installing from ISO file

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 18, 2008 12:02 PM, cary mabe <cary.mabe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again!  It has been a while since I posted, mostly time spent
> "playing" with my comp and learning new things by the minute.  I have a
> question that I hope someone here can answer.  I have been trying umpteen
> different distros and also dual and triple-boot setups on my comp and I've
> run across a flavor of ubuntu that I can only install from DVD. . . . and
> DVD readers I have none.  BUT I do have the ISO file downloaded to install
> to DVD.  Here's the question. . . can I install the the new OS directly from
> the ISO file on my hard drive?  and if so could someone give me a short
> HOWTO or mebbe point me to a link that will explain it?  Many thanks in
> advance, you guys and girls are slowly aiding me in my quest to become the
> ubergeek.

I think the easiest route for you here is just to download the Ubuntu
Desktop CD version...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
--
"It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an
intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing
gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and
difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or
failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878