On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Thank you all for that helpful information. However, I have run into another 
> problem. I have mounted the first .iso file but I can not find where the 
> installation file--is it .sh or .exe?--is. Does anybody know what file to 
> look for in order to get this started, or point me to the documentation where 
> I can find this information?

Those disks don't assume that you have a working system.
They are designed for the system to boot from them,
which is usually done by setting the bios boot options to choice
optical disks before the hard disk, and then booting the machine with
the disk in the drive.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[log in to unmask]	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna