Linux Shrugged

Just completed my first Linux install. A third-grader could have done it (and probably quicker.) A live CD version of Beatrix. Encountered a few snags:

1. Firefox downloading would keep canceling when my screen saver started. (Found this free utility to handle just this problem, but ended up just doing a FTP download here to be safe.)

2. Needed to change bios boot order. Kept reacting to slowly to get in the CMOS setup. Finally figured out how to get the CD to boot first, but then I discovered...

3. I didn't have a bootable CD. Needed to burn the ISO to CD as bootable disk, but Windows XP doesn't do that. Auditioned several ISO burners -- this was the smallest, simplest, and easiest to use: BurnCDCC.

Finally figured it all out, got it loaded and running. Only problem -- nowhere to save data.

Now I'm intrigued by this. Then it's on to drive partitioning.