<snip> > Stick it in, reboot and you may need to invoke the BIOS or some other > boot menu to select the CD to boot from. Many computers ship with the > hard disk being the default boot device, and need to be tweaked to > boot from CD. Others have a menu which can be invoked with a single > keypress at boot time, from which you can select the boot device. More > recent devices can be booted not only from the internal hard disk and > an optical drive but also from a USB device. As such you can (using > special tools) copy a Live CD 'image' to a USB stick and boot from > that. This can be quicker than booting from CD, and is more portable.
To create a bootable USB stick from a live CD ISO image I can recommend Unetbootin, which is in the Ubuntu software archive (there is a Windows version of it as well if you prefer). I have to say that it's been a long time since I used a CD in this way, as using a USB stick is quicker and easier. Also a CD is not an option with my Netbook! ;-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
