Hi, I am new to Linux, i am a very well educated in Windows and Mac's OS and now I am trying to learn Linux. My one little problem is, i can't figure how to install it. All of the version i have tried to far are all live CD versions. However, my problem is i can't figure out what needs to be burned and what needs to no be burned.

Should i just burn the straight .iso file on disk and just boot from that? I know .iso files are archive files, so should i decompress it with winrar or just leave it alone as an iso. I appriciate your help as the tutorials i have been reading don't make this very clear.


Thanks,
Carmel The Linux Newb

http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm

This is how to burn an iso in Windows. ^

I prefer the ISO Recorder Power Toy method that is mentioned first.

I am sorry i think i didn't make myself very clear. Is there any way to burn linux onto a cd without this program? This program wouldn't install correctly for me. Isn't it possible i could just write a CD using windows burning tools? Or is there a different software that i could use?

most burning software will let you burn an image, if you want you can just get a demo of nero burning rom and select "burn image".

The page I linked to offers four different methods.

The Power toy, Nero, Roxio, and CDBurn.exe from the XP Support Tools.

I imagine you could try extracting the iso with WinRAR and burn the extracted files to a disk. But I wouldn't trust that method (because I haven't seen it done before).

You could look into CDburner XP Pro, you can download it for free.

if you have nero (most windows boxes have itr as it comes with the cd drive more often than not.)

just open that, start a new project form file.
then chhose the ISO file (you will have3 to change the file type to see it)

the rest shoudl be easy

I used active ISO burner which i found before i read these replys. It worked very well though. Thanks for your guys information. :-)