[jambutty]

Thanks for that entwisi – you may be correct in your assumption. I use Paragon for my OS partition image so I am more or less familiar with the concept of images.

The file/s in question being:
ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso 715,172 KB ISO File
ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso 715,130 KB ISO File

When burning I had the option of:
Disc Images (*.iso, *.cue) which I selected, or
Raw Images (*.bin, *raw) or
All Files (*.*)

I was led to believe from the web site that the image file would ‘unpack’ (if that’s the right expression) itself whilst burning.

To answer your question Cyfr – yes I did. I followed the instructions on the web site and that’s what they were.

I have also used Infra Recorder to burn some normal files onto a CD and they went on OK so my CD drive is OK and so is IR. I even went as far as to use a re-write able CD to write normal stuff to, re formatted it and then tried the .iso file. But that only proved that the CD was OK because I did not end up with a bootable CD.

There was something on the web site about downloading some software that verifies the checksum of the download so I’m going to go down that road because it is always possible that the .iso files that I downloaded got corrupted somehow or something was missed off. It’s a long shot because the download does it’s own verification after download and everything seemed to go OK.

At the end of all this I will have a good selection of coasters or round emergency shaving mirrors or bird scarers for a freshly seeded lawn. Going cheap! Er! Actually it is the birds that go cheep so the CD's will be free.