Hi Paul, I got RecordNow CD writing software that came with my Dell pc. It dont have the option of buring the iso image. But I extracted the .iso file into directories and files using WinRAR. Now can i burn these directories and files into CD ?? will this work as my bootable CD or installation CD ? any idea ? Madhan > No, they won't. You'll need to burn all the CDs the same way. For a hard > drive > install, you can boot from the first CD and then tell the installer to use > the > ISOs for all four CDs from a hard disk partition, but you can't use this > for a > fully CD-based install. > > It's probably easiest for you just to burn the ISOs properly and use the > CDs. > See > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/e-smith/docs/howto/CD_burning_howto.php3 > for how to burn ISOs using a variety of popular CD-burning tools. > > Paul.