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Have downloaded Mint 17 32bit twice. Once onto dvd and next to Movie Maker. Unable to open either as Windows does not recognise this type of file. I would like to play the dvd to see what 'mint' is like before I make the decision to install it.
Hope you can help
Thank you all for your offers of help, however I have now bought the distro.
Last edited by Nuffield; 07-03-2014 at 10:46 AM.
Reason: Bought the distro.
Have a look at this guide. It will explain how to burn your ISO to a DVD and how to install Mint. You don't open the file with Windows; you boot up your system with the DVD. Anyway, have a look at the guide and see if things are clearer.
jdk
A safe way is to install a free virtual machine. It would then allow you to run linux and windows at the same time. You'd use that iso image file as a source to boot up the vm's client.
Thanks to all who offered their help with my problem, however, I have ordered the Linux mint dvd from sourceforge as this seems to be the easiest way.
Regards
JTH
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Open ISO file in Windows
