i cant seem to be able to boot linux of a disk.....very strange

[savagenator]

hi, well i wanted to take the plunge to linux, but strangly when i put the .iso file in the disk, and i boot the comptuer, it doesnt boot form the CD even when in the BIOS i select the CD to be booted. Whats wrong?

PS: this is a Dell....

 

[geese]

did you copy the iso to the disk or did you burn the iso as a CD image ?

 

[Veurruckte]

You need to burn the ISO, not just copy it (As geese said). There's many free ISO burners out there, just google.

The other problem could be you burnt the ISO on too fast of a speed. Try burning it at around 12x.

 

[Motoxrdude]

I use DeepBurner pro and it is very nice for iso burinings because of the simplicity.

 

[savagenator]

i used nero7 and it says "writing to CD image" when burning the disk

also, it burns at 10x max.

 

[duane534]

Writing TO a CD image creates an ISO, to the same end as copying an ISO to the disk. If you look at the disk in Explorer, and it lists files and folders, you've done it right.