http://www.linuxiso.org is a pretty good source for all the info on what you do now.

The short answer is this.  An ISO is a CD "image" file.  Now you have to put it on a CD, but you don't just want to burn icepack.iso onto your CD, that won't work.

So, presumably you read my info on how to get an ISO and noticed that the ISO would not do you any good unless you have a CD burner, right?  I have a fairly old one, but it works.  I also have Easy CD Creator (yep, I actually bought this one and I like it).

-- although you'll be getting some new free CD burning software with your new linux! 

Easy CD Creator has a choice to make a CD from an image file.  You have to select this option and it is not the most obvious one.  Next, there's another little "trick" -- "ISO" image is not the default selection for Easy CD Creator because that is not the kind of image file it creates.  So, you have to change the default file type to "ISO" by using the down arrow button ...

Comment on CD burning -- I have a 4x CD burner and a Pentium II with 64 megs (not so hot now, but it was when I bought it ...)  This should work just fine for zapping through CDs at 4x, right???

Wrong -- and I have lots of wasted CD blanks to prove it.  Then one day I happened to read some important info on this.

Copying speed is not governed by the CD burner ability, so "4x" is only "4x" if the computer can keep up with that speed -- and that has to do with the buffer.  Way too technical for me, but the bottom line is that on my Pentium II, the buffer "overflows" at 4x and when that happens -- CD wasted.

So, I set my speed to 2x and when I do that I have lots less (like zero) CD failures.

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