kellrobinson

I have some 700 meg cd's. They are too small for the ubuntu image, which is about 1 gig, but I tried it anyway to see what happened. There was no error message this time. It just said the disc is too small, do you want to overwrite or truncate. I am going to return the dvd's I just bought and try something else. Is there some reason windows and imgburn would not recognize a brand new dvd?

Trying to install ubuntu on a thinkpad lenovo r61 running windows 7 using new Verbatim "Live Series" 4.7 GB dvd-r the ubuntu disc image file is Ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64 Which downloaded successfully. When I tried to burn the dvd using Windows, I got the error "The disk image didn't burn successfully because an error occurred. (error code 0x80004005)" Downloaded and installed imgburn, and got this error message: "Device not ready (no reference position found)" I looked in the faq and searched, but didn't find any information about this. I bought this computer used just the other day so I figure maybe it just doesn't burn discs, so I googled "does thinkpad lenovo r61 burn discs?" and at this link http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds002212 it says "You should install the CD/DVD/BD writing software which supports CD/DVD/BD creation function from the ISO image file to create the BIOS Update CD" I looked for this "writing software" for my computer but can't find it. This is as far as I have gotten. Can you help me with this?