How do I download Linux onto a CD?

[pitupepito2000]

Hi,

I am new to computers, and I am thinking about trying Red Hat. I have a cd-rw, and I want to burn Red Hat into a cd to install later. My question is how do I go about this. Do I download the three installation disk first to my hard drive and then burn them into a cd or should I save it directly into the cd from the web? I just want to get this straight since its going to take me a long time to download it.

Thanks for the input!

 

[BlueWeasel]

Do I download the three installation disk first to my hard drive and then burn them into a cd?

Yes. You typically see distros (short for distributions-Redhat, Mandrake, etc.) that are downloaded as .ISO files. Once D/L'ed, you can use pretty much any CD Burning software (Nero, EasyCD, CDRwin, etc.) to burn and create the installation CDs.

Hope this helps...

 

[Nothinman]

Don't just burn the ISO file to the disc though, that won't work. You have to burn it as an image, for instance Nero has File->Burn from Image.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Doh!!...thanks Nothinman....I forgot to mention that

 

[pitupepito2000]

Thanks for the quick input!