Hello,
I'm trying to use the Tails distro for the first time. It's a distro that tries to preserve anonymity for the user.
I placed the Tails 1.4 DVD disc that I burned into the optical drive in my laptop and booted into it. Then I tried to start the Tor browser and an error message comes up in the middle of the browser window saying "The proxy server is refusing connections."
Then I hovered my pointer over the icon in the system tray that looks like two PC monitors and keyboards overlapping eachother. There is a message that comes up that says "No network connection". So this is the network connection icon.
When I right click on this icon it gives a drop-down menu of three items to select: "wired network" (in black letters), "disconnected" (in gray letters), and "VPN connections" (in black letters with an arrow pointing to the right).
When I hover my pointer over the "VPN connections" selection it brings down yet another drop-down menu giving the following options to select: "configure VPN" (in black letters) and "Disconnect VPN" (in gray letters).
The black letters mean that that is something that I can currently select and the gray letters mean that that is something that I can't select currently.

I'm just trying to figure out how to establish a network connection and could use some help as I have no idea because I've never used this distro before.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Have you read their info on how to use TAILS, it would seem not.

https://tails.boum.org/getting_started/index.en.html
https://tails.boum.org/doc/index.en.html