trying to install Linux

[Don Levey]

fedora-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
> Thanks for the comments. I actually downloaded the images to my hard
> drive then burned iso images with Roxio. The CD has the iso image and
> nothing else. It looks the same as the downloaded iso image. I gather
> this is wrong and I should create a CD from the image is that
> correct?? I would expect to see all the files on the CD then correct??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mikko /unix [mailto:mikko at londi.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:43 AM
> To: fedora-list /unix
> Subject: Re: trying to install Linux
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 20:15, Donald_Sass at gov.nt.ca wrote:
>> Hi.......I am new to Linux (I know very little) and I am trying to
>> install it to see how it works. Things are not going smoothly and I
>> need some assistance. I downloaded the 3 CD iso images and did an
>> md5sum on each and they check okay.  However the CD #1 does not boot.
>

IIRC, in Roxio, you would start with an empty CD layout.  From the File
menu, select something which approximates "Burn from CD Image".  This will
default to a non-ISO format, but the File Type dropdown in the dialog should
have ISO.  Then just navigate to your ISO file.

 -Don