ISO image - help!

[desperance]

Our Google, who art full of fu -

I want to try a Linux live disk in the laptop, see if it works.

I can download OpenSuse 10.3 - which is what I'm used to - but it comes as an ISO image, and I don't know what to do with it. Can I just burn that onto a CD and will it work as is, or do I have to unpack it somehow...?

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[quietspaces.livejournal.com]

Double click on the ISO image and burn it direct onto the CD. (Don't copy it, says my husband, but burn it.)

[carandol.livejournal.com]

That's right! You'll need an option with a name like "Burn ISO image" or similar (don't know quite what as I don't know your software). If you just copy it, you'll end up with a data cd with the file on it, when what you want the ISO to do is *become* the disk, if you see what I mean!

It's usually recommended to burn ISOs at a fairly slow speed, because if you do them too fast, you can sometimes lose data, and they look like they're done but then won't install.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Ken. I'll tackle this, soon as I lay in some regular CDs (the Sony handbook is full of warnings not to use rewritables to make rescue disks, and I'm guessing this is on a par with the slow-speed recommendation, for fear of data loss?).

[carandol.livejournal.com]

I guess so. Also, I suppose it would be possible, with a re-writable rescue disk, to click the wrong button and accidentally rescue the rescue disk. Which would be bad!