Where can i fid and download a linux distro in iso to burn into a auto-boot cd i´m looking for slake or red hat .
i have download 645 m iso cd but it´s not auto-boot cd and i cant make the install .

OK, I made this mistake too. You have to tell your CD-burning software to make a cd from image(.iso file). SO after you burn the CD, you shouldn't have a .iso file on the CD but a CD full of directories and files. Then you need to tell your BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM, change the boot order until CD-ROM is the first. If your BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting then you need to make a bootdisk. To make a bootdisk there is a program on the RedHat CD1 called rawrite in the dosutils directory. Use the boot.img file in the images directory. So use rawrite to write boot.img to a floppy and then you have a nice Linux bootdisk.


Hope that helped!

only one question i have buyed mandrake 8.1 and it´s starts running after i put it on cd-rom drive with pc working on windows it opens the instalation window , i have burned several linux distro but they only boot the way you told me why dont they do like mandrake?

On Mandrake cd there is a special program to start in Windows. Other distros don't have anything similar. That's why.

Can you tell the name of the file that makes that apend?
Thanks .

It's this autorun.exe or something with a similar name in cd main directory. All *.exe files there are Windows executables, so it's rather easy to find them

thanks , can i put on the cd or it has to be a particular auto.exe for each distribution cd?