Topic awaiting preservation: Bootable SuSE HeLP

Not exactly sure what the question is that I should be asking, so I'll just toss out a couple, maybe one of 'em is the right one.

K -- here I got this desire to migrate over to a *nix OS, and finally I've decided on going with SuSE, mainly because they have a Live Evaluation so you can make sure all the bits get along and play together well. So, I download the ISO for it, toss it on a cd (it's supposed to be bootable), reboot the computer (checking the bios for correct boot order), and the dang thing goes right back into XP. I'm using a cd-writer as the cd-drive, and though I can't remember the exact make, it does say 'JustLink" on the front...

Questions:

-- Is it possible my cd-drive (the cd-writer) doesn't do bootable? It auto-runs things fine when in OS, but seems like I remember having this same 'unable to boot from frigging cd' problem when trying to install XP (though my copy is of dubious origin). Is there some way to find out... I've googled JustLink but didn't really get closer to an answer. The drive is only about a year and a half old, so it seems to me it should do bootable things just fine.

-- Is it possible I've created the cd itself wrong? I just inserted the blank (memorex cd-r), into the drive, up popped a windows wizard asking if I wanted to burn the file. Usually I use Nero, but I'm no brain-child with that program either, so it would seem to me that both methods would accomplish the same thing. As I look at the D: drive the disk is labeled "SuSE-9.0-LiveEva" and if I click on it, it contains "SuSE-9.0-LiveEval-i386-Int-RC1.iso".
Is that right?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

When you make a CD from an ISO, you do not just copy the file onto the disk. I don't recall the menus in Nero, but you have to "make cd from image" or something like that, because that is what an ISO is - an image of what needs to be written to the disk.

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On some versions of Nero, the command is File > Burn Image. I think I remember that some older versions do not support the ISO extension though.
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[This message has been edited by jdauie (edited 11-16-2003).]

That did it... thx for the help!