Linux Live CDs

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ok i have decided to try out linux, i downloded a live cd distribution, burned the iso file to a cd and tried to boot from it wont work! please tell me what i am doing wrong, and tell me how to do it correctly plz!

This video will show you how to run a Linux Distribution (Ubuntu, in this case) through a live CD. There are three parts to this video, and in the 2nd I tell you about how to get a live CD. Here is the website: www.ubuntu.com There, you can go to the side bar on the left side and select get Ubuntu. From there, you can either select download Ubuntu (which I wouldn’t recommend, unless you don’t like waiting for anything) and put it on a CD/DVD to run, or you can do what I did and select …

Everytime i boot, my pc always show this message:”error loading OS”…. how can i fix this?

it happened before and it was resolved my reformating by pc via installing linux because i cant access my pc by windows setup alone /*and i dont know why..*/ please help me….

my original OS is windows….. and i dont have bi-OS /*if thats the term… */ i dont really know how but last time it worked… and here’s the odd thing… i can access my files by linux live cd… /*knoppix*/… i really dont want to reformat my pc…./*as much as possible cos i 4got 2 backup my files!!! im so stupid!!!!*/ my programming assignments are there 4 gods sake!!! huhu… help me…

I want to be able to boot it from a DVD, I have a Compaq Presario v5000 series laptop, AMD Turion 64 ML-38 (1.8 ghz), 512 ram, 40 gigs free on the HD, 128 megs shared video ram, cant think of much more. But I just want to know what is the best distrobution of a Live CD Linux that is compatible with my system.

Ok, my BIOS recognizes that the hard drive is there, but when I go to boot, I get a screen that says “No Bootable Device”… I can boot ‘Live CD’s’ but cannot get to the HDD…Any suggestions? What I did proir to the problem was try to load Damn Small Linux over Suse. Any suggestions? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.