I am having problems running a Linux live CD?

Question

The next step to running Linux off a live CD?

OK so i downloaded the file and i burned it to disc. i restarted the computer but Vista loaded up. The os came from here: http://www.opensuse.org/

And i got the ose url from this http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index....

what have i yet to do to get it to work btw the disc is 700MB Memorex CD-R

i transfered the file striaght from the desktop to the disc the file name is

openSUSE-11.0-KDE4-LiveCD-i386-iso

and it says file folder

and in that its

openSUSE-11.0-KDE4-LiveCD-i386

and that is an ISO file

Answer 1

Did you just burn the file to the disc?  ISO files are disc images and need to be burned as such.  You don't add them like you would with normal files.  Your CD writing software (Nero, etc.) should have the option to burn an image to a disc.  Search for that in the help file and you should get detailed instructions for the application you are using.

Answer 2

You need to create a bootable CD, just burning the ISO to a disc is not sufficient. Here is a tutorial on how to create a bootable CD http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-m...

LUg.

Answer 3

You need to set your computer to boot from the CD instead of the hard drive. This setting is usually in your BIOS.

Answer 4

First, you need to burn the ISO as the disk image, rather than as a file.  The ISO is like a recording of what the CD should look like.

When restarting your computer, during the first screens before an OS loads, there will be a list of devices being discovered.  At that point, somewhere on the screen it should tell you that you can edit the BIOS or configure the computer, or similar phrasing, if you press a certain key.  This is often Esc or F1.

When you strike that key you will have many options.  Exactly what it looks like will depend upon your motherboard, but somewhere it will list boot devices.

Set the first boot device to your CD drive.

Set your second boot device to your hard drive.

Save and exit.

Your computer will restart and load the live CD.

If you have a floppy drive you might want to use that as the first boot device, CD as second and HD as third.  That's the way we used to do it in the old days.