[GRLUG] newbie help

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Cameron wrote:
> Rick,
> I put the disk into the computer.  I opened "my computer" in Windows XP.
> The CD Rom drive showed as having Ubuntu in it. 

Please forgive if this is insultingly obvious, but, for the record, you
are not at this point seeing a single big file on the CD, with the
extension .iso. Right?

> I opened the disk with
> explorer.  I believe that all the files that should be on the installation
> disk were listed on the CD.  So, to make a short story long, yes the current
> OS recognizes the disk.  It does seem to be slow, however.  Thanks for
> replying.  Any wisdom?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cam Milkins
> National Real Estate Advisor
> Sperry Van Ness/Silveri Company
> cameron.milkins at svn.com
> cmilkins at tds.net
> (616) 780-5634