That really depends on the maker of your computer. Normally, it's one of the "F" keys. Like F10, F11 or F12 (If the first doesn't work, just restart your computer and try again. If none of those work, try looking at one of these search results to see if you can find how to get to your computer maker's BIOS). You need to start pressing it when the computer begins to start up. Once you do, you need to look for something about the boot sequence and make your CD-ROM first.

You've got quite a few options. I'd personally sugest trying Xubuntu. It's a smaller version of Ubuntu Linux, which is also popular. You could run Ubuntu also. If you plan to use photo/video editing and stuff, Dyne:Bolic is good for that. There are tons of distros out there, it just depends on what you want to do.

 

 

 

If you want a small but fast distro, DSL is good, and so is Puppy.

 

 

 

And if you're interested, here is a page with some popular distributions.

 

 

 

Well, theres my 2 cents.

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I'm not exactly sure. I have it installed in my room, and it's media player MIGHT be able to do it..but if I were you, I would try Dyne:Bolic or even look at Puppy for watching Movies. I dont think DSL will do that. I might be wrong though, I haven't experimented much with multimedia through Linux yet.

 

 

 

EDIT: I said you might want to look at puppy, I take that back. You can if you want, but I got that mixed up with Xubuntu. I would think that Xubuntu or Ubuntu would let you view movies, but I'm not sure. I've only messed around extensively with DSL and Puppy, and I've used Dyne:Bolic a couple of times through a live cd.

I just started looking around on the intarwebz, and I found This post on some linux forums. This guy is using the Mandriva OS..which is on the page with the list of ditros I mentioned above.

I've had experience with Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Debian. All three are very nice indeed. It's a little unfortunate that Debian, my favourite out of the three, would be too complex at first if you're just starting on Linux.

 

 

 

Myself, I would recommend Kubuntu, purely because I'm not a fan of GNOME. :D