really easy linux question (methinks)

[scott_d]

this is prolly a stupid question, and i am prolly missing it somewhre, but im too cheap to buy linux, so i downloaded red hat 8.0. I want to use linux just to see what its like and expand my knowladge of it. I have a big book on it, but what i need to know is about burning the .iso's onto a cd. Do i just burn them onto cd's and then stick one in and reboot or what? i've looked around and cant really find anything on it. TIA

[homey]

hi,

Once you have made the cdroms, the first one is bootable. Make sure that you check the md5 sums before you burn the iso image. Also, there is a proceedure for making the cd, you don't just drag the iso image to the cdrom.

Here is a site which has some info on burning iso images to cd......

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html

[scott_d]

thanks....wasnt quite sure what to do to burn the .iso to disk

[fatboyjim]

Yeah the biggest mistake is to actually burn the ISO to the CD and not letting the burning program do it for you

ie. If you do it right you get a CD full of data
If you do it wrong you get a CD with an .ISO file on it :)

Jim

[Zerooverdrive]

Use Nero! to burn your iso images! it works gr8 with ISO!

[scott_d]

lol, i did waht fatboyjim said the first time....then i was like, uhh....wait a sec. lol ttahnks guys

[fatboyjim]

Told you so!

:D

Jim


PS. I did that the first time too :)

[jglen490]

Use Nero! to burn your iso images! it works gr8 with ISO!
Yeah, so do ALL the good, commercial CD writing software. EZCD Creator works just as well as does cdrecord under Linux.

[crow]

I use B's Recorder Gold that came with my Sony burner.....
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Len

[v1r4L fr3nzy]

you could always keep the isos on your comp and use DAEMON tools as phantom drive to just load them.