Re: Newbie help request

Nick wrote:
I am new to Linux, found a helpful guy who suggested I start with downloading and burning to disc
a copy of pclinuxos-p92.iso (done), booting from the CD and running from the CD (configured to do that) but my system doesn't seem to recognise the file and does nothing.

When you burn the CD, do not just burn the file onto it like a normal data CD. You need to find the option in your CD burning software to "burn image file" or "burn ISO" - then you just point it at the .iso file and it will make you a nice bootable CD with all the files on it contained within the image. (You must have some seperate CD burning software - the built in Windows XP CD burning facilities won't do it.)

A quick google search found the following site, which has instructions for burning ISO images in just about every piece of software imaginable:

http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm
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