support.

 I want a clean intsall with only Linux Ubuntu.

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Simone Cianfriglia (crimer) said : 		#3

You have to try to follow this guide:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SmartBootManager

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