I have a PowerMac G4 400mhz 768 mb RAM with CD drive.

I downloaded ubuntu edgy via bittorent and burned it to a cd-r. However, on boot, I put it in the disk and hold c, but nothing happens. The drive lights up and it doesn't boot in OSX, but no ubuntu either. It just stalls until I reboot and take out the cd.

How can I get it to work?

BTW: I burned the cd image in DiskUtility . I didn't extract it or anything like that. I burned the image like an image, not like a file.

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does the CD work in another box?

I don't have another one to try it on!

can you read the disk from the file browser?

If so how many files do you see? One that ends in .iso or many with folders?

I see many folders when I browse the disk.

If this is the wrong result, how do I correctly burn it in OSX?

I figured out the problem.

My external CD-Drive has CD-RW support, but not my internal drive.

On boot, when I told my computer to boot from a disk, it didnt recognize the external one, and kept searching the embedded drive for a cd, but it couldnt read the cd, so it just hung.

I'll wait untill I get a new mac laptop.

or burn it to a CD-R

You should always burn ISO's to DVDR/CDR anyways. Thats been my experience.

You should be able to get a 5 pack of CDR's for pretty cheap, use them to burn your OS's.

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Oh, wait you can use CD-Rs?

Then how does it save your files onto it?

I had the same problem. Here is what I did. Since I had Partition Magic 8 on another compute, I re-formmated it to Linux Ext2. Installed and tried again. It worked, was able to boot from CD and install on to the HDD.

Yes, always use CDR/DVDR... There's been many threads on this here at LQ. Also, burn at the slowest possible speed.

How do you save your files to what?.... The CD? Just burn the ISO image there, and it will boot when you restart your PC(provided you have your Optical drive set up as the first boot device).

Or do you mean save files you're working with under Ubuntu? Well, you can use a USB thumbdrive to save files. The idea is to just test the OS out by trying the Live version, the if you like it, install it. Once you start the install process, it doesn't really matter if its a CDR, etc., its just CDR's tend to work better.