Cary, There is most certainly a CD version for you to download. I run Ubuntu on all of my systems and have never used anything but CDs burnt from ISOs available on the main Ubuntu site. - Erich On Feb 18, 2008 1:28 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen < kristian.hermansen@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 18, 2008 12:02 PM, cary mabe 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "A man is defined by the questions that he asks; and the way he goes about finding the answers to those questions is the way he goes through life."