Re: Re: [OS:N:] newbie

[Kent Walker <walkerk uchastings edu>]

Will,

It doesn't look like you got an answer to the CD burning issue yet.  If you 
downloaded an "iso" image, you don't use the usual method of burning files 
to a CD.  Instead, go to the toolbar under "File" and select "Record CD 
from CD Image".  Select a file type of "ISO image file" and navigate to the 
file you downloaded.  The ISO image is a bit-for-bit copy of the CD 
image.  If it's still not booting from the CD, you may need to change the 
boot device selection sequence in the BIOS; it may be set to boot from the 
hard drive first.

As regards setting up your first Linux machine:  As you have some spare 
computers, I strongly recommend using one as a dedicated Linux 
machine.  Making a dual-boot machine having both Linux and Windows can 
create problems and you probably don't need that right now.  Once your set 
of CDs is ready, boot from the first one and, when you arrive at the screen 
for formatting the hard drive, select the option which removes all volumes 
and data from the drive.

Good luck!

At 07:09 AM 5/28/2004, Will Hatch wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Patrick.  Playing with Linux in some capacity is 
> probably a good idea.  I actually have a few spare computers that I could 
> load Linux onto, for demo purposes.  But, I have tried to download a 
> couple different systems and then burn them to cd, but I'm not doing 
> something right because when I put the cd in and try to reboot it does not 
> recognize the cd.  I'm not sure what is being done wrong.  I have roxy 
> easy cd creator but i'm not sure its being burned right.  - Will
> >
> <snip>

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