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I have an external CD drive which connects to USB. I burned 11.10 Ubuntu image to CD-R. The disk correctly shows me install page when I autoload disk within Windows 7.

When I restart to attempt to boot from disk to install Ubuntu I get the following error for a split second before I continues to boot to Windows.

"isolinux.bin is missing or corrupt".

Clearly my computer knows that this is a Linux disk in the usb cd-drive...What went wrong?

edit: I reburned another disk, same error

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Perhaps... you should listen to your Computer when it tells you that the CD you made is corrupt. Use another one, A CD-RW would be better if not, then a USB stick. – Uri Herrera Feb 14 at 23:01
I agree, most likely a bad burn. You should also check the iso - help.ubuntu.com/community/VerifyIsoHowto – bodhi.zazen Feb 14 at 23:14
I reburned another disk, same error! Any ideas? – Rodrigo Salazar Feb 14 at 23:58
Download the ISO again and check the MD5 check sum – Uri Herrera Feb 15 at 1:52
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Like everyone said probably a bad burn..

i recommend using a tool called unetbootin which makes your pendrive bootable...

it is way faster then using a cd

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I don't have a pendrive with me that has enough space for the Image. I reburned the disk and the error is there still, any idea? – Rodrigo Salazar Feb 14 at 23:59
bad burn or a bad dvd/cd drive .... any 1 GB pendrive will do... or you can try an Ubuntu minimal iso thats only 26 mb u can use anoter program to burn – sarveshlad Feb 16 at 1:07
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