Other Help Topics :: newbie question. . .

ok...let me see if i can explain this better....

There are multiple ways a CD can be burned, and each has its own purpose.

The standard way to burn a data disk is to add you files to a directory structure within the CD and burn it.

This method will fail in making a bootable CD from an ISO. The ISO is an image of an entire disk, including a boot sector if needed. Your burning software has to convert this image into a CD, not burn the ISO file itself onto the disk. Burning the ISO in the same way as you'd burn a data cd will result in a CD which contains just an ISO file on it...basically just a backup of the ISO....fairly useless. This is why there is a whole separate method to burn these images. Generally the software would have a unique menu item for burning images....something like "burn disk image". In this case you should be able to browse for the image file and burn. If you see the ISO file appear in a window in which you can add other files, it's probably not going to work. I don't know if i can explain this any better without getting more redundant.

There's a chance that your software just won't burn ISOs. In this case there are other tools available, such as
http://dpaehl.dd6338.kasserver.com/cdr/isoburn.php

yeah. . .ok. . .here goes

w00t! I figured it out, and booted my computer into DSL

:) The desktop (icons, background, etc.) didn't show up

and I didn't have my dsl internet connection (not to be confused with the os). But I'll try and figure out what's wrong with that.

Thanks to everyone for helping me out. . .totally my fault -- I had no idea what I was doing. But thanks for helping anyway

Looking forward to being able to connect to the web through linux :P

On the internet. .. I'm connected through a wireless Linksys bridge to a network -- is there a problem with that? The embedded DSL connected immediately but using the boot cd it didn't.

original here.